Black cardboard cover with gold embossed letters "Photographs"; image on cover. Spine missing but stitched binding intact. Black pages.
Photographs of aerial exhibitions at Texas Love Field Air Corps Training Depot on November 12 and 13, 1918 to celebrate the end of WWI. Fairly detailed notations included as text printed directly onto the images. Images show pilots and early airplanes, photographs of blimps; select number of aerial photographs of the land with respective geographic locational coordinates, crowds of spectators, parachute jump - with flags, images of airplane crashes. Most photographs taken from the air.
silde covered in glass held together with black tape at edges. Depicts man in welding mask operating piece of machinery. Recto inscription top, on label: "Automatic Aluminum Pipe Welding Machine."
Item consists of photographs of a family taken at Atherley. Subjects include water bodies, a canoe, the Samuel de Champlain monument (in present day Orillia and designed by Vernon March), a house, and a cow.
unmounted print with white border. Depicts a pilot standing in front of a plane. Recto inscription "Arrow Sport - LeBlond - List $3485 - '29" Verso inscription "Arrow Sport- '29, Side by side seating. LeBlond 5 engine. Demonstrator with 25 hours- 1500. New- $2000, list 3485 FOB Lincoln."
Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black and gold. Sticker on wood handwritten in ink "arches of Triumph Egypt Pompeii." Printed direclty of slide "7669 Arcs de Triomphe et Rue du Forum, a Pompei." Same written on wood in pencil. Image of arches and road with some ruins.
Lantern slide, wood frame with glass positive B & W slide - image framed in black. Handwritten in ink on sticker on the slide is "Arc de Titus a Rome" but the word Titus is scratched out and written over top is the word Constantine. Image of an arch with the colloseum in the background, to the right. Wood frame has the word constantine written in pencil above image.
American actress, burlesque performer. She is recorded as having performed in "Our Cinderella: A Burlesque" by William Gill in the Colville Company's 1878-9 season, and in "The Magic Slipper" for Haverley's Theater in New York in August 1879, produced by Samuel Colville's Opera Burlesque Company.
Item is a portrait of young woman. Black text on back of card reads, 'Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco, United States, The World, Vienna 1873 Gold Medals, 429 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Cal.' Inscription in pencil reads, 'Anna G.'
Mounted image of bridge over river in Amsterdam. Inscription in black ink beneath photograph reads, 'Amsterdam, eglise St. Francois Xavier & pont sur le canal'. Inscription in pencil on back of mount reads, '$20'
Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black. Sticker on glass handwritten in black ink "11667 Amphitheatre a Pompei" in french. Written in pencil on the wood frame "Amphitheatre Pompei." Image of an amphitheatre - ruins, in Pompeii.
Black cover with an eagle made of shell in 3D on cover. Very fragile. Hard cover. Black pages with photos held in with photo corners. Interleaving between each page.
Consists of a large album with black and white photographs of a military base in Hawaii. Includes individuals and group shots of men in military uniforms, images of the landscape and military equipment and buildings, women on a beach and a partially nude woman posing for the camera.
Item is a professional portrait of Alfred Thorburn Orr. Inscriptions on verso read, 'I certify this to be a true photograph of: Alfred Thorburn Orr Jun. 22 1966. Hodgkiss Studios 3 Adelaide St. E. Toronto, Ont. EM 6-5342'.
Item is a snapshot photograph with a decorative border of two small boys sitting on a blanket in the woods. Inscription on verso in blue ink reads, 'Alfred T. Orr and Edward del Orr'.
Item is a photograph with a decorative border, featuring an image of two small boys sitting on a blanket outdoors. Children identified as Alfred T. Orr and Edward del Orr from other photographs in the collection.
Series consists of albums on a variety of subjects, but all are personal in nature, created by individuals or families. Many focus on geographic locations as subjects of a tour. Some WWI and WWII family and military tour records.
matte gsp with white border, mounted on brown thick paper. Brown cord hanger threaded through two holes at top edge. Recto caption, bottom left image area: "9 Aire Bridge, Kildwick."
glass-covered slide with silver paper mat and black tape around the edges. Depicts a worker with welding mask working using a kind of gun. Recto inscription in black ink on white label: "Aircomatic Midget Gun."
A leather bound cabinet card album with a metal adornment on the front cover, designed like a shield and engraved with the words "Minne" and "…at" along with the owner's name: "Agnes Osberg". Inside front page is printed in German "Von dankbaren Elewen" and Swedish "Nääs 19/12 1892." Many sitters are identified and portrait photographers whose card texts are visible areidentified as Swedish and American.
Item consists of a sepiatone black and white photograph of a man and a dog at midnight in Nome, Alaska. The man appears to be standing on a porch with his hands in his pockets. He is wearing a long dark coat, glasses and a hat. There are binoculars around his neck. There is a dog in the foreground, at the feet of the man. There is an uneven white border around the image and at the bottom of the photograph is written "AZ Watson Taken at Midnight" in pen. On the back of the photograph in pencil is handwritten "Taken at Nome Alaska at 12 oclock at night continuous light sun set at 10.20 pm June 21st 1902".
Series consists of photographs and negatives that belonged to Mr. A.T. Orr and his family. Series also contains several business cards of Mr. Orr's, some of his personal correspondence, newspaper clippings pertaining to birth and wedding announcements, a hymnal, and a lock of Florence E. Orr's hair. Design plans for the Montreal Light Heat & Power Co. are also found in the series.
Item features two portraits side by side of same man in different outfits. Black text below photographs reads, 'A.T. Orr c/o Jerry Lodge Associates Ltd. 105 Carlton St, Toronto, 2, Ont. 363-0022'
Glossy gelatin silver prints with white border. Depicts car parked ouside palatial structure, man and woman walking towards car. Recto bottom right in blue pen: " '66 Chevrolet Caprice A". Verso inscriptions include various cropping marks and arrows in pencil, as well as upper right "55/mm Nov. '65," middle "26 picas," bottom right "98"; "49.5%"; "9771"; "$12"; "100 SCR zinc half." Verso bottom right in blue pen: "5"; "GM- Chevrolet '66 'Caprice'."
Item consists of a photograph mounted on grey card. Image shows a group of men seated outside a large brick building with a wooden sign high above their heads "HER-/ SPILLMAN/ THE/ ONLY/ BUILDERS/ OF/ IMPROVED/ 1873-1890" with the image of a carousel painted on the sign. The front row of the group holds up a wooden sign that reads "2ND ANNUAL OUTING/ OF HERSCEHLL SPILLMAN & CO'S/ EMPLOYEES JULY 3RD 1902." At bottom right, embossed in card, "L. H. Linh-pf(?)/ TONAWANDA, N.Y."
glossy gelatin silver prints with white border. Car depicted in black studio setting with man and woman standing behind it. Recto bottom left corner in pencil: "2." Verso inscriptions and cropping lines in pencil. Verso top right: "55/mm-Nov. '65." Verso centre: "26 picas." Verso bottom right: "100 scr. zinc half."; "98"; "49.5%"; "9771"; '$12." Verso bottom righ tin blue ink: "4- GM- Pontiac Parisienne Sport Coupe- '66"
Glossy gsp with white borders. Car depicted from slightly above. It is parked at the edge of a lake. A woman sits inside waving to a man in the water. Recto inscription bottom left, in grease pencil: "2" Verso inscriptions include cropping marks in pencil- Verso top right: "55/mm-Nov.'65"; centre: "24 picas"; bottom right: "$10." Verso inscriptions in blue ink- top right: "'66 Valiant Signet"; bottom right: "8". Verso paper printed with pattern reading "a Kodak paper."
Glossy gsp, white border. Car seen from side depicted in a fields with treed background. The car has a "B" hood ornament. Recto inscription, black grease pencil, bottom left: "2." Verso top right has pasted-on label with typed instructions: "Bentley 'T' Series Not For Publication until October 6, 1965. See Release Herewith." Verso inscriptions in pencil- top right: "55/mm-Nov.'65"; centre: cropping lines, "24 picas"; bottom right: "110," "42.8%," "9771," "100 scr. 3inc half," "$20." Verso inscriptions in blue ink- bottom centre: "10," "for 1966- Bentley 'T' Series."
Glossy gsp with white borders. Man and women depicted sitting in a car white two children run towards it. The setting is a tree-lined grassy field. Recto inscription in ink, bottom left: "Vauxhall B Viva 2" Verso inscriptionsin pencil: cropping marks; top right: "55/mm-april"; centre: "20 picas"; bottom left: "'65 Vauxhall Viva deLuxe"; bottom right: "120, "37.5%," "5546," "$10."
glossy gsp with large white border. Depicts a car seen from the sie, a man and woman standing behind it, and a patio table and umbrella to the right. Recto inscription in black ink, bottom left: "2." Verso has cropping lines in pencil. Verso inscriptions in pencil- top right: "55/mm-Nov '61"; centre: "28 1/2 picas"; bottom left: "57%, '62 Olds F-85"; bottom right: "$10". Verso in blue ink, bottom right: "B245"
glossy gelatin silver prints with white border. Image of car on desert landscape, shot with door open and woman in front passenger seat. Car liscence plate reads 1962. Inset image shows gear shift and driver's interior. Recto bottom left in black ink: "2." Verso inscriptions in pencil include cropping markings. Verso upper right: "55/mm-May"; "Mortise for type." Verso centre: "27 1/2 picas." Verso bottom left: "48.5 Ford Galaxie 500 XL." Verso bottom right; "$12." Verso bottom right in blue ink: 'B590."
Glossy gsp with white border. Car depicted on road next ot wooden fence. A woman is in driver's seat and another is getitng in to the passenger seat. Liscence plate reads: "Volkswagen De Luxe Coach." Recto inscription in grease pencil, bottom left: "2." Recto caption, bottom centre: "The 1961 Volkswagen features a newly designed engine putting out 40 horse power. Al four forward gears are synchronised. The Volkswagen now has an automatic shoke and windshield washers as standard equipment. Bright new colours and matching upholstery trim compliment the Volkswagen's exciting new poiwer and greater flexibililty. Reproduction allowed free of charge Volkswagen Canada Ltd." Verso label pasted in centre: Nor Baker Limited Artists :: Engravers :: Photographers 362 6411." Verso inscriptions in pencil- top right: "55/mm-Sept '65"; centre: "18 picas"; bottom right: "100 scr. 3inc half"; bottom right: "Calgary." Verso inscriptions in blue ink- top right: "36"; bottom right: "B1208."
Item consists of photographs from the Orange Order parade on 12 July 1924. The parade was held annually in celebration of "the victory of William III at the Battle of the Boyne" (source: "Historicist: Orangemen and The Glorious Twelfth of July." Last modified July 5, 2008. http://torontoist.com/2008/07/historicist_orangemen_and_the_glori/)
Item consists of a photograph mounted on light grey may with two dark grey borders. Image is of a group of boys seated out on a lawn in front of a building, with a row of adults standing behind them. They are in Scouts Canada uniforms and hold a banner at the front that reads "106th/ WOLF CUBS/ DO YOUR BEST".
Item is an albumen carte-de-visite reproduction of drawing. Depicts swimmers, one male diving underwater to kiss a girl's foot. Hand coloured. Recto caption: "Une declaration d'amour à l'anglaise."
Item is an albumen carte-de-visit copy of a drawing that two men in top hats; two girls in acrobatic costume, one getting a 'piggy back ride'. Recto caption: "CANCAN S".
Item is an albumen carte-de-visit copy of a drawing of half-dressed woman pouring wine over her head into a glass. Man slumped over table. Hand coloured. Recto caption: "Bachantin".