Album of views and photographs of renderings of commercial buildings, row houses, residences, colleges, schools, and a bank interior, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
March 1883
Albumen silver prints
album (closed): 11,6 x 18,9 x 1,3 cm comps. (range): 10,5 to 15,7 x 9,4 to 15,9 cm sheets (range): 11 to 16 x 11,1 to 16,1 cm secondary support (range [bound; unbound]): 11 to 16,9 x 11,1 to 17,1 cm
PH1987:0817:001-020
- Album comprises 20 albumen silver prints mounted on 10 cardboard pages with red edging and bound with white tape. Six of the 10 pages are unbound. The outer cover is of blue leather with gilt lettering and bordered by two black lines. There are blue endpapers and title page, dedication page, and table of contents are brown paper with black typescript.
imprinted - by an unknown hand, in yellow ink, on the front cover, c.: "Winnipeg / Architecture." inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the page opposite the title page, u.r.: "$1250.-" imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on the title page, u.c.: "ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS / OF / WINNIPEG,"; c.l. to c.r.: "Comprising Colleges, Schools, Business Blocks, Terraces, Villa Residences, and Interior Views, showing fine details."; l.c.: "PHOTOGRAPHED BY F.V. BINGHAM, / FROM OUR OWN DESIGNS."; l.c. to l.l.: "BARBER & BARBER,"; l.r.: "ARCHITECTS, / ROBERTSON'S BLOCK."; l.l.: "WINNIPEG, MARCH, 1883 / C.A. BARBER."; and l.r.: "E.W. BARBER." imprinted and inscribed - in typescript and black ink, on the dedication page, from t. to b.: "WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE FIRM / To [John H R Molson Esq / Vice President Molsons [sic] Bank Montreal Que] / Please examine our work and references, / compare them, particularly as to cost, style / and the amount of extras, with any other / Architect's practice extended over the same / number of years, and we are satisfied you / will favour us with your patronage. / Yours very Respectfully, / Barber & Barber." [client's name inscribed on dotted line by an unknown hand in pen and black ink] imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on the verso of the dedication page, c.: "PRINTED AND BOUND BY / ROBT. D. RICHARDSON, / WINNIPEG." [within box] imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on the table of contents, u.c.: "INDEX"; u.l.: "NAME."; u.r.: "REFERENCE"; and in three columns, l. to r.: with image number, building name, design, contract, construction, or projected construction dates and client's names [this information appears as the alternate title in the records for each photograph]
Winnipeg; Manitoba; Canada;
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