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Portrait of a woman with violin

Item is a bi-fold card with mottled green pattern and embossed floral decoration at upper left. Inside portrait of a woman holding a violin. In black letterpress, at bottom inside "Herbert E. Paige/ 259 1/2 YONGE ST./ TORONTO"

Herbert E. Paige

Portrait of man in highland dress

Item is a white carte-de-visite with hand-tinted print showing man in Highland dress with kilt, leaning on chair in studio setting. On verso, in black letterpress, "BARNES & SON/ Photographers/ 422,/ MILE END ROAD,/ AND AT/ BEDFORD HOUSE/ 6, Bedford Place,/ COMMERCIAL ROAD EAST./ DUPLICATES/ may be had at any time/ No." followed by "6864" in ink.

Barnes & Son

Portrait of American officer with bicorne hat

Item is a yellow card with photograph of an officer with Napoleon-style hat and sword, in front of a rough wooden fence (in studio). On verso, an elaborate brown etching with flowers, camera and artist's paints reading "Davis & Douglas./ Photographers,/ 58 MAIN STREET/ FALL RIVER, MASS,/ INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS USED EXCLUSIVELY./ NEGATIVES PRESERVED./ DUPLICATES CAN BE HAD AT ANY TIME." In pencil, at top "15-".

Davis & Douglas

Lady sitting for D. parnes

Item is a cream carte de visite with photograph of two women in a studio with formal park backdrop. At bottom, handwritten in pink ink, "S/4 illegible of Leil." On verso, photographer's stamp, "Thomspon & Sun(sic),/ Photographers,/ George Street, Peterborough/ NEGATIVES PRESERVED./ No." In blue ink, "2162/ - of Lady sitting/ for/ D.parne(?)" Below, in grey ink, "Dparnes" is scratched out with blue and below, also in blue ink, "W. Pepper." In pink, at centre of card, "202" and in pencil, at upper left "1083". Finally, beside the text "No." is the penciled number "127".

Thompson & Sun Photographers

Portrat of Theo Lilienthanal

Item is a greenish brown cabinet card with two types of gold letterpress at bottom. The first, darker and smaller, "Theo Lilienthal & Co./ New Orleans" and the second, "Enamel Finish/ Benjamin/ CINCINNATI". On verso, elaborate gold design on red, "THE WATSON STUDIO/ BENJAMIN/ SUCCESSOR/ 156/ W. Fourth Street/ bet Elm and Race./ CINCINNATI, OHIO./ ALL NEGATIVES KEPT./ No.__" In pencil, at mid right, sideways, "1.00". Drawing around text shows a man at upper right painting a portrait and a lion at the upper left. The portrait is a vignetted image of an older, bearded man with large tie.

The Watson Studio

Portrait of Thomas W(?) Cooley

Item is a cream carte de visite with gold border, and text handwritten in ink at bottom "Thomas [illeg.] Cooley." Photograph shows man with a thick beard. On verso, in black letterpress, "R.D. PALMER,/ ARTIST,/ ANN ARBOR. MICH./ NEGATIVES PRESERVED."

R.D. Palmer

Woman raising right arm in costume

Item is a cabinet card photograph of a character from Wagner's opera Lohengrin. Mostly illegible script written on photograph, except, '1894'. Text below photograph reads, 'Lohengrin, Bayreuther Buhrenfest - Spiel'. Text on verso reads, 'W. Hoffert, Hof Photograph. Breslau, Hamburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Magdeburg, Dresden, Hannover. Photographische Kartenfabrik v. Paul Suss, Dresden.

W. Hoffert Hof Photograph

Emily Rae

Item is a portrait of woman. Text in blue ink below photograph reads, 'Kellie & Co. Portraits'. Inscription in pencil on back of card reads, 'Emily Rae'.

Kellie and Co. Portraits

Baby portrait.

Item is a baby portrait. Black text below photograph reads, 'Weston & Son, Dover & Folkestone'. Black text on back of card reads, 'Photographed From Life by Lambert Weston & Son. Waterloo Crescent, Dover. Sandgate Road, Folkestone.'

Lambert Weston & Son

Portrait of woman

Item is a cabinet card portrait of woman. Text below photograph reads, 'Rockwood, 17 Union Square (West) N.Y.' Text on back of card reads, 'Rockwood Photographer 17 Union Square (west) N.Y.'

Rockwood Photography

Spain album

Brown/maroon bound cover labeled "6". Notations in pencil. Photographs are mounted behind window-cutouts on the pages. Some photographs quite faded.

Locations include: Granada, Alhambra, Algeciras, Spain; Scheveningen, Netherlands; Southamphton, England.
Sites include: Rio Genil, Puerta de Elvira, Rio Frio, S.S. Olympic.

Themes include: portraits, scenic views, bullfighting, ships, sailing.

Coronation Day at the Home of Mr and Mrs Smith, June 22nd 1911 Toronto Canada

Glossy print with white border mounted on thick card of the same size, and black paper of a larger size. Depicts a group of people outside a house surrounded by flags. A picture of the royal family hangs behind them. Recto caption, bottom right of image area: "Coronation Day at the Home of Mr and Mrs Smith June 22nd 1911 Toronto Canada."

Phototeria questions

Item contains notes taken by George Dunbar in preparation for an article he wrote on the Phototeria in 2006.

Dunbar, George

Phototeria interview with Peter McCowan

Item is a short synopsis of an interview that George Dunbar conducted with Peter McCowan, son of Phototeria creator David A. McCowan, in preparation for a 2006 article on the photobooth.

Dunbar, George

Spira 19th and 20th century foreign language photography publications

  • F 2008.004
  • Collection
  • 1866-1975

The collection contains books and bound periodicals on the subject of photography. Subjects include instructional guides, process descriptions, art photography, early photographic chemistry and product catalogues. Some publications include tipped in photogrpahs. TThe primary language of the collection is German, with a few Spanish, Russian, Czech, and Japanese publications.
Periodicals include:
Allgemeine Photographische Zeitung (January 1924-December 1926)
Photofreund (1924)
Photofreund Jahrbuch (1924-1934)
Photographische Archiv (1866, 1871-1891)
Photographische Correspondenz (1878, 1889-1908, 1928, 1932, 1947-1951)

Spira, Jonathan

Exhibition prior to 2000

Series contains pamphlets, press releases, invitations and publications for photographic exhibitions at museums, galleries, festivals and universities in the United States and some abroad, between 1985 and 1999. Venues include:
621 Gallery, Tallahassee
Akron Art Museum
Amon Carter Museum
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, site Francois-Mitterrand
Bronx Museum of Art
California Museum of Photography
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Denver Art Museum
Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia
The Flagler Museum
George Eastman House, Rochester <BR>
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Haas Gallery of Art, Bloomsburg University
Hood Museum of Art, Darmouth College
The International Center of Photography, New York,
James Howe Gallery, New Jersey
Kanagawa Arts Festival, Japan
Klebenov Gallery
Lehigh University Art Galleries
Missoula Art Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
The National Trust, UK
Octagon Galleries, Bath
Photographic Resource Centre Boston
Rose Art Museum, Brandis University
Seattle Art Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Southeast Museum of Photography
Taft Museum, Cincinnati
Tozzer Library, Harvard University
University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts
University of Southern Main
Wellesley College Museum
Wolfsonian, Miami Beach

Nordström, Alison

T.F. Pevear's cottage picture album

A letter folded into the album cover, addressed to Mr. Gordon Hamblin at Canadian Kodak, Ltd. describes the content of the album as a weekend at Mr.T. F. Pevear's cottage near Rochester, NY, where Mr. Hamblin visited while attending a meeting at the Eastman Kodak Company.

Kodak Chair lecture series, 1997-1998

Series contains audio recordings of 6 lectures by photographers and filmmakers that took place as part of the Kodak Chair Lecture series at Ryerson University in the 1997-1998 academic year. Lectures were recorded in both audio and video formats, with the exception of the Vincent LaVoie lecture, which is only available in audio. The lecture schedule was as follows:

Jochen Gerz (German conceptual artist), December 12, 1997
Julian Cox (American curator) on Julia Margaret Cameron (UK photographer), January 30, 1998
Vincent LaVoie (French Canadian historian), February 5, 1998
Laurie Simmons (American photographer and filmmaker), March 6, 1998
Ed Burtynsky (Canadian landscape photographer), March 20, 1998
Jeffrey Shaw (Australian media artist), April 3, 1998

Image Arts

Kodak Chair lecture series, 1999-2000

Series contains audio recordings of lectures by photographers and filmmakers that took place as part of the Kodak Chair Lecture series at Ryerson University in the 1999-2000 academic year. Lectures were recorded in both audio and video formats. The lecture schedule was as follows:

Sandy Skoglund (American photographer), October 22, 1999
Linda Troeller (American photographer), November 5, 1999
John Gosssage (American photographer ), November 12, 1999
Suzy Lake (American-Canadian photographer, videography and performance artist), January 28, 2000
Jim Goldberg (American photographer), February 11, 2000
Ken Josephson (American photographer), March 3, 2000
Johan Van Der Keuken (Dutch documentary filmmaker & photographer), March 10, 2000
Alain Fleisher (French filmmaker and photographer), March 17, 2000

Image Arts

Kodak Chair lecture series, 2001-2002

Series contains audio recordings of 7 lectures by photographers and filmmakers that took place as part of the Kodak Chair Lecture series at Ryerson University in the 2000-2001 academic year. Lectures were recorded in both audio and video formats. The lecture schedule was as follows:

Nicolas Baier (French Canadian multidisciplinary artist), October 19, 2001
Tom Hunter (UK photographer), November 2, 2001
Rineke Dijkstra (Dutch photographer), February 8, 2002
Roni Horn (American visual artist), February 15, 2002
(Lorna Simpson (American photographer), February 22, 2002
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller (Canadian multi-media and installation artists), March 15, 2002
Joan Fontcuberta (Spanish conceptual artist), March 22, 2002

Image Arts

Communications reference material

Sub-sub-series contains documents used as reference material for Kodak Canada's Corporate Communications department and also potentially by the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection and Museum between approximately 1970 to 2005. Sub-sub-series contains articles photocopied from various publications or printed from websites, including articles published by Kodak--such as articles from Kodak magazine--and articles published externally. Sub-sub-series also includes: mission statements, organizational charts and other strategic documents for both Kodak Canada Inc. and Eastman Kodak Co.; print-outs and photocopies of Kodak Customer Service pamphlets; and reproduced advertisements and photographic images. Because the Corporate Communicatons department was closely associated with the Kodak Heritage Collection and Museum, a similar file of Museum Reference Material was likely also consulted by employees of Corporate Communications.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Reproduced photographs

File contains reproductions of photographs used by corporate communications and also likely by the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection and Museum. Subject matter includes: Plant and facilities at Colborne and King streets; Kodak Heights; factory work; employees; wartime; product images; dental and medical photography; George Eastman; corporate events; and others. Some reproductions annotated.

Kodak Canada Inc.

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