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Robert Ward Shepherd Collection, No. 22 : [home movie]

Item number (ISN):

302358

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1949/1953

Item number (ISN):

302358

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

SHEPHERD, Robert Ward

Accession:

1999-0030

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1949/1953

Production company:

Robert Ward Shepherd III (Photography)

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Footage of a trip to Virginia in 1949: Fort Henry in Baltimore Harbour; ships and planes in Hampton Roads off Norfolk; crossing Hampton Roads; the Baltimore Packet Company steamer "City of Norfolk"; on the way to a swamp canal on board the U.S. Army Engineer's vessel "York"; the Governor's palace at Williamsburg; the Capitol building at the foot of Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg; the Raleigh tavern, Williamsburg; the Pewterer's shop; homeward bound through the mountains of Pennsylvania; and scenes of New York State near Syracuse.~Footage of a trip to Rideau Lake on board the "Amita II" in 1952: the lake; two young ladies on the boat; people sunbathing, boating and water skiing; the captain of the boat; sea scouts in a small motor boat; a boat through the locks on the Ottawa River; the Parliament in Ottawa; and scenes of the Ottawa river.~Footage of a trip to the New England states: passengers on board the ferry "Governor Carr" in Jamestown going to Newport, Rhode Island; the Plymouth Rock, landing place of the pilgrims in 1520, Commonwealth of Massachussetts; a blockhouse under construction in Plymouth, Massachussetts; the statue of the Indian Massasoit, who was friendly to the pilgrims in 1621; the burying ground of the passengers of the Mayflower who died during the first year after landing; a replica of the pioneer ship and the House of Seven Gables at Salem, Massachussetts; waterskiing on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire; a trip on the M.V. "Foxy" and meeting the M.V. "Mount Washington" on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. <14mn 25s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

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1. Colour footage.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2003-05-0022

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Kathie (Peyton) Bourque Copyright probably rests with Kathie Bourque.Copyright probably rests with Kathie Bourque.

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