THE KÜTNE READER

Before airplanes became common, a fascinating cohort of stuntwomen barnstormed fall fairs, earning a living by parachuting from hot air balloons.

A look at lost buildings in the rarely-photographed 600 block of Ward Street.

Who won a soccer match between Sandon and New Denver immortalized on a postcard?

Attaching a dummy to the side of your building and putting a sign on its back was apparently a novel way to advertise at the turn of the 20th century.

Presenting six rare or never-before-seen postcards of Waneta recently sold online and probably dating to the 1910s.

Wherein I try to figure out more about a woman depicted on a postcard — and reveal some puzzling findings about a murdered brothel keeper.

A few curious things: a dog behind the wheel, a basketball team named the Comincos, and Yale University helps tear down buildings in Trail.

Long before Photoshop, postcard publishers were using airbrushes and other tools to alter images.

A terrific, rare postcard of Ainsworth sold last month on eBay. Here’s a closer look at some of the buildings depicted.

What is a Kootenay Avenue doing in Southampton, England? I have a theory.

A couple of postcards sold on eBay, both mailed in 1908 to a Miss Kitty Hope of Sandon. Who was she?

A look at the development of Ainsworth Hot Springs resort from the 1930s to the '60s as seen through ephemera.

Seven rare postcards of Fruitvale have been sold on eBay over the last few months by four different dealers, for a collective price of $673

In 1910, a remarkable curved bridge was built at Salmo across a slough formed by the Salmo River.

A love story involving an Italian-Canadian miner from Nelson, his Cornish bride, and the postcard that brought them together.

Some of the earliest picture postcards of Nelson (seen below) look west down the Kootenay River with the corner of a pond in the foreground. The latter was the Park Street reservoir, which sat between Observatory and Gore streets on the north and south and between Park and Cherry streets on the west and east. It was just below the present Nelson-Salmo Great Northern Trail, formerly the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway. It has long since been decommissioned, but it might surpr

The remarkable postcard seen below sold in 2020 on eBay for $168 Cdn. It’s a previously unknown image of the Patrick Lumber Camp No. 1...

The rare postcard below, which sold recently on eBay, shows the Burns Block at 560 Baker Street (formerly 514 Baker) in Nelson — although if the photo had been cropped any tighter on the right, it might have been impossible to recognize. The postcard is unmailed, but probably from about 1910. Fortunately, the distinctive ornamentation of the steer’s head and 1899 date stone above the front door is partly visible. This building was the Kootenay headquarters of Alberta beef bar

A few outstanding postcards and photos sold recently on eBay showing Nelson sports teams, one of which was an action shot of a lacrosse...

A terrific postcard popped up on eBay recently, showing the A. MacDonald & Co. warehouse at 623-25 Front Street in Nelson, ca. 1910 —...