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Landscape

Item is a photograph of a lake with a boating dock in the distance. Inscription on verso reads, 'H.M.C.S. Cornwallis Main Drill Deck & Police Office Main Gate Flag Pole, Oct. 45'

Switzerland album

Green cover with missing spine. Grey pages with openings to insert photographs. Some photos held in with photo corners. Handwritten notations in white ink.

Locations include: Isola-Bella, Isola-dei-Pescatori, Italy; Monte Generoso, border between Italy and Switzerland; Andermatt, Swizerland.

Themes include: group portraits, scenic landscapes and views, houses, early railroad.

Japanese accordion album

Item is a black lacquered wood cover with painted decoration. White accordion folded pages with green edges. Photographs are mounted with paste and perhaps burnished. Images hand coloured. All folds in tact; no breakage.

Locations include: Shiba, Tokic; Mukojima, Tokyo; Sanjinko, Nikko; Yokohama; Yhama; Kamakura; Hakone; Castle of Nagoya; Kioto; Sarusawa at Nara; Hikone; Inland Sea; Nagasaki.

Themes include: temples, flowers and bamboo, ships, man-drawn carriages, domestic portraits of girls - spinning cotton, singing, drawing up water, shell-picking. m

Japanese accordion album

Item is a folding album with a black lacquered wood cover, including painted and ivory inlay decoration. White accordion folded pages. Tissue interleaving. 24 albumen photographs are mounted with glue. Images are hand coloured.

Photographs include scenic views and landscapes, architecture of buildings, portraits - mostly of women engaged in cotton-spinning or other activities.

Japanese accordion album

Item is a folding album with a black lacquered wood cover, including painted and ivory inlay decoration. White accordion folded pages. Tissue interleaving. 50 albumen photographs are mounted with glue. Images are hand coloured.

Photographs include scenic views and landscapes, architecture of buildings, portraits - mostly of women engaged in cotton-spinning, cooking and other activities.

Forest view

Image of a forest scene. Photograph is bright green color. Inscribed in black ink on bottom of photograph, 'Port Elgin, ONT' Pencil inscription on back of photograph reads, '9-1932 Glass Between'

Oaxaca city square

unmounted POP print with a view of Oaxaca city square form an upper-storey window of a building. Includes central gazebo, trees, statue, benches, cathedral tower in background. There is a group of men posed in front of the statue. Verso inscription reads "Plaza Oaxaca, Cathedral tower."

New road, Oaxaca

unmounted POP print depicting a newly built road with an obelisk at the end, a bicyclist in middle, and streetlights and stone benches long the sides. Mountainous background. Verso inscription: "New Pasco or Drive, Oaxaca."

water wheel

borderless snapshot mounted on thin card of the same size. Depicts a wooden waterwheel with three female figures standing around it. Verso inscription: "May. The Water Wheel. Mr. L and I had half and hour 's argument- because I refused to sit upon the stump marked with a cross. if I had succeeded in getting on I should have fallen off backwards because it was much steeper behind than in front. You would hardly believe what a long jaw we had over such a silly thing. Mary has on the Russian headdress."

Factory and railroad tracks

Print with white border, depicting large factory building with railroad tracks running in fron of it. Steam engines/machinery sit outside near the tracks. Several smokestacks and smaller garages surround the factory.

two sailboats

matte borderless print mounted on wthie card with embossed floral border. Depicts two small sailbroats in water, with oriental-type sails, each with two men sailing. Recto insciption "July 1899". Verso inscription "July 16 / 99"

pan american expo

print mounted on balck mat board. Depcits a view of a roadway lined with columns and statuary with pedestrians walking between. This is a view of the lincoln parkway entrance to the pan american exposition grounds, built for the exposition of 1901 in Buffalo NY. Verso inscription "Pan American Exposition 1903, The Pan American Exposition 1903, compliments of MR. Luther Cand."

Ben Nevis from Corpach

Item is an unmounted albumen print of a paddle boat docked in lack with mountains in background. Reto caption "Ben Nevis from Corpach. 1615. G.W.W." Verso inscription, ink: "M.S.D. with […] from P.B."

Culloden Moor

Item is an unmounted albumen print depicting battleground with large vertical stone markers and stone masonry watchtower. Forest in background. Recto caption "Culloden Moor. 2973. G.W.W."

McInnes & Co. building

Item is an albumen print mounted on white mat board. Depicts exterior of four storey white stone building in the style of the early Chicago school. Horses and carriages are on the street in front. Top of building reads "McInnes & Co."

crowd gathered in field with horses and carriages

unmounted print depicts large crowd of people gathered in field behind wooden fence. There are several horses and carriages in the mix. Houses and farms visible in background. Verso ink stamp "This photograph was made in a hurry and is not guaranteed permanent. Pringle and Booth 181 George St. Toronto."

group of men in field

unmounted print depicting group of men (and one young girl) in open field littered with leaves and sticks. One man in pointing at something with his cane. There is a saddle on the ground. Verso ink stamp "This photograph was made by Pringle & Booth, 181 George St. Toronto, duplicates can be had at any time."

harness racer

unmounted print depcting horse, cart and driver. The cart is a two-wheeled sulky used for harness racing. A large building is visible in the background. Verso ink stamp "This photograph was made by Pringle & Booth, 181 George St. Toronto, duplicates can be had at any time."

horse and rider jumping obstacle

unmounted print depicts rider on horse jumping over a wooden obstacle .another man looks on. Verso inscription: "Philosopher." verso ink stamp "This photograph was made by Pringle & Booth, 181 George St. Toronto, duplicates can be had at any time."

man in the shade

unmounted DOP of man in formal dress, white hat, cane, holding his gloves in outdoor setting. Verso inscription "Mr. I N George (?)" Verso partial ink stamp "[…]graph was made[…] and is not […] d permanent […] e & Booth […] Toronto"

starter and assistant on racetrack

unmounted DOP depicting four men, one with bowler hat, others with fedoras, standing on grass racetrack. Ole holds flag, one holds pad of paper. Verso inscription, "W.A. Dade the starter and his assitants." Verso ink stamp: "This photograph was made by Pringle & Booth, 181 George St. Toronto, duplicates can be had at any time."

dog race

unmounted DOP with black stripe at top of print. Depicts dogs racing down trac with crowd of people in background on bleachers. Sign in background reads "Kerr[…] Cloughen Tait Bonhag at Big Eaton […] Meet here Sat June […]" Verso ink stamp "This photograph was made by Pringle & Booth, 181 George St. Toronto, duplicates can be had at any time."

horse and rider at track

unmoutned POP depicting horse and rider turned away from camera. They stand beside a fence of a racetrack. Verso inscription "Charter-Wise turns his head from camera." Verso ink stamp "This photograph was made by Pringle & Booth, 181 George St. Toronto, duplicates can be had at any time."

RR Construction in Alberta, D.F. McArthur

Borderless print mounted on black mat board. Depicts several teams of horses pulling various wagons and construction machinery through a flat, dry, landscape. Recto caption in white, bottom left of image area: "RR Construction in Alberta, D.F. McArthur," bottom right: "8570." Verso has two halftone images (horses pulling a load of lumber through the snow, close-up portrait of a man) and printed caption: "Lumbering in Canada/ Blair's Photographs of G.T.P. Ry. Construction, Lumbering, Farming and Other Scenes Illustrating Real Life in Canada. Address, Edwin C. Blair, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Negative Number.........." Note: similar image from Blair's Photographs in the collection of the City of Edmonton Archives, ref. # EA-10-2088.

[family on lawn]

Item is an albumen print mounted on a mat board with gold edges. Depicts an extended family sitting on the lawn in front of a house with white siding, porch and bay window. They include three children, one dog, three, men, four women. Verso top right in pencil: "J."

[Chicago album page]

Thick card album page with cloth guiard attached. One gsp on each side of page. Recto depcits statue and surrounding park landscape. Recto inscriptions in black ink: "Lincoln Monument Lincoln Park Chicago." Verso depicts cattle, barn, and fences. Verso inscriptions in blakc ink: "#47 Steers in stock yards, Chicago. Only 10 minutes more to live." Each side has decorative borders in black ink.

[new houses, Calgary Alberta]

Glossy print with no border, mounted with glue on the corners to a brown mat board. Depicts newly built homes in a prairie landscape. There is empty land in the foreground, but more neighborhoods can be seen behind. Recto caption, bottom left of image area: "188," in circular logo: "E.F. Gove, 7 Thomas Block, Calgary." Bottom right, circular logo: "C A E."

Siena, S. Domenico

Matte borderless print mounted on thin white paper, then mounted on large brown card with deckled edges. Depicts a large church on a hill with surrounding town and landscape. Verso inscription, top left, in pencil: "Siena, S. Dominico." upper right, "N 29."

Rom. Kreuzgang S. Paolo fuori le mura [Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls]

Matte borderless print mounted on slightly larger white paper, then mounted on brown card with deckled edges. Depicts a coutyard and collonnade of a large basilica. Verso inscription, pencil, top centre: "Rom. Kreuzgang S. Paolo fuori le mura." The basilica was constructed around 395 and has been restored many times since the 4th century, and it has been declared a national monument by the Italian government.

[B.C. Lake]

Semi-gloss print with white border depicting a mountainous landscape with forest and lake. There is a path around the lake with figures on it. A parkin glot is also visible through the trees.Verso red ink stamp, bottom right: "Enlargement by Eastman Photographic Materials Ltd. Vancouver, B.C." Cardboard support (not attached to photo) reads "Just a B.C. Lake. no significance."

Landsberg of Warthe

Matte print mounted on white paper and brown card. Deckled edges. Image depicts a cottage surrounded by trees and covered in vines. Verso inscription, pencil, upper right: "Landsberg of Warthe." (Landsberg an der Warthe is German for the Polish city of Gorzów Wielkopolski)

Siena Strassenzug

Matte print mounted on white paper, then on brown card with deckled edges. Depicts a narrow street with arches over it. Figures in sihouette and in sunlight are visible walking down the street. Verso inscription, pencil, upper left: "N 34, Siena, Strassenzug." (strassenzug meaning street of houses)

Florence, Ponte Vecchio

Matte print mounted on white paper, mounted on brown card with deckled edges. Depicts a river with bridge over it. The bridge has shops and buildings all the way across. Verso inscription, top left, in pencil: "N25. Florenz. Ponte Vechhio[sic]."

[barn and river]

Green cardboard mount. Captions recto and verso: "Authorized Ansco Color Finisher; Insist on Ariston Color Prints." Depicts a river in winter, agricultural landscape with red barn.

[city wall gate]

Unmounted print with borders on top and bottom. Depicts a street in an old city, the focal point being a gate/arch in a battlement or city wall. Several figures are seen walking through it, some are blurred by motion. No inscriptions

[Horse-drawn float with watermelons]

Photographic print on grey mat board. Depicts horse-drawn parade float, decorated with crest, watermelons, grasses, and children riders. Embossed recto caption, bottom left: "Dinkler, Chapman St. Greenfield, Mass." Verso inscription, pencil: "August #29." Image transfer from another platinum print.

Dinkler

[Man standing in nature]

Lantern slide, glass slide. Handpainted over B&W image. Black frame with gold letters "Edward Van Altena 71-79W. 45th St., N.Y.C." Slide is numbered 1. No wood frame. Image is handpainted, but looks like a B&W photograph underneath. It is of a man standing alone in the middle of nature, on the side of a mountain on a cliff, looking up at the sky. There's mountains around him, trees towering over him. The sky is blue with some clouds. Date based on research that shows Edward Van Altena's studio was active during 1890s-1910s. This series part of Life Model Slides. "The most popular slides in Victorian times were 'life model slides', which depicted popular sentimental stories of the day.The slides were produced by arranging actors in costume in front of a painted back drop. Stage props were placed in front of the actors and the scenes from the story were photographed. The slides were often hand tinted with colour and sold in boxes, along with a text to be used as a reading.In particular the temperance movement and political speakers used slides to convert a mass audience." (http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/wally-simpkins-look-at-east-riding-history/Shadow-shows-and-magic-lanterns.2696708.jp)

[Procession of covered wagons through the moutains]

Lantern slide, glass slide. Handpainted over B&W image. Black frame with gold letters "Edward Van Altena 71-79W. 45th St., N.Y.C." Slide is numbered 2. No wood frame. Image of covered wagons making their way through the mountains, sky is painted blue and pink. The image is handpainted over a B&W slide.

[Man standing in a field]

Glass slide, handpainted over B&W image. Black frame with gold letters "Edward Van Altena 71-79W. 45th St., N.Y.C." Slide is numbered 4. No wood frame. Black paper around glass edges. Image of a man standing in a field looking up at the sky. He's in a field with a wood fence, housing sheep, and there's buildings in the background. The sky is painted blue and pink.

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