Category:Images from Archives of Ontario - C 130 Marsden Kemp fonds
A collection of images from the Marsden Kemp fonds housed at the Archives of Ontario. The photographs were taken during the late 1800s to early 1900s in Eastern Ontario including Picton, Cornwall, Barnhart Island, New York, as well as other locations. A majority of the images do not indicate where they were taken. His most prolific period of photography was in the early 20th century, from about 1900 to 1914.
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Marsden Kemp was a piano tuner, amateur photographer, and avid gardener. Kemp, his mother and all of his siblings were born in Jamaica. Otherwise, not much is known about his life or family. A hunting accident prematurely ended a promising start as a pianist and he moved on to become a piano tuner in Kingston, Ontario. Later in life, he moved to Picton and enjoyed gardening. Kemp died on April 5, 1943.
Kemp's photographs document leisurely activities of middle- and upper-class families. Activities depicted include picnicking, people in parlours, drinking tea, and people by the lake. Kemp would often feature pianos or plants when depicting a subject in a parlor. It was not uncommon for him to depict people in front of houses or outdoors also.
George Miller, an antique dealer from Picton, had come across the Marsden Kemp glass plate negatives in the 1960s. There were about 4000 to 5000 negatives found but only 1000 negatives were salvageable due to storage conditions and time impacting their condition. Miller made prints from the negatives as well as numbered and compiled descriptions of the negatives in a notebook. The source for his descriptions is relatively unknown as few negatives had inscriptions. Possible contacts who knew Kemp were found in Miller's notebook and original enclosures may have provided information but this has not been confirmed.
In 1968, Miller donated 64 copy prints of the negatives to the Archives of Ontario, and in 1970 the original glass plate negatives were acquired from Thomas Bouckley of Oshawa. A single copy print had later been identified as a Kemp photograph that was originally donated in 1967.
The Archives of Ontario has chosen to share these images because they document fashion, dress, leisurely activities, and domestic life among the middle- and upper-class families in the early twentieth century.
Media in category "Images from Archives of Ontario - C 130 Marsden Kemp fonds"
The following 200 files are in this category, out of 876 total.
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"Whaleback" S. S. Portsmouth (I0013286).tif 5,023 × 3,592; 16.09 MB
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(View from the) A.C. Miller Canning Co. (I0012999).tif 5,105 × 3,698; 15.73 MB
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A church or a school (I0013536).tif 3,598 × 5,017; 16.34 MB
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A frozen pond or river (I0003943).tif 3,900 × 2,720; 8.34 MB
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A group of people standing in a field (I0013481).tif 4,823 × 3,856; 15.88 MB
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A horse, Cornwall, Ontario (I0013498).tif 4,483 × 3,486; 8.91 MB
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A man and three women (I0013464).tif 4,826 × 3,853; 10.93 MB
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A man and two women standing in the yard of Wood's house, Cornwall (I0013429).tif 4,484 × 3,487; 10.59 MB
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A man holding a horse, and two men seated in a buggy with a team of horses (I0013509).tif 4,710 × 3,760; 13.65 MB
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A man standing in front of Conger Falls and Hallowell Mills (I0003899).tif 3,725 × 2,840; 8.04 MB
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A parlour with a piano (I0013316).tif 5,040 × 3,643; 14.38 MB
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A picnic in the woods (I0013467).tif 4,623 × 3,849; 15.61 MB
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A road in Glenora (I0003881).tif 3,600 × 2,920; 8.23 MB
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A woman standing in the woods (I0013460).tif 4,792 × 3,859; 16.25 MB
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Alexander MacDonnell farm, Black Creek (I0013147).tiff 4,413 × 3,452; 10.2 MB
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Alexander MacDonnell's stone building and farm, Black Creek (I0013124).tif 4,897 × 3,495; 13.78 MB
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Amherst Island school (I0012857).tif 4,752 × 3,813; 16.37 MB
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Amherst Island, poplars along a road (I0012856).tif 3,806 × 4,751; 17.62 MB
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An Ontario river (I0013566).tif 3,874 × 4,680; 15.61 MB
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An orchard in winter (I0013549).tif 5,027 × 3,612; 15.44 MB
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Anglican Church (I0013075).tif 5,152 × 3,676; 16.74 MB
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Apple barrels stacked on the dock awaiting transport, Picton (I0013110).tif 4,877 × 3,508; 14.64 MB
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Archie Preston standing on a rock at the shoreline, Wellington (I0013457).tif 4,799 × 3,861; 12.85 MB
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Army camp (I0013005).tif 4,696 × 3,832; 13.2 MB
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Automobile in front of a house (I0011822).tif 2,646 × 4,562; 10.97 MB
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B. R. Hepburn's Rickarton Castle (I0013082).tif 4,986 × 3,576; 17.44 MB
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Back of Queens University in winter (I0012896).tif 4,432 × 3,324; 11.54 MB
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Barge Brighton and schooner Minnedosa (I0003918).tif 3,775 × 2,809; 7.29 MB
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Barnhart's Island house, Barnhart's Island (I0012938).tif 4,664 × 3,803; 15.01 MB
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Barnhart's launch (I0013330).tif 4,491 × 3,455; 9.34 MB
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Barnhart's launch (I0013333).tif 4,392 × 3,432; 8.82 MB
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Bert Cooper, Bloomfield (and people in several wagons) (I0012860).tif 4,757 × 3,804; 14.74 MB
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Bert Cooper, Bloomfield (wagonload of people in farmyard) (I0012861).tif 4,747 × 3,806; 15.18 MB
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Bert Kyle, Cornwall (I0013351).tif 3,473 × 4,474; 9.58 MB
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Block house, Merrickville (I0003889).tif 3,600 × 2,915; 6.93 MB
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Blockhouse (I0013022).tif 4,415 × 3,357; 10.95 MB
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Blockhouse (I0013023).tif 4,300 × 3,339; 9.32 MB
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Blockhouse and mill at Kingston Mills (I0013084).tif 4,558 × 3,803; 13.72 MB
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Blockhouse at Merrickville with two men and children in the foreground (I0013024).tif 4,447 × 3,372; 10.16 MB
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Blockhouse, Cornwall (I0013658).tif 4,548 × 3,091; 12.36 MB
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Blockhouse, Kingston Mills (I0013083).tif 4,600 × 3,828; 14.53 MB
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Blue Mountain, Charleston Lake from near outlet (I0013676).tif 4,548 × 3,240; 16.25 MB
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Boat coming into port (I0013264).tif 4,262 × 4,224; 15.47 MB
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Boat houses by the water (I0012872).tif 4,797 × 3,826; 16.26 MB
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Boathouses by the water (St. Lawrence River?), Brockville (I0003876).tif 3,700 × 2,846; 8.71 MB
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Boer War parade in Kingston (I0003976).tif 3,875 × 2,733; 7.59 MB
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Bowen house, Iroquois (I0012892).tif 4,487 × 3,416; 11.44 MB
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Boy with muskellunge fish. Photograph of a framed photograph. (I0013452).tif 2,387 × 3,387; 3.75 MB
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Boys and girls in the snow by Shannon's pine tree (I0013104).tif 4,594 × 3,848; 15.05 MB
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Boys playing in the water in Picton Bay (I0003891).tif 3,700 × 2,883; 8.39 MB
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Boys posing outside girls' entrance to school, girls at windows (I0012960).tif 4,886 × 3,777; 16.85 MB
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Boys sailing prams in Picton harbour (I0013130).tif 4,896 × 3,488; 15.02 MB
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Boys seated along the edge of a stone bridge (I0013558).tif 4,819 × 3,816; 14.45 MB
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Brenda Small and Violet on the steps of the Frontenac County Court House (I0013000).tif 3,438 × 4,454; 10.99 MB
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Brickly Marsh (I0013031).tif 4,744 × 3,756; 12.53 MB
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Brickly Marsh (I0013091).tif 4,550 × 3,807; 16.04 MB
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Brickly Marsh (I0013092).tif 4,584 × 3,814; 14.29 MB
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Bridge to Hull and view of Parliament buildings (I0013027).tif 4,371 × 3,365; 10.15 MB
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Bridge with fallen span (I0003959).tif 3,800 × 2,769; 8.81 MB
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Brockville (three women and a boy posing in front of house) (I0012871).tif 4,822 × 3,837; 17.18 MB
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Brockville (view of creek) (I0012963).tif 4,692 × 3,999; 12.5 MB
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Broken railway trestle (I0003954).tif 3,825 × 2,762; 8.22 MB
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Buckle factory and mill, Westport (I0013236).tif 4,696 × 3,838; 14.63 MB
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Buckle factory, Westport (I0003901).tif 3,675 × 2,858; 9.01 MB
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Building draped for a Royal visit (I0013559).tif 3,883 × 4,683; 12.56 MB
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By Martintown (illegible writing), Jan. 1910 (snow-covered road through woods) (I0013069).tif 3,689 × 5,115; 20.81 MB
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C.P.R. station, Prince George Hotel and Kingston City Hall (I0012975).tif 4,661 × 3,847; 13.93 MB
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Camp, Dog Lake (I0013675).tif 4,565 × 3,255; 13.32 MB
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Campers doing laundry in the St. Lawrence River at Gananoque (I0013594).tif 3,272 × 4,529; 14.28 MB
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Campers eating breakfast on the St. Lawrence River at Gananoque (I0013592).jpg 15,629 × 11,167; 62.98 MB
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Campers seated on the shore of Loughborough Lake (I0013612).tif 5,046 × 2,484; 10.08 MB
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Campers swimming in Loughborough Lake (I0013610).tif 4,514 × 3,242; 10.51 MB
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Campers waving from their site on Loughborough Lake (I0013603).tif 4,564 × 3,268; 13.98 MB
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Camping at Brewers Mills (I0013132).tif 3,485 × 4,871; 16.73 MB
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Camping at Brewers Mills (I0013133).tif 3,447 × 4,831; 17.22 MB
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Camping at Lyndhurst Point (I0013647).tif 4,505 × 3,240; 11.78 MB
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Camping, Grassy Point, Charleston Lake (I0013672).tif 4,560 × 3,285; 13.04 MB
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Cannon being fired, Fort Henry (I0013659).tif 4,458 × 3,170; 8.39 MB
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Cannons at Fort Henry, Kingston (I0003974).tif 3,800 × 2,826; 8.14 MB
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Cannons on Fort Henry's walls (I0013046).tif 4,805 × 3,909; 16.91 MB
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Carleton House which may be a hotel in Cornwall (I0003951).tif 3,850 × 2,787; 9.3 MB
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Castle Inn (I0013080).tif 5,028 × 3,602; 17.69 MB
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Cattle grazing near a cemetery (I0013407).tif 4,490 × 3,195; 11.33 MB
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Cattle laying on a sand hill, Prince Edward County (I0013175).tif 4,997 × 3,399; 12.15 MB
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Causeway between canal and river (I0013320).tif 5,052 × 3,623; 18.23 MB
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Cavalry (show), Kingston (I0013006).tif 4,637 × 3,792; 13.58 MB
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Cavalry in front of Kingston Courthouse (I0003967).tif 3,900 × 2,732; 7.59 MB
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Cavalry in front of Royal Military College (I0012980).tif 5,180 × 3,831; 17.25 MB
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Cavalry in front of the Frontenac County Court House (I0012929).tif 5,246 × 3,764; 18.13 MB
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Cawthra Mulock's 'Adele' (I0013127).tif 4,892 × 3,488; 14.54 MB
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Cedar Park Hotel, Charleston Lake (I0012965).tif 4,803 × 3,893; 16.55 MB
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Cemetery Road, Brockville (I0012879).tif 4,451 × 3,365; 10.58 MB
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Central School (I0013014).tif 4,375 × 3,449; 11.39 MB
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Ceremony beside railroad tracks, involving military and civilian persons (I0013041).tif 4,512 × 3,677; 14.85 MB
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Ceremony beside railroad tracks, involving military and civilian persons (I0013042).tif 4,206 × 4,175; 13.22 MB
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Charleston Lake (I0013135).tif 4,805 × 3,397; 18.82 MB
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Charleston Lake (I0013242).tif 3,894 × 4,700; 16.14 MB
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Charleston Lake (I0013244).tif 4,673 × 3,821; 16.21 MB
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Charleston Lake (I0013251).tif 4,708 × 3,854; 14.56 MB
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Charleston Lake (I0013254).tif 4,696 × 3,843; 15.14 MB
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Chaudiere Falls (I0013026).tif 4,380 × 3,356; 9.77 MB
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Child standing on a river bank with buildings in background (I0013561).tif 4,725 × 3,786; 15.35 MB
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Children by snowbanks in Gananoque (I0012910).tif 5,270 × 3,829; 17.01 MB
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Children making a scarecrow in a field (I0013506).tif 3,799 × 4,828; 15.59 MB
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Children playing hockey (I0013567).tif 4,700 × 3,794; 11.93 MB
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Children playing in snow in front of Picton harbour (I0003983).tif 3,825 × 2,788; 9.4 MB
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Children with horses (I0013499).tif 4,513 × 3,457; 8 MB
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Church in winter with a field in the foreground (I0013501).tif 3,523 × 4,561; 9.13 MB
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Church of St. Mary Magdalene (I0012998).tif 3,731 × 5,193; 19.7 MB
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Church ruins, Brockville (I0012880).tif 4,371 × 3,368; 11.6 MB
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Church with fence and trees in foreground (I0013510).tif 4,798 × 3,848; 17.77 MB
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Classroom in small school (Gananoque?) (I0012913).tif 5,367 × 3,827; 14.57 MB
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Coat of arms of John Eley Kemp (I0013197).tif 3,690 × 5,002; 13.28 MB
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Coat of arms of John Eley Kemp (I0013198).tif 3,698 × 5,022; 12.39 MB
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Colonel Bogy standing in a field of poppies, Picton (I0013390).tif 4,822 × 3,854; 15.85 MB
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Colquhoun elm tree on First Street East in Cornwall, Ontario- (I0013540).tif 4,679 × 3,312; 15.7 MB
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Colquhoun's willows (I0012906).tif 5,300 × 3,807; 18.78 MB
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Comstock Tower, near Brockville (I0012881).tif 4,469 × 3,411; 10.32 MB
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Conger Falls and Hallowell Mills (I0003898).tif 2,850 × 3,691; 8.33 MB
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Convent with livestock standing in front (I0013409).tif 3,631 × 5,112; 17.92 MB
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Cooper's hop yard (I0012859).tif 4,776 × 3,818; 13.18 MB
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Corner of Main and Ferguson Streets, Picton (I0013142).tif 4,720 × 3,592; 12.06 MB
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Cornwall (winter street scene) (I0012907).tif 3,843 × 5,329; 19.68 MB
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Cornwall canal (I0012950).tif 5,204 × 3,776; 13.59 MB
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Cornwall canal (I0012951).tif 3,780 × 5,117; 14.53 MB
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Cornwall General Hospital (I0012903).tif 5,280 × 3,790; 15.88 MB
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Cornwall Public Library (I0012946).tif 3,550 × 4,823; 18.37 MB
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Cornwall Standard Office (I0012904).tif 3,752 × 5,317; 14.97 MB
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Cornwall Standard office (I0012947).tif 5,153 × 3,758; 16.16 MB
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Cornwall Standard Office and Balmoral Hotel (I0012948).tif 3,758 × 5,267; 19.07 MB
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Cornwall, two women walking (I0012908).tif 3,855 × 5,339; 18.75 MB
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Country picnic (I0003932).tif 3,700 × 2,838; 9.08 MB
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Country road running along the lakeshore (I0013579).tif 4,502 × 3,262; 13.6 MB
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Country road with large tree and farmhouse in background (I0013580).tif 3,256 × 4,561; 14.81 MB
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Couple posed against trees (I0013527).tif 3,620 × 5,009; 15.04 MB
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Cows standing near the woods, possibly Rolston farm (I0013232).tif 8,280 × 10,296; 64.52 MB
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Crowd of children at docks (I0013379).tif 5,015 × 3,609; 13.76 MB
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Crowd of men at harbour (I0013376).tif 5,079 × 3,634; 18.26 MB
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Cutter and horses (I0013404).tif 4,816 × 3,878; 16.49 MB
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Cutting ice, Picton harbour (I0003982).tif 5,434 × 3,825; 25.76 MB
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Dam under construction in Iroquois (I0003882).tif 3,700 × 2,849; 8.26 MB
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Decorated main street (I0003960).tif 3,913 × 2,689; 8.57 MB
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Dell Woods, Charleston Lake (I0013240).tif 4,789 × 3,854; 12.93 MB
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Dell Woods, Charleston Lake (I0013241).tif 4,796 × 3,851; 13.13 MB
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Dell Woods, Silver Island Bar (I0013243).tif 4,821 × 3,859; 13.95 MB
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Devil's Island, poison ivy, Singleton Lake (I0013671).tif 3,238 × 4,541; 15.45 MB
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Display of group of photographs of Half Moon Bay (I0012957).tif 3,743 × 5,155; 15.55 MB
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Display of photographs depicting Gananoque schools (I0012956).tif 3,557 × 4,879; 13.48 MB
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Distant view of Kingston, Martello tower in foreground (I0012930).tif 5,244 × 3,906; 10.65 MB
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Distant view of rural church (I0013535).tif 5,011 × 3,612; 17.1 MB
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Dog in the woods, Brockville (I0013401).tif 4,607 × 3,863; 18.85 MB
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Dr. H. Kemp of Rochester, New York, at Collins Bay (I0013366).tif 5,030 × 3,605; 16.36 MB
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Drawing room (I0013317).tif 5,065 × 3,591; 14.83 MB
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Dredge at work repairing fallen bridge span (I0003958).tif 3,825 × 2,774; 8.05 MB
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Duke's visit to Royal Military College (I0013003).tif 4,453 × 3,391; 11.17 MB
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Duke's visit to Royal Military College (I0013004).tif 4,381 × 3,366; 10.57 MB
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Edith Heffernan at the Picton post office (I0003892).tif 3,600 × 2,959; 8.72 MB
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Elm tree by Dr. Walmsley's house, Picton (I0013162).tif 3,249 × 4,439; 13.46 MB
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Elm tree by Dr. Walmsley's with two men standing by trunk (I0013163).tif 3,228 × 4,570; 12.82 MB
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Elm tree by Dr. Walmsley's, Picton, with boys on bicycles at its base (I0013207).tif 3,640 × 5,024; 17.19 MB
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Elm tree by Dr. Walmsley's, Picton, with women strolling nearby (I0013208).tif 3,452 × 4,760; 16.34 MB
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Employees standing outside tomato cannery, Picton (I0013109).tif 4,877 × 3,470; 16 MB
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English Church, Bath, Ontario (I0003944).tif 3,600 × 2,936; 11 MB
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Ethel Brewster and Kemp outside (I0013334).tif 3,478 × 4,562; 13.18 MB
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Ethel Brewster posed outdoors (I0013496).tif 3,508 × 4,559; 10.73 MB
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Ethel Brewster standing outside in the snow (I0013335).tif 4,510 × 3,433; 9.2 MB
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Factory by the lakeshore (I0013547).tif 5,045 × 3,595; 13.41 MB
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Family group in front of a house (I0013473).tif 3,790 × 4,702; 15.53 MB
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Family group posing in front of house (I0013450).tif 4,562 × 3,456; 11.46 MB
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Family seated on veranda of the manse of the Methodist Church - Picton, Ontario-- (I0013306).tif 5,034 × 3,609; 15.53 MB
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Fire brigade on street outside Cornwall own hall (I0012944).tif 5,209 × 3,790; 16.51 MB
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Fire brigade on street outside Cornwall Town Hall (I0012945).tif 5,130 × 3,708; 16.41 MB
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Five women (one in a wheelchair) (I0013294).tif 3,628 × 5,056; 17.23 MB
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Five women outside, one in a wheelchair and two in a hammock (I0013295).tif 3,656 × 5,094; 16.68 MB
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Five young women by the shore (I0013489).tif 4,459 × 3,401; 10.86 MB
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Flood waters passing by a farm (I0013574).tif 4,554 × 3,524; 11.24 MB
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Fort Henry cannons (I0013060).tif 5,025 × 3,600; 19.52 MB
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Fort Henry, Kingston (I0003975).tif 3,825 × 2,755; 8.82 MB
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Fortifications at Fort Henry and view of Cedar Island (I0013045).tif 4,677 × 3,926; 17.19 MB
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Foster's Hotel, Charleston Lake (I0012966).tif 4,649 × 3,858; 16.79 MB
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Four girls having a laugh (I0013484).tif 4,428 × 3,443; 9.08 MB
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Four girls posing on a railway bridge (I0012971).tif 4,678 × 3,911; 15.38 MB
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Four women and two men sitting outside (I0013293).tif 5,075 × 3,616; 16.28 MB
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Four women posed outdoors (I0013469).tif 4,699 × 3,775; 13.36 MB
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Four women standing by a creek and waterfall (I0013495).tif 3,522 × 4,559; 9.12 MB
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Frank and Joe fishing at Montgomery's, Wolfe Island (I0013424).tif 4,508 × 3,465; 8.45 MB
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Frank standing at the bottom of sand dune (I0013148).tif 4,728 × 3,631; 13.95 MB
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Franklin House, Kingston (I0013017).tif 4,464 × 3,394; 12.76 MB
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Fred Gill, Brockville (I0013359).tif 4,822 × 3,868; 17.05 MB
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Frontenac County Court House in Kingston (I0012923).tif 5,256 × 3,779; 18.42 MB
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Frontenac County Court House in Kingston (I0012924).tif 5,272 × 3,756; 19.97 MB
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Frontenac County Court House in Kingston (I0012925).tif 3,800 × 5,252; 18.54 MB
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Frontenac County Court House in winter (I0012979).tif 4,738 × 3,358; 17.07 MB
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Frontenac County Court House in winter (I0013001).tif 4,447 × 3,380; 9.78 MB