Glance at the past: 1000s of historical Winnipeg postcards donated to city
Martin Berman postcard collection now available online for public to see
A treasure trove of historical postcards of Winnipeg is now available to the public.
The Martin Berman postcard collection, donated to the city by Berman's family, has been added to PastForward, the City of Winnipeg's digital cache of public history.
Berman was an avid collector of historical Winnipeg postcards, amassing more than 5,000 of them. The public library has scanned them all and is in the process of adding them to the PastForward website where you can browse the collection.
The physical collection has been sent for safekeeping to the city's archives and records control branch.
An official launch of the collection with a discussion about the historical importance of postcards and the stories they tell will be hosted today by Rob McInnes, owner of the McInnes postcard collection on PastForward, at the Millennium Library in the Carol Shields Auditorium, 11 a.m. until noon.
The collections on the PastForward site include city directories from 1880 to 1965 and over 1,500 images of Winnipeg. You can browse through history, look for familiar places or people, and add your own comments to enrich the site. All content on PastForward is in the public domain and are available to download, print and share, the city says.