James Fairbairn was a photographer active in Deseronto, Ontario in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Published
Photograph of a young woman with inscription reading "Dear Mother With best Love Lettie, Aug 12th 1903". The woman is possibly Lettie Howard (born Lettie Young: 1874-1961). Lettie Howard is the only person in Deseronto in the 1901 census with that first name. She married Robert Howard in Belleville on 10 April 1894.
Transferred to the Community Archives in September 2016.
Donated to the Deseronto Archives by Brian Murphy in April 2009.
Photograph is available online at https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=23121382%40N07&sort=date-taken-desc&text=lettie&view_all=1