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Elspeth Newton fonds

  • CMC PHO-C23
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1804]-1922

Seven of the photographs are contemporary copy prints of older originals which depict the donor's ancestors in the female line beginning with her g.g. grandmother. These include: a portrait of the donor's g.g. grandmother, Anna Barbara Andrassy, ca.1804; the same woman, ca.1860-65; the donor's g. grandmother, Mary (Hope) Hespeler, ca.1870; the donor's grandmother, Georgina Hope (Hespeler) Nanton, ca.1885; the donor's mother, Mary Georgina (Nanton) Cameron ca.1905; and two photographs of the wedding party at the wedding of the donor's parents, ca.1912. The other three photographs are studio portraits including one of the donor's mother, ca. 1900 and two of the donor as a child , ca.1918 and ca.1922.

Newton, Elspeth

Phyllis (Elkin) Deacon fonds

  • CMC PHO-C24
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1860]-1930

ncluded in this collection are a portrait of Phyllis and her brother Lewis, ca.1908, and a portrait of Phyllis, ca.1930, wearing a wine velvet dressing gown which she later donated to the Museum. There is also an interesting snap shot of Phyllis, ca.1930, modeling a wedding dress which was reported to have belonged to Premier Norquay's daughter. There is a carte de visite of a young girl, ca.1884, identified as E.S. Gannis Angus and another of a woman ca.1898 identified as Eleanor (Angus) Elkin. (Phyllis's mother's maiden name was Angus.) There are four other cartes de visites and one tintype, ca.1860 - 1870, however, the relationship between the donor and the subjects of these photographs is not known. This collection also includes three watercolour fashion plate paintings, titled 'Faith, Hope and Charity', which the donor completed while a student at art school, ca.1920 - 1921.

Deacon, Phyllis

Carr Family Collection

  • CMC PHO-C25
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1870]-1950, predominant 1880-1910

Included in this collection is a photograph of the Carr family home of Woodleigh cottage, ca.1880 - 85; five photographs of members of the Carr family in England, ca.1880 - 1950; ten photographs of Robert and Evelyn Carr and their children, ca.1885 - 1916, including a view of the family homestead at Virden in the early days, ca.1895 - 1900; a carte de visite of an an unidentified young girl (possibly Evelyn Holmes), ca.1872/73; and an unidentified wedding party posed in a garden, ca.1875. Also included with this collection is a small pencil sketch of an unidentified manor house.

Carr, Robert and Evelyn

Coltart Collection

  • CMC PHO-C26.
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1860] - 1920.

The bulk of the collection, 24 photographs, consists of cartes de visites portraits of men and women, alone and in groups, and one child. All are ca.1865 - 1875. Some of the subjects appear in more than one photograph. None of the subjects of these cartes are identified. The remaining photographs are Cabinet Card, ca.1885 – 1890 and smaller studio portraits, ca.1890 - 1920. Some of the photographs have notes written on the reverse identifying the subjects but it is not known who wrote the notes. Several of the studio photographs feature women graduates and academics.

Coltart, Isabelle

Drobot Collection

  • CMC PHO-C27
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1865]-1880

This small collection consists of 14 cartes de visites photographs dating from ca.1865 - 1880. Only one subject is identified (through a penciled note on the back of the carte) and no relationship between the subjects of the photographs and the donor can be discerned from the donation records. The cartes are all individual portraits. Six are of women, five are of men, one is of am adolescent girl and two are of small children. Imprints indicate that the photographs were taken at various locations in southern Ontario and in the American Midwest (specifically one in Iowa and two in Illinois).

Drobot, George and Anne

Hilda (Tofts) Havelock fonds

  • CMC PHO-C28
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1850]-1979, predominant 1908-1930

The collection consists of three cartes de visites, one postcard portrait and 21 snapshots of various sizes. The cartes are the oldest photographs in this collection. Only one features identified subjects, a woman and infant identified in a caption verso as Mary Ann Westwood (nee Wisby) and her baby Claude in 1861. Three of the snapshots show Hilda with her school friends, first at Rivers School , ca. 1910, and at St. George's, ca.1913. The other snapshots feature Hilda and/or people who are likely her family and friends, ca.1908 - 1930. The one colour snapshot features an older woman identified in a caption verso as Hilda H., ca.1979.

Havelock, Hilda (Tofts)

Daphne Korol fonds

  • CMC PHO-C29
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1895]-1915

With one exception the subjects of these photographs, all dating from around the turn of the century, are not identified. It is not known if the unidentified subjects have any connection with the donor and the photographs were possibly collected as part of the donor's interest in costume. The photographs are all individual studio portraits. Four are portrait busts of women. One is a full length portrait of a woman identified as Katherine Tupper, the granddaughter of Sir Charles Tupper, wearing her 'coming out' dress, ca.1905 - 1910. There is also a full length portrait of a young girl sitting on a stool wearing a floral wreath in her hair and holding a crook.

Korol, Daphne

Dr. James W. and Mary Armstrong fonds

  • CMC PHO-C3
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1865]-1958, predominant 1885-1925

Most of the photographs in this collection date from ca.1885 - 1925 and, while most of the subjects are unidentified, the identified subjects include members of the Campbell and Armstrong families and their friends. Several photographs in this collection date from ca.1865 and feature members of the Campbell family of Dr. Armstrong's wife, Mary. Also included is a large class photograph identified as students of Kelvin High School and dating from 1916.

Armstrong family

Lillian McMillan fonds

  • CMC PHO-C30
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1889]-1930

The donors state that the subjects of these photographs are not known to them, however, they hoped that the photographs would have value as reference materials. The collection consists of two Cabinet Card photographs, ca.1890. One features a couple identified in a caption verso as Harrison's oldest daughter and son-in-law. The other of a young woman is identified as Harrison's daughter-in-law. Also in this collection are two postcard portraits, ca.1930, one of two women and the other of two men in winter coats. There are also four snapshots, ca.1925 - 1930. One is of a couple, one of a man holding a dog and one is of a child. The only identified subject of these snapshots is of a man holding an infant identified as Rev. Mathews at an Indian Reserve South of Erikson.

McMillan, Lillian

Wheeler Collection

  • CMC PHO-C31
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1910]-1934, predominant 1910-1925

This collection contains 12 snapshots (one of which has been enlarged and mounted on a dark card), 3 postcard prints and 3 studio portraits. The subjects of these photographs are all individuals or groups of mostly young women but children and men also appear in several of the photographs. Of the identified subjects, only the name Gwen (or Gwendoline) is repeated twice. Included in this collection are two unusual postcards, ca.1912. The cards feature two prints in oval 'frames' on the face and messages in French on the reverse. Both are addressed to different addresses in Belgium, however, neither has stamps or displays any indication that they have been mailed.

Wheeler, Pat

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