- 2008.001.320
- Item
- ca. 1920
Item is a photograph of a boy reclining beneath tent.
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Item is a photograph of a boy reclining beneath tent.
Item is a snapshot photograph of a boy holding small animal in palm of hand outside.
Item is a photograph of a boy holding two buckets, one in each hand.
Item is a photograph of a boy in Russian soldier costume.
Item is a photograph of a boy in a striped tank. Inscription on verso reads, '1929 Edwd (Sonny) Orr'.
Item is a photograph of a boy wearing swimcap standing near water with arms above his head.
Item is a snapshot photograph of a boy sitting outside on a railing at a pool. Inscription on verso reads, 'Me Oct '45'
Item is a photographic card with a photograph of a boy on skis. Inscription on recto reads, 'Best Christmas Wishes and happiness throughout the Year'.
Item is a snapshot of small boy playing with bucket. Inscription on verso reads, 'Bradie, 1 year 5 months Brome Lake July 1928'.
Item is a photograph of a boy sitting on rock. Inscription on verso reads, 'Thinking'.
Item is a photograph of a boy sitting on a porch step.
Item is a photograph of a boy sitting on steps.
Boy standing in front of house
Item is a photograph of a boy standing in front of house in the winter.
Item is a photograph of a boy sitting outside with a bucket.
Item is a snapshot photograph of a boy in cowboy hat holding toy gun in front of a shed. Inscription on verso in pencil reads, 'Stick-em-up'.
Item is a small snapshot portrait of boy outside with beveled edges.
Item consists of a photograph mounted on light grey card with diamond patterned texture. Image shows two rows of boys (and one older man in the first row) seated outdoors in front of a brick wall on the ground. A black dog is at the centre of the first row, and the boy on the right end of the first row holds a smaller dog in his lap.
Item is an albumen stereograph. Glossy image surface. Depicts a man standing on ramp with railroad tracks in front, fenced in corral behind. Recto ink inscription, lower left: "Branding - Texas."
Item consists of a photograph of a group of musicians with brass instruments (and 1 drum) posed on a residential street. They are all dressed like clowns. Photograph is mounted on a card backing, and handwritten on the verso, "g(?)".
Item consists of photographs of a trip to Brechin. The photos are taken in a rural farming area with subjects that include men and women, horses, hay, firewood, a log cabin, corn stalks, and cows.
Item consists of photographs of a family at Brechin. Subjects include family portraits and photographs with various farm animals including birds, horses, cats, and goats.
Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black. Handwritten in black ink on the slide "4249 Le Pont a Tragne" in french. In pencil looks like "Bohemia" is written below the ink. Cannot be sure that it is Tragne or Fragne, no trace of either. Handwritten on a sticker on the wood frame "Bridge at Tragne." Image of a town with a bridge and statue in foreground. Looks to be the start of the bridge, big covered archway. In BLC (white sticker facing you), you can see the ghost of people walking. Cannot find where bridge is, as not sure to the correct spelling of its name.
Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black and gold. Handwritten in ink on a sticker on the glass slide is "1752. Pont de Dresde..." in french, and the last word is difficult to read. Sticker on the wood frame of a Y. Image is of a the Dresden Bridge in Dresden, Germany. It goes over the Elbe river.
Scene of river and bridge between two little towns. More graphic than photographic. White text on bottom of image reads 'Khmer Keene' and 'Bidetord'. Raised letters read, 'Worcester' and 'Bristol'.
Black cover embossed with "photographs" in gold, bound with black string. Black pages. Notations in white ink. Photographs mounted using black photo corners. A few loose photographs. Many photographs missing.
Sites include: St. Mary's River, the Rockies, Kicking Horse River, Arrow Lakes, Harrison Lake, Stanley Park, Vancouver Tennis Clubhouse in Shaugnessy Heights, Rose Gardens in the Empress Hotel Grounds, Canadian National Park Wainwright, Saskatchewan wheat fields,
Locations include: Calgary, Field, Nakusp, Vancouver, the Malahat,
Themes include: portraits, scenic landscapes and waterscapes, gardening, early cars, animals, early tractors, rural farm life, wheat harvesting, houses, churches, early ferries.
Notable: President Harding in Stanley Park, 1923.
Broadway's drug store envelope for Mrs. Walter Buck
Of these family photos, one is written in ink on verso "- at Jessie (Wallace) Stanley's wedding."
Broadway's Drug Store
Item is a photograph of an unmarked building.
Mounted image of young man in a butcher shop.
Item is a full length portrait of girl on iceskates wearing a butterfly costume with wings spread. Imprint on surface reads, 'White Studio 48 Broadway, New York.' Inscription in pencil on back reads, '31, 98, 11'
White Studio
Brown padded leather cover with embossed diamond pattern. Missing spine. Front cover detached. Grey/silver pages with gilded edges. Window openings with border. Metal clasp and fabric binding.
Photographs consist of portraits, mostly studio portraiture.
Hard leather album with embossed design of a page turning on cover. Thick cardstock pages with openings for cabinet cards and cartes de visite. Sparsely populated, some tintypes. Mainly portraits from Quebec and United States.
Cabinet card and tintype album
Item consists of a dark blue album with the words "Scenes By the Way" written in white ink on the cover. Pages are grey with cutouts to slide in and hold photographs. Photographs consist of cartes de visite, cabinet cards and tintypes and are either loose or glued onto the pages. Some have captions written in fading white ink.
Photographs were taken at studios in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; New Westminster, British Columbia; Summerside, Prince Edward Island; Ottawa, Ontario; and Chicago, Illinois, and all consist of single-figure portraits.
Photographers and studios include: C. Lewis, E. R. Turner
Item is a paper cabinet card holder. Printed text on cover reads, 'Paid Book Post, Printed Matter only'. Blue stamp reads, 'Star Office, Feb 5 1895. Inscription in ink reads, 'Lady Traveller Star Office Montreal'. Text on back cover reads, 'Wm. Notman & Son Photographers to the Queen 17 Bleury Street Montreal. Branches in United States. Boston, Mass. Albany, NY. Newport, R.I. Branches in Canada, Halifax, N.S. St. John, N.B. Ottawa, Ont.
William Notman & Son
Black clothe-covered wire and metal cable release.
Shields, Lorne
Gelatin silver prints of various settings in California on either side of a cardboard mount. Inscriptions in ink read, 'Trunkee River Nevada Mountains' and 'Santa Barbara Pier' and 'Ocean, Delmonte' and 'Boring Maetime for hot water, Nevada Mountains' and 'Ocean Beach, Delmonte, Mrs. Clifton in trap' and 'View of club house centre, Santa Barbara' and 'Mrs. Clifton, in front of Delmonte hotel, Mr. Clifton' and 'View of (illegible)' and 'Sample of American advertisements in some gardens, Pasadena' and 'Pacific Ocean View, Monteray' and 'Seals on Rocks, Pacific Ocean Beach, Monterey' and 'Seals on Rocks, Monterey' and 'Pacific Grove Ocean Beach'. Inscription in pencil reads, 'Sita, $60'
Brown cover, edges flaking, tied with brown string. Notations in pencil and blue ink on black pages.
Sites include Monterey, CA; Santa Ana City Hall; San Juan Capistiano; Laguna Beach; Yosemite National Park;
Themes include: early cars; portraits, houses, moving houses [using early trucks to physically move the house].
No cover, no binding. Black pages. Edges of pages flaking, torn and falling apart. Handle with care. Photographs mounted using black photo corners. Some loose photographs. Many photographs missing. No notations, no dates. Some photographs fading; some photographs show signs of damage - looks as if something spilled on them.
Locations include: Ocean Park, California
Sites include: Sons of England memorial (city location unknown).
Themes include: portraits, scenic views and landscapes, animals.
Brown suede cover slip with some sort of faded decorative drawing; slipped over maroon hard-cover. Grey pages. Some photograph peeling away from pages; protective paper inserted between pages. A few lose photographs. Many pages left blank.
Themes include portraits, horse-drawn carriages, landscapes, waterscapes.
Includes a photograph of B. Heyman Furniture Co. in Phoenix, Arizona while located at the Anderson building on the northwest corner of Washington and 1st Street. The Anderson Building was built in 1888 and lasted until the 1980's. Also includes a photograph of Davidson's Cash Store, believed to be in Phoenix, Arizona c. 1902.
Leather edged cover, detached binding. Contains photographs and pressed flowers. Lengthy notations in black ink. More of a journal with photographs. Vast majority of pages are blank.
Themes of photographs include early trains and railways, portraits, scenic views.
Includes some loose photographs and pressed flowers; also includes printed photographic reproductions from journals adhered to pages;
Sites include: Catalina Isl, Mualon Bay.
Six gelatin silver prints on either side of a cardboard mount. Images of the parliament building in Victoria, B.C, loggers, Beacon Hill Park Victoria, B.C., an onion farm, a sweet pea farm and a harbor. Inscriptions in pen read, 'Onion Farm, California, Sweet Pea Farm'. Inscriptions in pencil read '$50 - 23' and 'SITA'.
Calling card and confirmation card
Confirmation ticket for Lillian Constance Orr from Holy Trinity Curch in Chatham, Ontario, and calling card for Mrs. Alfred E. Orr.
Cameras and optical devices series
Series consists of camera models, from individually hand-crafted to mass-produced, and camera equipment, including filters, light meters, and timers, and darkroom equipment, including enlargers, chemicals, and printing papers. Several non-photographic optical devices are also found in this series, including two toys, a mono print viewer, and a stereo film viewer.
Item is a photograph of men smoking and eating at a camp in the mountains.
Item is a photograph of men at camp in the mountains.
Item is a photograph of men cooking and eating at a camp.
Green fabric cover with embossed black stripes and silver lettering, "Photographs". White pages with four window openings per side. Windows have decorative border. Red fabric bindings are intact. Some hand colouring. Some photographs very faded.
Themes include landscapes, portraits, houses and buildings, camping, early bicycles, dogs and cats, horses and carriages.
Locations include the Boston Stone in Boston, Massachusetts.
Black cover album with black pages bound by black braided string. The word "Photographs" is embosed on front cover in gold lettering. Photographs held in with black photo corners.
Photographs are mostly family snapshots, on the beach, at home, having a picnic and by the lake; some include domestic animals. Some photographs taken Ottawa, and Niagara Falls, and at Balboa Island, California, among other destinations.
Photo stores include Thompson's Camera and Art Store.
Date on the back of a loose photograph says "Apr. / 30".
Unbound, black pages. Notations in white ink and pencil. Mostly scenic and landscape photographs; small number of architectural photographs and environmental portraits.
Locations: Moore's Falls, Elliott Falls, Black River, Norland Dam, Toronto Bay, Montmorency Falls, Mud Turtle Lake.
Places: Toronto University, Legislative Chamber in Parliament Building, Osgood Hall Library, City Hall Main Entrance.
Themes: landscape, lakes, sailboat, architecture.
Item consists of a brown album with gold embossing and darker brown detailing. Item has part of a metal clasp on right of cover. Pages are white with gold embossing and sleeves with cutouts to insert the photographs into. Spine is torn and in very poor condition.
Photographs are all carte de visite size, and there are 5 tintypes in paper mats spread throughout the album. Some are hand-coloured. They are all portraits, some are labeled in pencil or black ink on the back of or below the photograph with the subject's name and sometimes a date. The photographs were taken accross Canada in Charlottetown, Montreal, Halifax, Pictou, Ottawa, and others as well as Boston, Washington D.C., New York and Auckland New Zealand. Some of the studios that made the photographs in this album are the Notman Studio, Brady's National Portrait Galleries, James Inglis, and J.W. Black. Photographers include C.S. Lewis and Tanton.
Loose materials include: photographs, tintypes in individual envelopes.
Shields, Lorne
Album is brown with embossed leather cover, brown fabric binding. White pages with window openings and gold borders. Contains 22 albumen photographs.
Black cover and fabric spine. White notebook pages ruled in red and blue. Photographs mounted on pages with glue, on one side of page only.
Four images on either side of cardboard mount. Two photomechanical images of mountain views in Canada. One photomechanical image of seals on rocks and one albumen portrait of an unidentified captain. Inscription in blue ink reads, 'Canada'. Inscription in pencil reads, 'SITA $100' and 'Notman'
Candian Timber Structures Ltd business card
Item is a business card for Canadian Timber Structures Ltd., Engineering in Wood, presented by Charles B. Miller.
Mounted image of man at a behind the counter in a candy store.
Two pairs of photographs originally grouped together. Two photographs are of a girl seated on a miniature chaise longue in front of garden wall, and two photographs are of the interior of Canterbury Cathedral. The cathedral photographs have both been written on verso in pencil "Canterbury Cathedral," and individually in ink, "Presbytery and Archbishop Bourchier's Tomb" and "Effigy of the Black Prince from his Tomb."
Shields, Lorne
matte gsp with white border. Depicts an aerial view of prividence Rhode Island, centred on the state capitol building and surrounding area. Recto caption, bottom left: "(070-886I-8)(5-25-32-1P)(12-2000) CAPITAL, PROVIDENCE, R.I."
Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.
matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of Washington D.C. centred on the capitol building. Supreme court building is seen under construction. Recto caption, bottom edge: "19-851-8)(8-1-32-2P)(12-2000) Capitol Bldg. Washington, D.C."
Card frame with oval opening painted gold
Card mount with oval opening and gold paint, meant to cover and frame a card mounted photograph. Tape on verso of card used to hold it to the back of the mount.
Card mount meant to accompany image in 2008.001.1450.1
Item is a cabinet card portrait of Carrie Hapgood, actress.
Waters, H.
Item is a decorated hard cover album (CDV album). Closes with clasps. Album pages are beige with open slots for photographs. Hand-painted flowers frame the openings on every page. Gold trimmed. Contains tintypes and albumen cartes-de-visite.
Item is a photograph album with an ornate green cover with clasp. Contains 22 photographs, including albumen and collodion prints.
Brown leather cover embossed with black and gold designs. Spine also embossed with stripes and lettering- "Album." Simple metal clasp. Front leaf and title page included. White pages with window opening and gold border. Brown fabric binding.
Album is purple embossed leather cover with metal clasps. Spine missing. White pages with gold borders around window openings. Contains 26 albumen photographs.
Item is a photograph album with an ornate cover and metal clasps. Gold trimmed pages with openings to insert the CDVs. Spine in very poor condition; some torn pages; one loose photograph. Contains 26 gelatin silver and albumen photographs.
Many pages are empty. One loose photograph. Photographs consist of portraits; some with animals such as dogs or horses.
Photo studios include McMillan, Ontario and J Nicol Photographer, Nairn.
Item is a carte-de-visite album with an ornate brown cover. Gold trim pages. Includes 47 photographs, albumen cartes-de-visite, tintypes and gelatin silver prints.
Leather bound album with gold trim and the title "ALBUM" printed on spine. Metal clasp. Thick cardstock pages coloured light blue with openings for inserting cartes de visite. Sparsely populated by card photographs from Notman Studios and others in Ontario and Quebec.
Item is a photograph album with a purple cover and gold and black embossed letters and design. Fabric bindings, white pages with gilded edges. Window openings surrounded by gold floral design. Silver clasp. Includes 14 albumen and gelatin silver photographs and photomechanical reproductions.
Item is a photograph album with ornate red cover album with pages trimmed with gold. Album closes with a clasp. Contains cartes-de-visite and tintypes, some hand-painted.
Carte de visite and tintype album
Brown leather cover and metal clasp; back cover's part of the clasp is missing. Front cover detached; missing spine; binding broken in several places. White pages with two window openings on each side, with gold borders. Pages have gilded edges. Several tintypes have hand colouring.
Photographs consist of portraits. Many photographs missing.
Photo studios include: Richardson in Brooklyn, E.D.; Chas Weiffle Photographer, N.J.
Item is a mounted albumen photograph of a castle and its reflection in the water. Inscription in pencil on back of mount reads, '5-'
Celebrity portraits sub-series
\li720Sub-series identifies portraits of famous persons or identifiable historical figures. Often these portraits were mass produced on a durable card backing for a commercial market.
Football team portrait. The well-ordered players are standing on stone steps. Hand-lettered on the front of the grey card mount is "Central High / 1927." Written in black ink on verso of card mount is "Left to Right, Front row: Clyde Clancy, Harold Pollack, Jim Connolly, Johnny Wright, Harlan Haulman, Gilbert Edwards; Middle Row: Parley Hyde, Moorhead Tukey, Peter Sawerbrey, 'Auroea' Nelson, Clary Johnson, Les Huff, Graham Cooksey; Back Row: John Epplen, Mgr., Elmo Pace, Roscoe Haynie, Bud Levin, Glenn Cackley, J. G. Schmidt, coach." A faded grey studio stamp reads "Dewell, commercial photographer, (...) 321 (...) Omaha."
Nathaniel Lee Dewell
Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black and gold. Sticker on glass handwritten in ink "550 Chambre de Bustes au Vatican." Sticker on wood in ink "Chamber of Busts Vatican Rome Italy" same in pencil on wood frame. Image of inside the chamber of busts in the Vatican, walls lined with statues/busts.
Item is a carte de visite size portrait of Charles Dickens sitting at a desk, staring into space with pen in hand.
Item is a carte de visite portrait of Charles Wood (1856-1945), English flat racing jockey.
Brown embossed cover, bound with green string. Photos held with black photo corners. Individual portraits show naked women in variety of settings such a studio and outdoors.
Consists of images of nude women of multiple heritage, including Chinese, Japanese, USA, Hawaii.
Some photos have copyright symbol printed onto photographs.
Mounted image of people and carriages in front of large stone building. Text in white at bottom of image reads, 'Windham Centre Cheese Factory'.
Chevrolet Toronado (car sub-series)
Glossy gsp, white border. Depicts a car with man and woman standing behind it, outdoors, with a brick wall and trees in the background. Recto caption printed in photograph: "Toronado - A Chevrolet Experiemental Car on Exhibit at General Motors Futurama New York World's Fair." Verso crop lines and inscriptions in pencil. Vero top right: "55/mm-July"; centre: "20 picas"; bottom right: "1186," "36.3," "$15."
Item is a snapshot photograph of a boy in an animal costume straddling a doghouse. Inscription reads, 'Al'.
Item consists of a photograph of a group fo children standing on the steps and in the path in front of a wooden house, the men's dormitory in a factory compound. On verso, handwritten in pen, "A children's meeting I attend every Saturday/ afternoon in the big spinning factory/ which employs 1000 people. The/ children belong to families who live in the/ factory compound & we hold our meeting/ at their request in the recreation rooms/ of the men's dormitory. I play the baby organ./ You would think I had a cross over my head./ I don't know what it is sticking up there."
photomechanical print of painting mounted on card. Depicts castle, lake with sailboat, surrounded by mountains. Recto caption, bottom right: "Direnmann & Zurich." Recto inscription, bottom: "Chillon."
Christmas card from Dal and Shirley Grauer and the children
Cream card with blue and pink colour patches highlighting the words "Merry Christmas" and the date "1956". The family's address is printed sideways up the front of the card, and the parent's names are given at the bottom. Inside, the phrase "and the children....." is added to the inside left, while a black and white photograph of 6 children is pasted onto the right.
Item is a photograph of a large group of people indoors in front of a Christmas tree. Inscription on verso reads, 'Kap Christmas Party, 1948'.
Item is a photograph os a Christmas tree.
Item is a cabinet card copy portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck, German opera composer of the early classical period.
Williams, Sophus, 5 July 1835-18 October 1900
Chromatrope devices consist of a wood frame, a metal winding mechanism, a tiny wood crank handle, and colour-patterned layers of glass that, when turned, resemble the optical effects of a kaleidoscope. Used for projection.
Brewster, David
Church of the Theatine, Munich
Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Sticker with a Y on wood frame. Handwritten in ink on sticker on the glass "6240 Church of the Theatine, Munich." Printed on sticker is "Levy & Cie Sucrs de Ferrier, P.F. and Soulier - Paris." On opposite side of slide, written in gold letters "49 Nassau Street, New York." The initials CS in bottom left corner (stickers to you) on actual image. Image is of a church dome with two spires.
Mounted image of city square. Black text below image reads, 'P.O.P'. Inscription in pencil on back of mount reads, 'Specimen $6.00'
Image of city street with a trolley running in it. The trolley's sign reads, 'Kalihi - Waikiki'.
Class portrait of co-eds and rabbi of the "Cleveland Jewish Center, Confirmation -- Class of 1946 .. 5706" is a photomontage of 51 captioned portrait ovals arranged alphabetically.
Ben Strauss
Mounted image of an outdoor scene, the edge of a small cliff against the water with a canoe in the foreground. Stamp on image reads, 'Paget "Gravura" Prize'.
Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Handwritten on sticker on glass "Church Cologne," but the words are difficult to decipher. Sticker of a Y on wood frame. Image of a town, view of rooftopes, a square, a man with horse & buggy, a church in the background.
Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black. Handwritten in ink on a sticker on the glass slide is "2285 Cathedral of Cologne," and in print above "J. Levy & Cie. Suc. de Perrier P.F. & Soulier, Paris." Sticker on wood frame of a Y. Image is of the Cologne Cathedral in Germany.
Columbia University, New York City, N.Y.
matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of university campus and surrounding area. Signs across river read: "Palisade Amusement Park, Surf, Bathing," "The National Sugar Refining Co., Jack Frost Sugars." Recto caption, bottom left, in white: "(0305-876A-8)(2-27-33-1:00P)(12-2000) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y."
Cream card with photograph of an engraving, with title "COME ALONG DO!" Image shows man and woman walking through a gallery or nude statues. Photographer's stamp at bottom of card, in black letterpress, "Mason New York". On verso, in pencil, "6.50 DATED" with arrow drawn pointing to a pencil in a different hand, "1883./ Old Man may your thoughts [illeg.] fun./ So Come along."
Lantern slide, glass slide in thinner wood frame. Image area is circular, though in square glass. Image is hand coloured perhaps from an engraving. Printed on slide "Coming Thro' The Rye" and "Crystal Magic Lantern Slide." Sticker of a Y on frame. Image is of a woman and a man embracing, the man kissing the woman, a field behing them. It is an illustration representing the poem "Coming Thro' The Rye" by Robert Burns (1759-1796), composed 1796.
Item is a notebook filled with hand written text, including quotations and prose. Cover reads: "Common Place Book / Cookshire Oct 24th 1880 / A.E. Orr / Yours truly Yours truly"
Item is a cabinet card composite portrait of approximately 88 men. Black ink circles eight of these portraits. Inscription to the left of photograph reads, 'Paris - 1895? (illegible)'. Text below photograph reads, Wm. Notman & Son - Montreal'. Text on back of card reads, 'W. Notman Montreal 1876'.
William Notman & Son
Composite photograph of professors in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Michigan
Item is a cream coloured card with gold border and a series of oval-shaped portraits arranged in an oval around two central oval portraits. Names of individuals have been lightly added in pencil, clockwise from top: [illeg.], Palmer, Lusker(?), none given, none given, [illeg.], Douglass." Across bottom, also in pencil, "Med. Faculty Mich. University 1868". On verso, in black letterpress, at centre, "R.D. PALMER,/ PHOTOGRAPHER,/ And Portrait Painter,/ Huron Street, East of Cook's Hotel,/ ANN ARBOR, MICH." And below, "Negatives preserved, Copies enlarged in India Ink or Oil."
R.D. Palmer