A crisp white Hudson's Bay Husky sits alert on the grass in this real photo postcard, its thick double coat and curled tail hallmarks of the working sled dog breed used across the Canadian Arctic. Mailed from California in the summer of 1908 alongside a companion card of an Oakland street scene, it's a small but vivid window into how far a Vancouver publisher's animal portraits could travel.

• Caption: "Hudson's Bay Huskie —"
• Publisher: Gowen, Sutton Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C.
• Postmark: Emeryville, Cal., August 27, 1908
• Status: Posted