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      Hannah Lucas née Breckon with sons Franklin (standing) and Alfred. She was married to Cecil Franklin Lucas.

      Montgomery clan members & friends.

      MacNeil clan members, ca.1860-1900.

      Perry's Block was located opposite the outlet at Elm Street. It was built by John Ham Perry in 1858. The building was destroyed by fire on June 10, 1864 and was replaced by McMillan's Block the same year. This print comes from "Tremaine's Map of the County of Ontario, Upper …

      Whitby House Hotel was located at 117 Dundas Street West in Whitby, Ontario (and was located at the south east corner of Dundas and Byron Streets). It was built in 1847 by its first proprietor, Thomas N. Scripture. Some time later it became know as Robson House. Then, in 1873 …

      This three-storey brick and stone store was located at 106 Dundas Street West (on the north side of Dundas Street, three doors west of Brock Street). The building was known as Bigelow's Block. It was built around 1860 and operated as a dry goods, groceries and stationery store by Joel …

      Lowes and Powell Store was located on Brock Street in a three storey brick building. This print comes from "Tremaine's Map of the County of Ontario, Upper Canada".

      Lowes and Powell Store was located on Brock Street South in a three storey brick building (located on the east side of Brock Street, midway between Dundas and Colborne Streets). Built in 1858, the building was known as Till's Block. It burned to the ground in the great fire of …

      The Globe Hotel was located at 41 Baldwin Street. It was a frame building located on the east side of Baldwin Street (Highway 12) between Roebuck and Mill Streets (Cassels Road). This is the present site of Grass Park. The Hotel was built before 1860 and destroyed by fire on …

      The original is oval and measures 5 1/2" by 8 1/8".

      In preparation for the Prince's visit on September 7, 1860 (for the official opening of Victoria Hall) a number of arches were built. This one at the corner of King and Division Street had suspended festoons of coloured drapery attached and formed an open pavilion. Transparent materials and multi-colored lamps …

      William Laing was born at Morayshire, Scotland in 1819 and came to Whitby with his brother James in 1841. He was one of the town's leading business men and grain dealers in the 1850s and 1860s. He was Reeve of Whitby in 1855 and Mayor in 1863-1864. From 1874 to …

      An unnamed woman. Stamped on the back of the photograph: "L. WILSON, St. Mary's, C.W."

      A tin-type image of an unnamed woman; possibly the same woman as image P10 262.

      A view across the Silver Creek valley showing the Charles Kennedy Saw Mill at Wildwood (now The Watchtower property).

      Flora Matilda and her two children

      A portrait of Thomasine (Davidson) Hume (b. 1783), wife of George Hume (d. 1849). They farmed Lot 11 and 12, Con. 2, Esquesing.

      "Post-mortem photography (also known as memorial portraiture or a mourning portrait) is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. These photographs of deceased loved ones were a normal part of American and European culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." (Wikipedia)

      "Cabinet card photographs were first introduced in 1866. They were initially employed for landscapes rather than portraitures. Cabinet cards replaced Carte de visite photographs as the popular mode of photography. Cabinet cards became the standard for photographic portraits in 1870. Cabinet cards experienced their peak in popularity in the 1880′s. …

      A photograph of a young girl from the photo album of Amos Wright, resident of Richmond Hill.