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Barbara Grant fonds.

  • CMC PHO-387, PHO-388.
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1972].

Items consist of two colour photographs, one of a bride and groom cutting a cake, the other of a wedding party of six persons (including the bride and groom) posed in front of a stained glass window.

Grant, Barbara

Eileen Abbott fonds

  • CMC PHO-C47
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1927]-1978

The collection consists of: a portrait of Mrs. John Bulman wearing a black beaded evening dress, ca.1927 - 1930; an enlarged photograph of a pair of c.1923 grey suede beaded dress shoes, which had been worn by Mrs. Abbott or her mother, ca.1978; an enlarged photograph of a pair of c.1919 ladies boots now in the possession of Mrs. Abbott's daughter, ca.1978.

Abbott, Eileen

Miss A.W. Scott fonds

  • CMC PHO A-12; PHO A-13
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1870]-1895, predominant 1880-1890

The photographs were contained in two albums. One (designated A-12) is a small album containing 20 leaves with 40 openings designed to hold Cartes de Visite photographs. Twenty-seven photographs dating from ca.1875 - 1890 were found in this album. The second album (designated A-13) contains 18 leaves with openings to hold 12 Cabinet Card and 96 Cartes de Visite photographs. Nine Cabinet Card and 71 Cartes de Visite (for a total of 80) photographs dating from ca.1870-1895 were found in this album along with a small rice paper print and a Lord's Prayer card. The subjects of the photographs, some of whom are identified, are of the type usually found in family albums of this period and include men, women and children (individually and in groups).

Scott, Miss A.W.

Una (Gray) Johnstone fonds

  • CMC PHO-C17
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1850]-1920, predominant 1850-1896

The bulk of the collection consists of 19 studio portraits of individuals and groups dating from ca.1850 - 1895/96. It is likely that the oldest photographs were owned by Hector and Jane Munro and the collection was added to over the years by their children and grandchildren. The remaining four photographs are postcard size snapshots dating from ca.1920 and depicting a small northern settlement identified as The Pas, Manitoba.

Johnstone, Una (Gray)

Alex and Alice Lyon fonds

  • CMC PHO-C34
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1901]-1961, predominant 1901-1920

This collection consists of three black and white copy prints, made in 1979, of older originals which featured interiors of the Queens Hotel in Transcona, ca.1911 - 1913. The kitchen, dining room and bar are shown. Alice Denton can be seen in kitchen and dining room views. An original black and white print of the kitchen view mounted on heavy black card is also part of this collection. There are two black and white postcard prints. One features Alice and her friend, Isa Sutherland, ca.1910-11. The other features James A. Lyon, ca.1916. There are also two snapshots. One features James A. Lyon with a friend, ca.1919. The other is a colour view of Alice and Alex Lyon riding in an open car for Transcona's 50th anniversary in 1961. Also included with this collection are two small commemorative lithographs of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, probably marking their coronation in 1901 and mounted in a gilt frame on a blue velvet covered card with easel.

Lyon, Alex and Alice

Beatrice May (Quilliams) Blocker fonds

  • CMC PHO-A4; PHO-A5
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1910]-1915

The photographs in this collection are mounted in two albums. One (designated A4) contains 66 b&w photographs, ca.1910 - 1915. The subjects are Beatrice, her younger brother and other members of their family. Also featured is a photograph of the Canada Bread factory under construction on Banning Street, ca.1912, and photographs of a family vacation in Cornwall. The other album (designated A5) contains 45 b&w photographs, ca.1910. The photographs feature the donor during her first year (b. May 22, 1910) with various members of her family. Both albums feature several interior and exterior shots of the Quilliams family home.

Blocker, Beatrice

May Elizabeth (Kennedy) Hayward fonds

  • CMC PHO-C62
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1870]-1924

The collection includes: a snapshot of May Elizabeth, ca.1924, outside on a winter street (C62.1); a snapshot of the donor's mother and two other women, ca.1910, at a river boat dock (C62.2); a snapshot of a family group, ca.1910 (C62.3); and a Kennedy family group, ca.1870 (C62.4).

Hayward, May Elizabeth (Kennedy)

Lillian Knight fonds

  • CMC PHO-C71
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1890]-1940

This collection includes: a cabinet card portrait of a family group, ca. 1890, identified as Jim and Agnes Smith and child; a postcard print, ca. 1915, of an unidentified man and two women standing beside and automobile on a dirt road; a portrait of an unknown baby, ca.1940; and a portrait of Lillian Knight on her wedding day in 1941 as she alighted from a car.

Knight, Lillian

Beattie Collection

  • CMC PHO-C5
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1915]-1961, predominant 1915-1927

Thirteen of the fourteen photographs in this collection date from ca.1915 - 1927 and all but three of these are studio produced portrait busts. Also included in this group are two views of farm machinery in the fields (one view of which is identified as McKerchar's, near Rosser) and a candid snapshot of a couple embracing. There is also a large format photograph of the Dugald Ladies Fashion Review pictured on a float for the Transcona 50th Anniversary Parade in 1961.

Beattie, Marion

Edna MacLachlan fonds

  • CMC PHO-C2
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1914]-1918

With the exception of one photograph labeled 'Orpington, England, 1915', the photographs cannot be dated with any more accuracy than ca.1914 - 1918. Most of the photographs depict posed groups of CAMC nursing sisters, including a group of Canadian nursing sisters picking poppies in the Flanders area.Two are interior views of army field hospitals and one features four servicemen, one in a wheel chair.

MacLachlan, Edna

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