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Shields, Lorne Nova Scotia
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Portrait of Mother and Ernie

Item is a white card with black letterpress at bottom edge, "AYERS/ YARMOUTH". Photograph is a portrait of a woman and child in front of a painted landscape backdrop. The woman holds an umbrella and stands behind a wooden fence while her son leans against the fence from the front side. He wears a velvet suit with knee-high striped stockings. On verso, at centre in black letterpress, "THOMAS AYERS/ PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO/ 3, Clarence Place Regent Rd/ YARMOUTH." Handwritten in black ink across the verso, "Mother & Ernie 1872/ viewed it in America/ on the 3rd of Oct./ 1872/ While I stray from/ home in life's rough/ way Oh teach me from/ my heart to say".

Thomas Ayers

[Covered Bridge]

gelatin silver print with white border and scalloped edges. Depicts a covered bridge, river, road and brush landscape. Sign at left of bridge entrance reads "speed 10 miles, load limit 2 tons." Verso inscription, blue ink: "Longest Hartford Covered Bridge N.S."