This photo taken a century and two years ago, features either Yorkton High School students or teachers, or both. (Details are lacking.) They got together to have a photographer create a New Year's greeting card. They were 1. Jessie Cowan, 2. Jessie McPhee, 3.Josey Speers 4. Mary Livingstone 5. Effie Livingstone 6. Elva Switzer 7. Clara Ferguson 8. Lucy Speers 9. Helen Foster 10. Hilda Richard 11. Edith Patrick 12. Jenny Young 13. Margaret Livingstone 14. Margaret Foster 15. Hope Gowland 16. Lily Kilborn 17. Mary Foster 18. Ruby Gowland 19. Norma Chrysler 20. Mary Thompson.
The postcard was a quick method of communication. Most times, the image was also part of the message, especially if the postcard was one that an individual or group posed for, or had replicated from a photo of a building/s, event or scenery.
The postcard has been described this way:"They are the equivalent for their time to the text messaging, e-mail or cell phone communications of modern time: brief text, with a predominately visual component." (Quote from: WISH YOU WERE HERE: Saskatchewan Postcard Collections.)
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO OUR READERS!
Contact:Therese LefebvrePrince Heritage Researcher City of Yorkton Archives Box 400, 37 Third Avenue North Yorkton, Sask. S3N 2W3 306-786-1722 historian@yorkton.ca
