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Oval bust portrait of Neil Macgillivray

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

n.d.

Reference:

Accession number: 1984-180 NPC, Box number: 5198

Item no. (creator):

p. 10

Type of material:

Photographs

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3612740

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McGillivray Album collection

Oval bust portrait of Neil Macgillivray
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Date(s):

n.d.

Place:

Montreal

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

Positive Paper Silver - albumen

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Neil Macgillivray

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Photographer: Notman, William, 1826-1891

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page inscriptions: Neil Macgillivray
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Neil Macgillivray born Dec. 3, 1827 and died Nov. 18, 1886; 1st son of John and Isabella MacGillivray; married Catherine Orpha Lucy Macdonell Aug. 26, 1858, Martintown; had 4 children: Isabella, twins Mary Augusta and John William, and Angus
This carte-de-visite album consists of 50 folios into which 50 carte-de-visites were inserted, but of which 3 are missing. The owner of the album remains a mystery, but it was likely a member of the family of John and Isabella MacGillivray. The majority of the portraits are of the MacGillivrays, but there are also portraits of family friends and acquaintances.
This is volume 1 of this accession. The album is bound with hard leather with two metal clasps.
The MacGillivray Album is a carte-de-visite album bound with a hard leather cover with two clasps. There are 50 folios from which 3 of the cartes are missing. While the owner of the album is unknown, it is likely that this belonged to one of the MacGillivray family as the majority of the identified portraits are of family descendants of John and Isabella MacGillivrary.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

verso: top - Neil Macgillivray, MacGillivray Album, 16867; center - PHOTOGRAPHER TO THE QUEEN, Notman, Montreal' bottom-right: JFK 7/3/22

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Album p. 76

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Private

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1984-180 NPC

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1984-180 NPC
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Box [MCGILLIVRAY ALBUM 1984-180] 5198

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05198 Page 10

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