North and Central America

Taxonomy

Code

1000001 Map of North and Central America

Scope note(s)

  • Within the logic of TGN,

Source note(s)

  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Display note(s)

Equivalent terms

North and Central America

  • UF North America
  • UF Central America

Associated terms

North and Central America

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View master gift-pak (Sawyer's)

This item is a view master gift-pak. The brown view master is made of plastic and metal with a small lever on the right side. When pushed down the lever rotates the reel inside. There are 7 separate Kodafilm reels of 16 mm transparencies depicting landscapes and landmarks throughout North American. Item comes in original box with a catalogue of optional View Master reels.

Hand painted photograph album

Album cover in plastic held together with string. Black pages, photos glued in. Handpainted photographs. Doodles and drawing on pages in white ink. Several handcoloured photographs.
Pages in very poor condition - torn, flaking. Several loose photographs; yellowed and faded photographs.

Themes include snapshot portraits, domestic and farm animals - horses, dogs, sheep, cows; horse racing, crop fields, early vehicles and possibly an early tractor.

Canada album

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

Strange Animals of the World, View-master Reels

Item consists of wheel type stereographs that depict animals divided by geographic location (Wheel 1: South America and Asia, Wheel 2: Australia and Africa, Wheel 3: Africa and North America). The subjects of the pictures are listed on the back of the envelope. Also comes with a 16-page colour illustrated booklet

Workers on the Grand Trunk Line 1902

Item consists of a grey card with photograph affixed. Image shows four rows of men standing and seated on a wagon in front of a brick building, all workers on the Grand Trunk Railway line. On verso, handwritten in pencil, "Grand Trunk line" and at top right corner, "1901". On plastic bag accompanying photograph (discarded), a sticker was attached with the text "Grand Trunk Railway/ 1902/ 9.25".