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Lower Town Market Building, Ottawa's first City Hall 1849-1874

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Item

Date:

1954.

Reference:

R13133-259-4-E, Volume number: 13

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3963240

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Miscellaneous Christmas Cards

Lower Town Market Building, Ottawa's first City Hall 1849-1874
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Date(s):

1954.

Place:

Ottawa:

Place of creation:

Canada

Publisher:

Rhodes & Radcliff,

Extent:

1 card : with photomechanical reproduction ; 17.7 x 25.2 cm.

Language of material:

English

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Christmas card produced by Rhodes & Radcliff Ltd., with a reproduction of an image by John W. Ball on the cover. Image depicts a winter scene with the Lower Town Market Building in Ottawa, with people walking by in the snow.
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Artist: Ball, John W

Rhodes & Radcliff Limited
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General note:

Christmas card no. (old item no. on verso): 41
Inventory number, J.W. Ball artist file: III-1

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Recto, l.r.: Lower Town Market Building / Ottawa's first City Hall 1849-1874
Inside cover, left, l.l.: At the inception of the Town of Bytown its Municipal / Council consisting of Magistrates, assembled in Quarter / Sessions at the old Court House on George Street. At a / following meeting it was moved and agreed that the upper / floor of the Lower Town Market Building (built in the / middle of George Street near Sussex Street) be used. / Built in 1848, it was an unpretentious wooden structure / of the wood-shed style of architecture, with outside stairs / running up from both sides and converging at the entrance / of the upper story. / Demolished in 1874, the Town Hall saw service for / nearly 25 years.
Inside cover, left: Compliments / of the Season / RHODES & RADCLIFF LIMITED / OTTAWA, CANADA ; centre, in manuscript pencil: XMas / 1954
Verso, l.l.: This card, one of a series on old Ottawa sites and buildings, has / been specially drawn and produced for Rhodes & Radcliff Limited.
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Christmas cards

Public buildings Ontario Ottawa
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Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

13 Item no. assigned by LAC 247

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13133-247

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