I've been neglectful of my poor Tumblr lately, but here I...

I've been neglectful of my poor Tumblr lately, but here I am back with a tribute to "spring." Completely predictable, I know, but "spring" means a lot of things, so it's surprising the variety you get when you run it as a keyword through a database — which I've done here with the Library and Archives Canada one. The first thing that struck my eye in the search results was this…. class lacrosse card, of, apparently, a player named "C. Spring." What follows is the information on the collection it comes from:

There are 20 hockey cards, & 66 lacrosse cards bearing pictures of players from different teams.

These cards were placed in cigarette packages c. 1910-12 and were collected just as hockey & baseball cards from bubble gum packages are today.

The cards were collected by an uncle of the donor.

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1974-42-79 Source: gift of Mr. C.J. Haynes, Ottawa, Ontario.

Copyright: Expired

More "spring" images from the Library and Archives Canada in the days to come.