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PE001559 - Photographs: [Alberta scenes]
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1898-[192-?] (Creation)
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Album (18 x 29 cm.) bound by string between black covers. Contains [ca. 217] b/w photographs and postcards. Most of the images are pasted down in the album, although some are inserted in corner mounts. Some items have been lost or removed. Many images are accompanied by manuscript annotations. Some captions include dates.
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The creator of the album is not explicitly identified, but visual evidence suggests he may have been Lorne Muir. Two images identified as "Lorne Muir" or "L. Muir" appear to match photographs containing the captions "self" or "myself." From 1911 into the 1950s, Edmonton Henderson's directories contain entries for a Lorne Muir, first as a resident of the Mortlake Block and subsequently of other local addresses. He began work as a clerk at Revillon Bros., eventually becoming manager of its hardware department. He later worked at Ashdown's Hardware. The album contains photographs of Revillon buildings as well as the interior of an apartment accompanied by the caption "Rooms, Mortlake Block."
The album consists largely of photographs of individuals - presumably friends, family, and colleagues - in a variety of settings ranging from mountain and ranch scenes to residential and commercial venues. The subjects are often identified by first name and, in many cases, more fully. Although there are a number of British Columbia locales represented, the bulk of the images appear to have been taken in Alberta. There are several photographs and postcards of the Edmonton flood of 1915. The postcards include images of the 1899 flood and prospective miners heading north to the Klondike gold rush.
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- English
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Bruce Peel Special Collections is part of the University of Alberta Libraries.
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- Muir, Lorne (Subject)