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Miscellaneous transportation photographs and miscellaneous portraits of people [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

[ca. 1850-1880].

Reference:

R5500-29-8-E

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

617111

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Andrew Audubon Merrilees fonds

Merrilees photographic and art collection

Miscellaneous photographs of land and marine transportation in Canada and the United States

Miscellaneous transportation photographs and miscellaneous portraits of people
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Sub-series includes:

17 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[ca. 1850-1880].

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United States

Extent:

ca. 16 photographs : 2 ambrotypes, 5 daguerreotypes, and 9 tintypes.

Language of material:

English

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This sub-series (formerly sub-series E I) contains daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes dated ca. 1850-1880. There are five daguerreotypes of unidentified men and women, one with some gilding; 2 ambrotypes of unidentified girls and women; 3 carte-size tintypes of unidentified people, including one group of three railway employees; 1 tintype of unidentified woman with lip disfigurement, marked "Paret 297 Bowery"; 1 tintype of unidentified locomotive engineer (?) or other work in a man (eyes scratched out); 1 tintype of a locomotive outside a roundhouse; locomotive marked "581, C.S.R.R."; 1 tintype of man in a canoe with boats in background, labelled "One of the first steamboats to run on the Kawartha Lakes. Taken in the locks at Youngs Point"; 1 tintype of Sacramento & Placerville engine No. 2, Folsom, California, c. 1880, together with explanatory letter from E.W. Blair to Erle Heath, Sept. 27, 1940; and 1 tintype of a locomotive of Boston & Albany Railroad, 1870.

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Photographs (Paper) Guide to Finding Aid FA-053, Accession 1980-149. Paper copy located in 326. Electronic on S:Drive. FA-053 (Restrictions not set)

Photographs (Microform) Image indexes by Photographer, Location and Subject, and for Series B and Series C located in 326. FA-053 (Restrictions not set)

Photographs (Paper) Paper Indexes located in 326: 98 page Inventory, catalogue of Great Lakes Vessels negatives, partial list of Marine photos in series B and C, sub-series BII & BIII by location, ship and locomotive names, shelf lists for series B to F, box content list with collection description and research tips. FA-053 (Restrictions not set)

Photographs (Electronic) Box contents list by barcode listed as amerilee.wpd and collection description and research tips listed as amerintr.wpd. Both in s:/vsa/photo.a&r/findaid. FA-053 (Restrictions not set)

Photographs (Paper) Original envelopes with captions B-001732 to B-010999 located in 2000814413-16, 18, 20, 22-23, 25-26, 28, 30, 32, 36-38 and C-006506 to C-02105 in 2000814442, 44-51. Original index cards with captions 2883 to 4030 located in 2000792444. FA-053 (Restrictions not set)

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Series added entry:

Group E, Sub-series I

Source:

Private
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [MERRILEES, ANDREW 1980-149]

[Consultation 90 Open]

5049;

[Consultation 90 Open]

ENC 4031;

[Consultation 90 Open]

ENC 4046;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Access to photographs to be undertaken only with the supervision of an archivist. Credit: Name of photographer / Library and Archives Canada / Copy negative no.

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