WILLIAM NOTMAN and others

Canadian portrait and costume studies, 1860s-70s

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WILLIAM NOTMAN and others
Canadian portrait and costume studies, 1860s-70s
Album containing 128 cartes-de-visite, several numbered in the negatives, the majority with photographer's printed credit Notman Montreal. Photographer to the Queen on verso, loosely mounted in pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, several identified and with negative numbers in pencil in a later hand, brown padded morocco with decorative gilt border, gilt clasp, g.e., 4to.; with twenty-four cartes loosely inserted. (25)

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Sitters are identified as including Wollesley, Pencoke, Mr. and Mrs. Banall in furs, studies of men with snowshoes and sledges; mechanical engineers, Mr. and Mrs. Fergusson with snowshoes, Mrs. Belmont of New York, Mrs. Kellogg, Miss Lequin, Miss Wilson and Miss Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Suter of Montreal; a group portrait of the amateur stage company of Montreal; Capt. Stuart, Col. Lindsay, Col. Walkers, Mr. Rodin the Mayor of Montreal in official dress and Mr. and Mrs. Constantine Phipps.

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