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Topographical Souvenir Album [graphic material]
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Record information Topographical Souvenir Album [graphic material]
Date:ca. 1865-70.Reference:R11293-0-5-EType of material:PhotographsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:616757Date(s):ca. 1865-70.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:110 photographs: b & w; albumen prints, sizes vary from carte-de-viste to 27 x 37 cm.
11 reproductions: b & w; photographs of paintings, engravingsLanguage of material:EnglishScope and content:The album contains photographs that, for the most part, are taken by unknown photographers. There are twenty-three loose commercial prints taken in Egypt by Langaki, Bonfils and Lauro. The Canadian content includes subjects such as Charlottetown, P.E.I; the H.M.S. Royal Alfred in the Halifax Harbour; the Parliament buildings, Chaudiere Falls and the suspension bridge in Ottawa; an ice jam on the St. Lawerence River and the Victorian tubular bridge, at Montreal; Montmorency Falls, near Quebec; two winter landscapes by Alexander Henderson; the International Hotel in Niagara Falls; two views from the Notman series on Cariboo hunting ("a chance shot"); and photographs from Milan and Rome, Italy; the United States, such as Alabama, Florida, Baltimore, and Washington. There are photographs of US Navy gunboats on the Mississippi at Vicksburg and Natchez, as well as the craters outside of Petersburg, Virginia.
Note: There are photographic reproductions of paintings, prints or engravings, which are not included in the number of photographs cited for the album.Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Unknown colonial official or military officer : This album contains photographs that may have been in the ownership of a British colonial official or Military of naval officer posted to Charlottetown, PEI in the post-1865 period, as several of the Canadian photographs are situated in that city. The individual who compiled the album appears to have been travelling throughout Ontario and Quebec, the United States, particularly the American south after the end of the Civil War, as well as journeying to Italy and Egypt.Additional information:Custodial history:The album was acquired from Phillips-Ward Price Ltd., Toronto, Ontario in 1981.Source:Private -
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