Glass negative of large tent in field
- CA ON00156 2021-045
- Item
- c. 1920
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Glass negative of large tent in field
Grace B. Waters photograph albums
The First World War photograph album contains about 164 black and white or sepia photographs, 1 cartoon entitled "The same old moon", 1 coloured pencil sketch of a nurse. The album is Kodak's "Gallia" model (32.5x26x2cm) in plain black, textured leatherette. The photographs vary greatly in size from 21 x 14.5 cm to 8.5 X5.9 cm. About 40 of the photographs are signed either "E.R. Owen" or "E.R.O.". The first photograph is marked in pencil, "Donor G.B.Waters". Many of the photographs depict the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Cliveden, England. Many images depict the hospital at the time of a visit by King George V and Queen Mary, a visit by Sir Robert Borden, and a visit by Winston Churchill. There are images of the hospital wards both indoors and out, the cafeteria, the linen supply, and many patients (a lot of the patients seem to be wearing special issue hospital shoes) and nurses. Subjects include: nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps; funerals; women ambulance drivers; trenches, military hospitals.
The second album dates from 1916 to 1921. Identified locations include: Athabaska Hall; Banff (Alberta); Red Deer; Lake St. Helena; Edmonton; Sylvan Lake; Mount Royal; Montreal (from M.G.H.); Fort William [Thunder Bay]; Lake of the Woods; Moose Jaw; Markerville; Innisfail; New York. There are several photographs of farm scenes and some of medical personnel in white coats, holding human bones.
The third album includes photographs taken at a graduation at McGill University in Montreal; scenes of Niagara Falls; photographs of cars; two photographs of hospital rooms.
This collection also includes an annual report for Kingston General Hospital, 1906; a brochure for Queen's University Hospital in Cairo, c.1915; five panoramic postcards of Le Tréport, France, c.1915; a letter from 'Elsa' of Dickson, Alberta to Ivy, Clifford and Lloyd, discussing her new job as head of a teacher training department in Ethiopia, dated 5 August 1946, and two sheets of song lyrics for the following songs:
Sheet 1
Cupid is the Captain of the Army
I've Said My Last Farewell
Those Songs My Mother Used to Sing
The Bull-Frog and the Coon
Poker Love
The Good Old U.S.A.
So Long Mary
The Tale of a Stroll
Lazy Moon
Sheet 2
Fishing
I Would Like to Marry You
As We Swing, Sweetheart
Drummer Song
Dear Old Johnstown
When I Rode on the Choo Choo Cars
I Fell in Love With Polly
Hey! Mister Joshua
Hiram Green, Good-Bye
It Makes Me Think of Home, Sweet, Home
Waters, Grace Brown
Photographs from the Grimson family. The collection contains images of families, couples, and individuals outdoors and in studio settings.
Group photograph of young women
Photograph of 49 young women in white skirts and shirts, with dark scarves, sitting on rugs in a garden. Possibly students of St. Agnes School, Belleville, Ontario.
Collection comprises:
Harrison, Hannah Mary
Harold McMurrich Rathbun negatives
Two negative-holders with annotations by Harold McMurrich Rathbun for negatives he took between 1907 and 1914, with loose negatives from 1920-1940. Most of the photographs were taken in and around Deseronto, Ontario, but they also include photographs taken on a journey by rail to Alberta in 1907.
Rathbun, Harold McMurrich
Hastings County Junior Farmers materials
Materials relating to the Hastings County Junior Farmers, including:
Hastings County Junior Farmers
Herbert 'Burt' Rathbun glass negatives
A group of glass negatives associated with Herbert 'Burt' Rathbun (1861-1897) and his family.
Rathbun, Herbert
Hobbs family Royal Flying Corps photograph collection
Album of photographs compiled by a member of the Hobbs family. Teddie Hobbs appears in one of the photographs and there is also a photograph of the grave of J. E. Hobbs. The majority of photographs are of the First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps in North America: Camps Borden and Mohawk in Ontario and Camp Taliaferro in Texas.
Honour rolls for members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
One framed and four unframed honour rolls from the Second World War, recording the names of members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian who served in the armed forces.
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Belleville)
Images of the sun taken during the 2024 solar eclipse in Belleville
Three images of the sun taken during the eclipse of 8 April 2024 and time-lapse video of solar totality period over Belleville.
Lantz, Paul
Images taken during the 2024 solar eclipe in Belleville
Seventeen digital photographs of people viewing the solar eclipse at Meyers' Pier in Belleville and six photographs of artists taking part in the Quinte Arts Council "Plain Air in the Path of Totality" event at the pier.
Fraiberg, Gerry
Items found in 77 Brant Street, Deseronto
Found in file labelled “Old Papers Found 77 Brant Street, Deseronto, 1997”
Papers, including:
Items transferred from the Belleville Intelligencer
Collection of materials comprising:
Intelligencer
J. Clarence Waddell photographs
Photographs of scenes in and around Belleville, Ontario, including a circus parade, Lincoln Beachey's aircraft, the talc mine at Madoc and military groups.
Waddell, J. Clarence
Jackie Simpson file relating to Carman fountain
File of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the relocation of the Carman fountain from Glanmore National Historic Site to the Moodie cottage in Belleville, Ontario, in 1997, including notes on the history of the fountain. The fountain was at the Moodie cottage from 1997 to October 2019, when the City of Belleville removed the fountain into storage. It was located at Glanmore from 1984 to 1997 and was at Franklin Foley's ironworks from the late 1960s to 1984. It was moved to Fireman's Park at Dundas and Front Street in 1961. It was originally located at the Carman property at Dundas and Bleecker, which was built in 1876.
Simpson, Jackie
John Fairbairn Anderson negatives
Negatives of photographs taken by John Fairbairn Anderson. They include images of dams, electricity generating plants, the Beal family cottage on Stoney Lake and photographs of places Anderson visited, including Orillia, Los Angeles, Peterborough, Young's Point, Sulphide, Port Hope, Muskegon (Michigan), Chicago and Trenton (Ontario).
Many of the negatives are associated with an index card, on which Anderson wrote the number of the negative, the subject of the photograph and the date it was taken. There were also a number of negatives with no associated card.
Anderson, John Fairbairn
Collection principally comprises research notes, newspaper clippings, promotional publications and postcards relating to the history of the town of Deseronto, Ontario. It also includes a file of materials relating to a voyage on the Empress of Scotland ship in 1956.
Allin, Muriel Kathleen 'Kay'
Ketcheson and McAllen family collection
Kilties collection of Angus Duffy
Souvenir items relating to The Kilties band:
Kilties