Lake District travel writing and the picturesque way of framing nature “to look well in a...
Wordsworth Country in the Pacific Northwest
The postcards in this section of the exhibit are from the Philip Francis British Postcards Collection and the British Columbia Postcards Collection at SFU.
The Philip Francis British Columbia Postcards Collection at SFU includes nearly 13,000 postcards generously donated to the SFU Library by Philip Francis in 2014. Nearly 6,000 of the postcards in this collection have been digitized and made available online through the assistance of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre's "B.C. History Digitization Program."
The British Columbia Postcards Collection is an historically significant collection of over 6,000 B.C. postcards that visually and vividly capture a wide array of places, people, events, industries, geographic landmarks, architectural highlights, modes of transportation – all associated with British Columbia. Many are from the "golden age" of postcards, 1900 to 1920, as well as the period from 1920 until WW2. For more information see the BC Postcards digital collection.
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 William Wordsworth wrote in 1810 that the English Lake District should be preserved as a... |
 To the west of Banff National Park lies the village of Windermere. Scottish-born businessman... |
 Stanley Park is one of the world’s oldest and largest urban green spaces. In the spirit of... |
 Postcards celebrating the natural beauty of Stanley Park tried to emulate the kind of pleasing... |
Canadian First Nations author Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), also known as... |
 Few Vancouverites today know that Windermere Street is a remaining trace of a colonial tourist... |
 The early twentieth-century postcards on display here show picturesque scenes from around... |