Mimico Asylum (Lakeside Sanatorium)
- CA LGIC ARC-2018.012.01
- Item
- 1909
Part of Archival Collection
Front: Coloured, printed postcard. Depicts about a blue sky with some white clouds, eight red brick buildings with blueish-grey roofs, a large field, and 13 cricket players. The field is green but at the forefront of the image, there is a gravel path. The cricket players are all dressed in white. “Mimico Asylum (Lakeside Sanitorium), Toronto, Canada” is in printed text on top right. Bottom right of the image reads “JV” in a circle with the number “104,072”. Top half of the postcard (horizontal) has a handwritten message in black, faded ink.
Back: Printed text at top middle reads “Souvenir Post Card.” To the left of the postage stamp is a postmark that reads “Milton West, AM, OC 13, 09, ONT”. Bottom right has handwritten address for receiver. Left half of back has handwritten message, upside down. Left side underneath written message is printed text which reads “The Valentine & Sons Publishing Co., Ltd. Montreal and Toronto. Printed in Great Britain.” It bears a 1903 King Edward VII 3/4 profile 1 cent stamp.
The Valentine & Sons Publishing Co. Ltd.