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Animals and wildlife, Red Cathcart, other family friends personal photographs

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs sent to Norman Luxton from various friends, including "Red" [Cathcart?], Eugene LaPorte, Woodworth and Theodora Campbell, the Green family, and Ernest Maunder. Content pertains to Red [Cathcart's?] work transporting oil to mines, and views from his travels in British Co…

Date Range: 1933; [1935-1950]; 1936; 1943; 1945

Reference Code: LUX / I / E4 / PA - 354 to 431

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / E : Collected material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / E4 : Photography

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / E4 / PA - 354 to 431

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: 1933; [1935-1950]; 1936; 1943; 1945

Physical Description: 77 photographs : b&w and col. prints ; 14.5 x 8.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs sent to Norman Luxton from various friends, including "Red" [Cathcart?], Eugene LaPorte, Woodworth and Theodora Campbell, the Green family, and Ernest Maunder. Content pertains to Red [Cathcart's?] work transporting oil to mines, and views from his travels in British Columbia and Camp Debert in Nova Scotia; Eugene LaPorte fishing near Lake Ontario; Indigenous communities in Panama [sent by Mr. and Mrs. Campbell]; photos of the Green family [names missing]; photos from a community and nearby forested areas [location and source unknown] with detailed notes on back of related personal memories; Ernest Maunder's model boat hobby; "Dorothy" feeding geese in February 1954 in Inglewood [region in Calgary?]; and photographs of various wildlife by J.H. [Jack?] Munroe.

Notes: Some photographs have annotations on back. Items LUX/I/E4/PA-389 and 397 also have directions and illustrations of property layouts

Name Access: Cathcart, John George (Red); Luxton, Norman; Campbell, Woodworth; Campbell, Theodora; LaPorte, Eugene; Maunder, Ernest

Subject Access: Artist; Boats; Transportation; Travel; Sports; Hunting; Oil; Natural resources; Model boats; Mines and mineral resources; Immigration and homesteading; Indigenous Peoples; Industry; Recreation; Family and personal life; Cabins and shelters; Animals; Birds; Dogs; Wildlife

Geographic Access: Canada; British Columbia; Alberta; Calgary; Inglewood; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Central America; Panama; Ontario; Lake Ontario; Newfoundland and Labrador; St. John's

Language: English

Conservation: Items stored in mylar and archival envelopes

Related Material: LUX/I/E4/PA-363 related to photographs LUX/I/E4/PA-224 to 285; LUX/I/E4/PA-364 to 374 related to photographs LUX/I/E4/PA-305 to 360 [some of photos in files are duplicates]; LUX/I/E4/PA-399 to 413 related to photographs LUX/I/E4/PA-72 to 114

Category: Arts; Cultural pluralism; First nations; Natural resources; Sports, recreation and leisure; Transportation

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Annie McKenzie family portrait album

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one photograph album containing 27 photograph prints and 5 tintype photographs. Contents include black and white portraits of various unnamed individuals, as well as one photograph of a large group of children posing outside of a log building [possibly a schoolhouse].

Date Range: [ca. 1865 - 1870]

Reference Code: LUX / III / B2 / PD - 2

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Tintype

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / B : Georgina Luxton series

Sous-Fonds: LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / III / B2 : Personal papers and photographs

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / B2 / PD - 2

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Tintype

Responsibility: Photographs in album produced by Charles H. Wright, James Sinclair, Burgess Photography [Guelph], T. Smith Photographic Artist [Guelph], and other unnamed photographers.

Date Range: [ca. 1865 - 1870]

Physical Description: 1 album (32 photographs : b&w ; 12 x 8 cm or smaller)

Scope & Content: File consists of one photograph album containing 27 photograph prints and 5 tintype photographs. Contents include black and white portraits of various unnamed individuals, as well as one photograph of a large group of children posing outside of a log building [possibly a schoolhouse].

Notes: First page of album is annotated in black ink [see "Content Details"].; Date range provided is estimate by Processing Archivist based on contents of album [active periods of photographers credited in album overlap between ca. 1867 - 1870; album is signed by "Annie McKenzie", who married and became "Annie McDougall" in 1871].