Lot #829: Vintage 1930s Canada "AZO Real Photograph" Postcard - "Upper Bathing Beach, Trail, B.C." - AZO Real Photo (Squares in 4 corners)

Vintage 1930s Canada "AZO Real Photograph" Postcard, unused, showing adult and child on rocky, treed beach, with caption "Upper Bathing Beach, Trail, B.C.". White outer border. The publisher is not indicated, but the reverse does state "Post Card. Made in Canada" with a stamp box composed of "AZO" four times, with square in each corner. No Stamp. Never postally used. No message. The presence of the AZO stamp box with squares in all four corners combined with the "Made in Canada" imprint is a precise diagnostic. This AZO configuration was utilized between 1924 and 1949. The typography of "Post Card" on the reverse suggests a mid-to-late 1930s production. While the publisher isn't named, "Made in Canada" RPPCs from this region were frequently produced by firms like Gowen Sutton Co. Ltd. of Vancouver or independent local photographers who sent their negatives to large Canadian labs for processing on Kodak stock. The subject of this card (the Upper Bathing Beach, Trail, B.C.) captures a "snapshot" of life in a town dominated by the Cominco (now Teck) smelter. The "rocky, treed beach" is characteristic of the Columbia River shoreline. In the 1930s, these "Upper" and "Lower" beaches were essential civic escapes for the smelting plant workers and their families. This AZO Real Photo (Squares in 4 corners) thus likely dates to the Interwar era (c. 1930–1939). Dimensions: 9 mm x 14 mm Pickup category timeslot {A}