Collection search - H. A. C. (Henry Alexander Carmichael) Jackson records [textual record]

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H. A. C. (Henry Alexander Carmichael) Jackson records [textual record]

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Date:

1883-1961.

Reference:

R7316-23-0-E, MG30-D351

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

205326

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Naomi Jackson Groves fonds

Jackson family records

H. A. C. (Henry Alexander Carmichael) Jackson records
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Date(s):

1883-1961.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

0.895 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Sub-series consists of H.A.C Jackson's lectures on mushrooms, letters he received, his notebooks, and miscellaneous papers. The letters include ones from his family, including his wife, Coralie Adair Jackson, his daughters, Naomi Jackson Groves, Constance Jackson Hamilton and Geneva Jackson Baird, his brother Ernest Jackson, his son-in-law James Walton Groves, and his father Henry A. Jackson, as well as from other family members. There is extensive general correspondence, including letters from professional colleagues John Dearness, Irene Mounce, René Pomerleau and Walter Snell documenting his interest in mycology. The miscellaneous correspondence documents Jackson's career as a commercial artist, with correspondence from the London Printing & Lithographing Co.; Benallack Lithographing & Printing Co.; Standard Photo Engraving Co. Ltd.; Mortimer Co. Ltd.: Lithographers, Printers & Book Binders; Woodburn Sons Co. Ltd.; Canadian Art Works Ltd.; Ronalds Press & Advertizing Agency; Decalcomania Co. Ltd.; Gazette Printing Co. Ltd.; Canada Advertising Agency Ltd.; Charles N. Valiquet Business Souvenirs; and Rapid Grip Engraving Co. The notebooks record Jackson's mushroom forays.

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Jackson, H. A. C. (Henry Alexander Carmichael), 1877-1961

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Jackson, H. A. C. (Henry Alexander Carmichael), 1877-1961 : H.A.C. (Henry Alexander Carmichael) Jackson was born in Montreal, where he spent most of his life. He studied art at the Monument National and visited the art museums of Europe with his brother A.Y. Jackson in 1905. He became a commercial artist, working with various lithography firms in Montreal. In 1909 he married Coralie Adair Jackson (1885-1982), daughter of Robert Adair and Jane Ruth Mitchell, who had been raised in Bowmanville, Ontario. They had three daughters: Naomi, Geneva (Dee) and Constance (Ton). Geneva was married twice, first to Alfred E.H. Petrie, a numismatics expert, and then to Patrick Baird, the geographer and Arctic explorer. Constance was also married twice, first to Robert Hamilton and then to Lionel Strange. Naomi married the ornithologist and mycologist James Walton Groves. H.A.C. Jackson retired from his work as a commercial artist in 1941, but pursued an enduring interest in ornithology and in mycology at the family summer home, Patley, at St. Aubert ( near Saint-Jean-de-Port-Joli) and later in Manotick, where he and his wife moved in 1957. He earned a reputation as an amateur collector of ability and a producer of very fine mushroom paintings, which were used to illustrate René Pomerleau's Mushrooms of Eastern Canada and the United States (1951). H.A.C. Jackson died in 1961. An exhibition of his mushroom paintings was mounted by the National Gallery of Canada in 1977, followed by the book Mr Jackson's Mushrooms (1979). The National Gallery holds many of his works in its permanent collection.

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Arrangement note:

The sub-series is arranged alphabetically as follows: lectures, letters, notebooks and (miscellaneous) papers. See also the Coralie Adair Jackson sub-series for additional correspondence.

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Private

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MG30-D351
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 D 351]

[Consultation 90 Open]

108--112;

[Consultation 90 Open]

130;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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