Malcolm Cecil Avery Photograph Collection
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Collection of 36 photographs.
Various Escott and Mallorytown families.
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Malcolm Cecil Avery Photograph Collection
Collection of 36 photographs.
Various Escott and Mallorytown families.
Charcoal portrait inscribed " Mabel Greer '04", mounted in an oval brass frame with convex glass and metal back. The subject is Breta Mabel Greer, born in Brockville in 1896, d/o Wm. John Greer, blacksmith, and Addie Bradford. She died in 1909 (age 13) in Manhattan NY after her family moved there. Possibly done by Mrs. Johnston.
M. E. Matthew photo collection
29 unidentified professional photographs on card, believed to be from the from Elliot, Snider, Webb families. A few have suggested names written au verso, including "Clifford Cheetham", "father - George Kyes", "Springtime" , "might be one of George Elliott's sisters", "A B", "Utica NY" , "Clifford Cheetham" boy with colt, post card "Mexico Sep./09 - Laura M Sheffield 358 Bagot St. Kingston Ont."
Lyndhurst ledgers from Peter Harvey
Collection consists of:
Ledger book with printed pages headed “Montreal Telegraph Company” recording sender, recipient, number of words, and charge for each
telegraph message in and out of Lyndhurst between 23 July 1873 and 26 July 1882 (front cover missing, very tattered and mouldy).
Interleaved in ledger is a statement from Great North Western Telegraph Co. of Canada showing debits and credits to Lyndhurst office for July 1887.
Leather bound ledger with caligraphy title page “Henry Green's Ledger/ May 1st 1854 (covers loose, mouldy)
Large unidentified ledger book with accounts of local names between Charleston and Seeley's Bay with dates of 1853 to 1855 (missing both covers and first 40 pages)
Record book of registered letters mailed from or passing through Lyndhurst Post Office from Dec 18, 1873, to Jan 30, 1883. Signed inside back cover “H Green, Postmaster, Lyndhurst”
Lyndhurst General Store - Copeland Block
File consists of one copy of a photograph of the Copeland Block and 8 photographs of the demolition of the Block.
Lyndhurst Dam construction photos
Collection contains 16 snapshots of the construction of the new dam in Lyndhurst in 1960, with surrounding buildings including the mills on both sides and the blacksmith shop. 1 photo of logs piled in a mill yard, location unknown.
Item consists of a book entitled "Home Cooking Secrets of Lyndhurst" published about 1965 (undated) by Women's Clubs Publishing Co., Chicago, Il, as a fund raiser for St. Luke's Anglican Church in Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst Continuation School Photo
Items consist of a b.w. photograph 13 x 18 cm of the Lyndhurst Continuation School and a b.w. photograph 7.5 x 15 cm of a Lake Trout caught in Red Horse Lake. The school photo has adhered to the glass of a frame in which it was contained for many years.
Lyndhurst Continuation School crest
Artifact: fabric crest with flocked design, 18 x 20 cm
1 plan of St Luke's Anglican Cemetery Lyndhurst, dated 1908, 100 x 67 cm -- 1 plan of Lyndhurst United Church Cemetery (adjacent to Anglican Cemetery) dated 1959, 40 x 21 cm.