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SHEPHERD, Robert Ward

1999-0030

Film

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1953/1954

Robert Ward Shepherd III (Photography)

The wedding of Eleanor K. Shepherd and Arthur G. Abbey, at Como, Québec on September 12, 1953.~Footage of a trip to Illinois: Lake Michigan; a Yacht Club and a temple of the Baha'I faith at Wilmette; and a children's amusement park near Evanston.~Footage of a trip to Niagara Falls: a woman and a baby at the Rainbow Shores Country Club on Lake Ontario on the way to Niagara Falls; the steamer "Maid of the Mist" on the river; and the falls from both the American and the Canadian sides.~Footage of a Georgian Bay trip on board the steamer "Norgoma," of the Owen Sound Transportation Company; the ferry "St. Joseph Islander"; and entering the Canadian lock from Lake Superior.~Footage of a trip to Virginia in 1954: numerous U.S. ships on the James River; the old Point Comfort to Willoughby split on board Chesapeake ferry in Hampton Roads; and a creek en route to Kiptopeke aboard the Virginia Ferry Corporation "Northampton." <14mn 14s>

Silent with English intertitles

Open

V1 2003-05-0022

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