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Portrait of three children
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- Graphic material
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2008.001.1378
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ca. 1890 (Creation)
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- Electric Light Photo Gallery
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ca. 1890 (Creation)
- Creator
- Dixon, Samuel J.
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1 photograph: 16.5 x 10.9
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Samuel J. Dixon was a photographer located in Toronto, Ontario and operated the Electric Light Photo Gallery from 1876 to 1896.
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The Electric Light Photo Gallery operated in Toronto, Ontario from 1876 to 1896. It was owned by Samuel J. Dixon.
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Scope and content
Item is a cream coloured cabinet card with gold letterpress at bottom edge, "Dixon/ Cor. King & Yonge Sts./ TORONTO." Photograph is a full length portrait of three children, with the youngest wearing a velvet coat, tartan skirt and matching socks and seated on a bannister on the left. A girl is seated in a rustic tree branch chair on the right. The boy in the centre wears a sack coat with only the top button fastened. On verso, a lithographed design in gold with the text "ELECTRIC LIGHT PHOTO GALLERY." followed by the image of the front and back of a medal for the Industrial Exhibition Association of Toronto Opened Setp 5th 1879. Beneath that, "Highest Award at Toronto, Kingston and Hamilton./ S. J. Dixon,/ MEMBER OF THE/ Photographers'. Association. of. America./ All Photos made with the New Process./ NO CHANGE OF EXPRESSION./ The Exposure is but One Second./ GALLERY,/ Cor. King and Yonge Sts./ TORONTO./ Not Connected with any other Gallery of the/ Same Name."
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Physical condition
Good. The card is quite dirty and worn around the edges. Lots of minor surface abrasion, including a collection of long scratches at the upper right. It looks like a lot of the background was blotted out behind the children's heads at the centre, possibly done on negative.
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- Shields, Lorne (Subject)
- Dixon, Samuel J. (Subject)