"Five-a-Minute and a Million!"
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- 1928
Part of The Phototeria
Item is an article about the Phototeria, written by Frederick Griffin and published in the Toronto Star Weekly on April 14th, 1928.
Griffin, Frederick
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"Five-a-Minute and a Million!"
Part of The Phototeria
Item is an article about the Phototeria, written by Frederick Griffin and published in the Toronto Star Weekly on April 14th, 1928.
Griffin, Frederick
"Slot machine makes perfect portraits"
Part of The Phototeria
Item is an article published in the Science and Invention magazine, in 1927. The article details the Photomaton, a photo booth similar to the Phototeria, invented by Anatol N. Josepho, and located at 1659 Broadway, in New York City.
Science and invention magazine
Item consists of members of the McKane family posing with a 1920s push lawn mower in front of a brick house.
Portrait of man. Faint inscription on back reads, 'Alfred E. Orr.'
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.'
Bradley & Rulofson
Item consists of one glass mounted colour transparency of a man standing in a building construction site near a sign that reads "Danger Keep Out".
Items depict scenes from along the Canadian Pacific Railway, people, locations, animal, the sun, tombs, ships, indigenous Peoples, cities and trails. Wooden box has the word Songs
on it.
Items are tintypes portraits of people, 8 are framed but the majority are unframed. Some show families or couples, but most focus on individuals
Item consists of photographs of a family at Atherley. Subjects include bodies of water, houses, bridges, and trees.
Item consists of one glass plate autochrome of studio still life scene.
Item consists of one glass plate autochrome of a pathway, residential building and flowering trees.
Item consists of one glass plate autochrome of a floral still life.
Part of The Phototeria
National Automatic Machines Company
Item consists of two black and white photographs of a woman lifting a baby out of a wicker baby carriage. The woman and carriage are on a walkway to the front of a house. There are some flowers in the background. The carriage is posed diagonally, baby and woman are looking at each other. The photos appear to be developed and fixed improperly, as there are liquid markings and fingerprints on the prints. The two images are identical but flipped and cropped differently. One is lighter than the other. On the back of each photograph is handwritten in black pen "Baby Rer. 6 wks."
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
Brown soft cover album with word "Photographs" on front. Bound by green braided string. Black pages with photos glued in. Handwritten notations in pencil. Back cover folded in upper left corner.
Photographs are family snapshots taken around Toronto, Orillia, Banff, Regina, Ancaster, Moose Jaw and Saskatoon. Some activities include rowing, tennis, canoeing, and attending various events.
Black leather album, lined with satin, bound with black string. "Photographs" is embossed on the front cover, and "Royal Albums" and "Made in USA" are in gold letterpress inside the back cover. Snapshots are glued to 40 black construction paper pages. Primarily vernacular images of weddings, soldiers, and vacations. Only Dick Gossett, Alan Pride, Bill McMillan, Duncan Wallace, and Minnie (Wallace) Owens are identified. One photograph of young men is entitled "Bolsover Flirts."
Royal Albums
Black and white 35mm transparencies
Item consists of 52 black and white transparency copy slides of photo-historical images for teaching. The slides are all in metal housings, made in Switzerland by Perro Color, US Pat. 2919840. They are individually numbered in black ink with a 4 digit number on white sticker labels, but there is no index to go with the slides.
Image Arts
Item consists of photographs of a trip to Brechin. The photos are taken in a rural farming area with subjects that include men and women, horses, hay, firewood, a log cabin, corn stalks, and cows.
Item consists of photographs of a family at Brechin. Subjects include family portraits and photographs with various farm animals including birds, horses, cats, and goats.
Item is standard dry plate plate negative of a group portrait.
Cabinet card and tintype album
Item consists of a dark blue album with the words "Scenes By the Way" written in white ink on the cover. Pages are grey with cutouts to slide in and hold photographs. Photographs consist of cartes de visite, cabinet cards and tintypes and are either loose or glued onto the pages. Some have captions written in fading white ink.
Photographs were taken at studios in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; New Westminster, British Columbia; Summerside, Prince Edward Island; Ottawa, Ontario; and Chicago, Illinois, and all consist of single-figure portraits.
Photographers and studios include: C. Lewis, E. R. Turner
Brown suede cover slip with some sort of faded decorative drawing; slipped over maroon hard-cover. Grey pages. Some photograph peeling away from pages; protective paper inserted between pages. A few lose photographs. Many pages left blank.
Themes include portraits, horse-drawn carriages, landscapes, waterscapes.
Includes a photograph of B. Heyman Furniture Co. in Phoenix, Arizona while located at the Anderson building on the northwest corner of Washington and 1st Street. The Anderson Building was built in 1888 and lasted until the 1980's. Also includes a photograph of Davidson's Cash Store, believed to be in Phoenix, Arizona c. 1902.
Black cover album with black pages bound by black braided string. The word "Photographs" is embosed on front cover in gold lettering. Photographs held in with black photo corners.
Photographs are mostly family snapshots, on the beach, at home, having a picnic and by the lake; some include domestic animals. Some photographs taken Ottawa, and Niagara Falls, and at Balboa Island, California, among other destinations.
Photo stores include Thompson's Camera and Art Store.
Date on the back of a loose photograph says "Apr. / 30".
Item consists of a brown album with gold embossing and darker brown detailing. Item has part of a metal clasp on right of cover. Pages are white with gold embossing and sleeves with cutouts to insert the photographs into. Spine is torn and in very poor condition.
Photographs are all carte de visite size, and there are 5 tintypes in paper mats spread throughout the album. Some are hand-coloured. They are all portraits, some are labeled in pencil or black ink on the back of or below the photograph with the subject's name and sometimes a date. The photographs were taken accross Canada in Charlottetown, Montreal, Halifax, Pictou, Ottawa, and others as well as Boston, Washington D.C., New York and Auckland New Zealand. Some of the studios that made the photographs in this album are the Notman Studio, Brady's National Portrait Galleries, James Inglis, and J.W. Black. Photographers include C.S. Lewis and Tanton.
Loose materials include: photographs, tintypes in individual envelopes.
Shields, Lorne
Two pairs of photographs originally grouped together. Two photographs are of a girl seated on a miniature chaise longue in front of garden wall, and two photographs are of the interior of Canterbury Cathedral. The cathedral photographs have both been written on verso in pencil "Canterbury Cathedral," and individually in ink, "Presbytery and Archbishop Bourchier's Tomb" and "Effigy of the Black Prince from his Tomb."
Shields, Lorne
Part of Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection
Item consists of three copies of a commemorative folder with 4 Canadian postage stamps presented on a "Day of Issue" envelope. The Stamps mark the 150th anniversary of Kodak Canada.
Kodak Canada Inc.
Item is an automatic coloured magic lantern slide containing several hand painted glass slides that could be rotated against each other with a small attached hand crank. Hand crank appears to be made of wood, as does the mount.
Composite photograph of professors in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Michigan
Item is a cream coloured card with gold border and a series of oval-shaped portraits arranged in an oval around two central oval portraits. Names of individuals have been lightly added in pencil, clockwise from top: [illeg.], Palmer, Lusker(?), none given, none given, [illeg.], Douglass." Across bottom, also in pencil, "Med. Faculty Mich. University 1868". On verso, in black letterpress, at centre, "R.D. PALMER,/ PHOTOGRAPHER,/ And Portrait Painter,/ Huron Street, East of Cook's Hotel,/ ANN ARBOR, MICH." And below, "Negatives preserved, Copies enlarged in India Ink or Oil."
R.D. Palmer
Portrait of young girl with bow in hair, holding umbrella behind her back. Inscription in black ink on back of photograph reads, 'Constance L.C. Orr'
Item is a portrait of young woman in a white dress. Inscription in pencil on back of mount reads, 'Connie Orr'. Inscription in blue ink on back of mount reads, 'Constance Orr'.
Item is a portrait of baby standing on a chair. The mother's arm is subtley draped in the background. Embossed beneath the photograph reads, 'Phillips Square, Montreal, Wm. Notman & Son'. Inscription in black ink on back of mount reads, 'Constance Orr'.
William Notman & Son
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."
Item is a portrait of young girl lying on the ground holding a ball. Inscription on verso reads, 'Dorothy'.
Item consists of photographs of a young girl and two adults at Withrow Park with a large rabbit toy.
Item consists of photographs of a young girl and man around a neighbourhood and inside a house. Two photos are in front of a tall fence, one is a photo of the young girl with a woman and the other is the young girl surrounded by a group of people.
Item is a portrait of young girl sitting on chair. Inscription on verso reads, 'Dorothy Orr Jany. 1908'
Item is a tintype placed in makeshift paper housing.
Item is a portrait of man, loose tintype.
Item is a glass negative of the moon. There is a circle around the moon, along with a line on one side.
Dry Plate Negative, Portrait of a Boy
Item is a glass negative of a child, who is posing with hands resting in front.
Dry plate negatives, family photographs
Item consists of 51 exposed dry plate negatives depicting family photographs of women, children, and pets.
Item is a portrait of woman. Gold text beneath photograph reads, 'Boissonnas, Geneve' Gold ink on back of card reads, 'Photographie Instantanee Medailles D'argent Zurich 1883, Stuttgart 1887. Boissonnas 4 Quai de la Poste Geneve La Maison N'est Pas a L'Angle. Tous les cliches sont conserves'. Inscription in black ink reads, 'Property of Edith A. Murphy, Geneva Suitz. '89'
Boissonnas Photographie Instantanee
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
Item is a cabinet card portrait of Emma Eames, an American soprano.
Item consists of brown, textured, hardcover, leather-bound album with decorative flower detailing on cover. Leather has worn off the spine. Pages are an off-white colour with decorative gold embossing and illustrative floral detail. Photographs slide in between two pieces of card that make each page and hold them in place.
Photographs are mostly portraits of one or two figures taken in studios across England, primarily around London, in towns and cities that include Brighton, Luton, Woburn, Tavistock, Bedford, Northampton and London. One photograph was made at J. C. Waler & Co. at 147 Yonge Street, Toronto.The address written inside the cover of the album is 61 High Street Ridgmont Bedford. Some notes and captions are written under and on the back of a few of the photographs in pencil and black ink. Inserted in the front page of the album are two loose pages with personal notes dated 1847 and 1881.
Studio names include: Chenhall & Son, The American Photo Co., W. Hall & Son, Powell Studios, T. Miller - Artist, Photo Artist - Lewes,
Names: W, M, Francis, T.G. Roberts The County Tea Exchange and Provision Warehouse [address was 45 & 46 High Street]
Shields, Lorne
Brown textured leather cover. Sewn binding. Black pages with photographs mounted with glue along one side of photograph, on one side of page only.
Images are of a gathering on a farm, with one group portrait and four snapshots of children. There is an illegible word inked on the envelope.
Shields, Lorne
Item is a cabinet card featuring a portrait of young female in graduate costume. Made by Wm Notman & Son, Montreal.
William Notman & Son
Ferdinand, Daytona Beach Florida
Title taken from card-frame. The bull in the picture with the name Ferdinand on the card-frame could be referencing the children story of Ferdinand The Bull from 1935, made into a cartoon in 1938 by Walt Disney - this would potentially date the image from after 1938. The tintype is an image of a bull with a man sitting on its back, arms in the air and holding two guns. Another man stands beside the bull, in sunglasses and a hat. They seem to be standing on a beach.
Item is a portrait of young woman. Inscription in blue ink on surface of photograph reads, 'Florence Elizabeth Roe'. Inscription in black ink on back of card reads, 'Florence E. Roe'.
Item is a carte de visite portrait of a young girl in a photography studio. Inscription on verso reads 'Florence Rose Orr - 6 years old - 30th July 1881. Made by Notman & Sandham, Montreal.
Notman & Sandham
Item is a professional portrait of young woman. Inscription on verso reads, 'Florence Roe Orr'. Edges of the item have been unevenly cut circularly around the subject's face.
Item is a portrait of woman in hat holding baby. Inscription in black ink on back of mount reads, 'Florence L. Clary Nu Orr, Leslie Clary 1901'
Item is a loose hand-coloured tintype portrait of four men.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of man. Gold text below photograph reads, 'Francis R. Elwell, M.A., 122, Regent St., London W.'
Part of Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection
Item is an illustrated promotional pamphlet detailing major events in the history of Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd., Eastman Kodak Company's Australian subsidiary.
Kodak Canada Inc.
Item consists of photographs of the Fulton and McKane families, the dog dot, and a wedding cake.
George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford
Portrait of Earl of Strafford holding a top hat and cane.
Mayall, John Jabez Edwin, 1813-1901
Glass plate negative, portrait of seminary students
Item consists of one glass plate negative of a group of 9 seminary students.
Wilfrid Laurier University
Item is a cabinet card portrait of male in graduate costume. Made by Wm Notman & Son, Montreal.
William Notman & Son
Grandfather Bird in his young days
Item is a hinged union case (plastic case) with scroll design. Die Engraver is Frederick C. Key, Casemaker is S. Peck and Company who began manufacturing in 1852, as per example in Union Cases: A Collector's Guide to the art of America's First Plastics by Clifford and Michele Krainik p. 173. Inside cover has a brown velvet cushion. Image side has brass matt, cover glass and brass preserver over tintype. Image is of a little boy, right hand on armrest. Cheeks tinted pink.
Group of Dry Plate Negatives, Varied Images
Items are dry plate negatives covering a wide variety of focuses, including group pictures, horses, buildings and railways
Group seated in car in front of the Hollow Tree in Stanley Park
Photograph of a group of 7 passengers in an early automobile, stopped along Stanley Park drive in front of the "Hollow Tree". This old cedar was a popular spot for group photographs in both cars and horse-drawn carriages. The stamp on the back of the card mount indicates this was taken by an official park photographer: "The Stanley Park Photographers, Head Office, 162 Cordova Street, Vancouver, B.C.". The negative number for ordering more prints is given as 4869a.
Stanley Park Photographers
Item is a portrait of baby. Inscription in pencil on back of card reads, 'Harold-(illegible).
L.P. Therriault
Item consists of a black and white photograph of a man and a woman walking a dog. The man is wearing a white shirt tucked into his pants, and the woman is wearing a dark coloured sweater and skirt, a necklace and white high-heeled shoes. They are standing in the grass in the front yard of a house. There is an awning, a porch, and flowers behind them. They are both looking at the dog, which is on a leash held by the man. The dog is small and black and shaggy. There is a 0.5 cm white border that surrounds the image. On the back of the photograph is handwritten in pen "Harry & Dodie Summer 1937."
Part of Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection
Item is a contact sheet featuring portraits of Harvey Crone.
Kodak Canada Inc.
Item is an audio recording of American photographer Hiro speaking about his work at Ryerson University as part of the Kodak Chair Lecture Series at Ryerson University on November 14, 1986.
Hiro, 1930
Photographic image is of a two-horse team standing on a dirt road with cart and driver in front of residential buildings. The card mount is taupe and dark gray.
Jesse J. H. Plato
Kodak color materials for the professional / Eastman Kodak Company
Part of Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection
Item is a colour illustrated pamphlet, published by Eastman Kodak Company in 1953, promoting Kodak colour products for professional photographers.
Eastman Kodak Company
Kodak commercial advertising photographs
Part of Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection
Commerical photographs: one still life of a tea set, one advertising a fisher price camera for children - the image is of three children (two boys and a girl) and a note with the photograph reads "Put a camera in the hands of children and sharpen your own view of the world. The Fisher-Price camera was designed for younsters in the five-to-eight-year-old group". Four are head shots of a young man wth a mohawk. Two are of Grey Line red double decker buses with Kodak advertising on the side of the buses. Two are studio shots of Kodak cameras with boxes of Kodak film. One is of men in the middle of a soccer game, this photograph includes a note that reads "Participants in the 1986 Kodak 'Run for the Money' color reporduction contest will be working from this colorful sports action photo in their attempts to accurately reproduce the image for the ninth annual Kodak 'Run for the Money." Other images are still lifes of coloured umbrellas, chalk, and casino lights taken at night. As well as two commercial 'beauty' shots of two women.
Kodak Canada Inc.
Kodak picture CD : [Kodak employee digital photographs]
Part of Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection
Item is an optical disc (CD) containing digital photographs (JPG) of a Kodak employee meeting and other miscellaneous photos.
Kodak Canada Inc.
Blue cover embossed with black design and gold "Kodak." White pages with one window per side. Fabric binding. Notation in black ink.
Kodak tech bits : bringing imaging techniques to scientists and engineers / Eastman Kodak Company
Part of Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection
Item is issue no. 3.
Kodak Canada Inc.
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
Item consists of one glass lantern slide of a carved stone ossuary. Likely from an art history teaching set.
Lantern slides, Palestine Exploration Fund
Item consists of two glass, black and white lantern slide depicting the Pulpit of the Borham-ed-din and El Deir (Petra). Both printed by the Palestine Exploration Fund (England).
Little girl with parasol, Florence E Roe
Item is a carte de visite of a little girl with parasol in winter coat sitting on a chair in a studio. William Notman photo. Ink inscription on recto reads, 'Florence E Roe'. Illegible inscription on verso.
Notman, William
Magic Lantern Slide in Wooden Frame, Fish
Item is a magic lantern slide with a depiction of a very large fish on it. There is a bridge nearby and a building. The style is decalomania. Item comes in a wooden frame with a sticker on it. Sticker has two leaves on it.
Item is a magic lantern slide done in the Decalcomania or Chromolitho style. Image shows rowboats, powered by 2-3 men, and a couple of bigger ships, as well as a dock.
Plank, Ernst
Item is a hand painted, medium format lantern slide with 8 individual images
Magic lantern slide, boy and a butterfly net
Item is a hand painted, medium format lantern slide with 4 images illustrating a boy swatting a man with a net.
Magic lantern slide, winter scene
Item is a hand painted, medium format lantern slide with 4 tableaus in one illustration depicting winter scenes in a village. Produced by Ernst Plank, Germany.
Item consists of 2 hand painted, medium format lantern slide with 8 individual images. Illustrations resemble Punch and Judy cartoons.
Item consists of 4 Magic Lantern Slides, each depicting a story in 4 images. Designed by German illustrator Theodor von Kramer
Item consists of 4 Magic Lantern Slides, each depicting a story in 4 images. Designed by German illustrator Theodor von Kramer
Item consists of 2 hand painted Magic Lantern Slides, each depicting a story in 4 circular images. Slides show frogs, cats and dogs swimming, driving cars and riding bicycles. Produced by Gebruder Bing, Nuremberg.
Item is a carte de visite portrait of man standing in a portrait studio. Made by Notman, Montreal.
Notman, William
Item is a carte de visite portrait of man standing in a photography studio. Made by Notman, Montreal.
Notman, William
Item is a carte de visite portrait of man standing in a studio beside a chair and table. Made by Notman, Montreal.
Notman, William
Male sitting in chair with book
Item is a carte de visite portrait of man sitting at a table in a photography studio. Made by Notman, Montreal.
Notman, William
Item is a loose tintype of a man and small child sitting in a photography studio.
Item is a loose tintype of a man and small child sitting in a photography studio.
Item is a cabinet card of a man and woman on a sled. Text below photograph reads, 'Summerhayes & Walford, Montreal'. Text on verso of card reads, 'Summerhayes & Walford Photographers, Montreal'. Illegible inscription on verso.
Summerhayes & Walford
Item is a grey card with black embossed decoration around oval photograph of a man with high white collar and ascot tie. At bottom right, embossed, "Leatherdale/ 52 KING ST W./ HAMILTON, ONT."
Leatherdale, Thomas J.
Man in canoe on a river (dry plate negative)
Item is a dry plate negative depicting a man canoeing on a river under a canopy of trees.
Man posed with scalpel and table with other (medical?) equipment
Item is a cream coloured card with image of a man in a dirty apron, holding a scalpel and standing in front of a table with other, possibly medical, instruments. On verso, photographer's stamp in black with the text "BREWER/ St. Paul's Square/ SOUTHSEA." In brown ink, written sideways on left, "Rather a sharp fellow."
Item is a loose tintype of a man sitting between two children on some rocks in the woods.
Marketing personnel/dev portrait
Part of Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection
Item is a contact sheet featuring portraits of an unknown man, presumably a Kodak employee.
Kodak Canada Inc.
Item consists of two photographs at Atherley. One is of the McKane family in front of a brick house. The other photograph is of the brick house from a distance with flowers with long stalks in front.