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PE004759 - Photograph Album Documenting the Royal Visit to Winnipeg in 1951
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1951 (Creation)
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Nine (9) 9.0 x 12.5 cm B&W photographs bound by a metal clip into an orange paper album cover.
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The photographs cover the royal visit of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to Winnipeg, MB in 1951. Photographs processed by Sun Photo Co. in Winnipeg. There are no captions.
- Princess Elizabeth, heir apparent to the British crown, and her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, disembark a Canadian Air Force plane and are greeted by uniformed gentlemen.
- Still on the tarmac, with the Canadian Air Force plane in the background, Princess Elizabeth smiles as she signs documents on a table flanked by two uniformed men.
- Princess Elizabeth inspects a line of Royal Canadian Air Force members.
- Princess Elizabeth and Philip ride in the back of a Cadillac car, protected on all sides by a clear canopy.
- Princess Elizabeth and Philip pass officials on a staircase outside an unidentified location. In the background, officers link hands to hold back a massive crowd.
- Princess Elizabeth and Philip ride in the back of the canopied car, driving past cheering crowds. People crowd in the second and third floor windows above Moore’s restaurant. A theatre marquee sign wishes “A Warm Welcome.”
- Princess Elizabeth stands surrounded by officials at the top of stone steps between two stone columns.
- Princess Elizabeth and Philip ride in the back of the canopied car. Crowds appear to be pressing close, with this photograph taken very close to the passenger side of the car.
- Princess Elizabeth and Philip descend stairs inside an unidentified location.
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The photographs are perforated and are close to falling out of the album.
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Bruce Peel Special Collections is part of the University of Alberta Libraries.
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F-4-0-0-25
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