Business and Professional Men of Whitby, 1895

Description

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Creator

W.E. O'Brien, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Types

Negatives

Photographs

Composite photographs

Description

Black and white negative of a photograph of a composite photograph consisting of the business and professional men of Whitby. Each of the men pictured in the composite are numbered 1-84.

1. Joseph King, leather manufacturer; 2. John S. Barnard, jeweller; 3. John Gale, teacher; 4. Richard S. Cormack, stationer; 5. James H. Brown, teacher; 6. Lyman T. Barclay, barrister; 7. David Mathison, baker; 8. James Walters, merchant; 9. Louis S. Bandel, barber; 10. George Hewis, butcher; 11. George Cormack, lumber dealer; 12. John T. Newport, wagon maker; 13. Duncan C. MacDonell, court clerk; 14. Anson G. Henderson, teacher; 15. Fred J. Jones, saddler; 16. William Brown, agricultural implements; 17. James Rutledge, lawyer; 18. John Brown, grocer; 19. Peter B. Warm, painter. 20. Peter Mathison, grocer; 21. Mathias W. Collins, cobbler; 22. William W. Tamblyn, principal; 23. William R. Howse, druggist; 24. Fred Gibson, grocer; 25. William Jeffre, farmer; 26. John Smith, baker; 27. Edward D. Warren, banker; 28. Thomas G. Jackson, traveller; 29. George H. Dartnell, judge; 30. James E. Willis, druggist; 31. James Henry, tailor; 32. George Sonley, butcher; 33. Samuel Quigley, cobbler; 34. Theodore A. McGillivray, lawyer; 35. Anthony Bandel, hotel keeper; 36. E. Richard Blow, coal; 37. William Juke, bicycle maker; 38. Jeremiah H. Long, grain merchant; 39. George Hewis, butcher; 40. Daniel Decker, jailer; 41. John Rice, farmer; 42. Thomas McCann, wagon maker; 43. Hugh HOwden, insurance; 44. Dr. Charles McGillivray, doctor; 45. John L. Smith, farmer; 46. Van B. Woodruff, hotel keeper; 47. Fred Howard Annes, journalist; 48. John Stanton, pressman; 49. William Bryan, tinsmith; 50. Arthur Lawler, grocer; 51. William H. Warner, coal and wood; 52. John D. Howden, postmaster; 53. Dr. Wellington Adams, dentist; 54. Rev. Dr. John Hare, principal; 55. S. W. Lowell, evaporator; 56. Philip Taylor, jeweller; 57. Dr. Frank Warren, doctor; 58. William Till, furniture and undertaker; 59. Edmund Stephenson, express; 60. Dr. P.G. Meldrum, doctor. 61. David Ormiston, lawyer; 62. George T. Mathison, grocer; 63. Hazzard W. Willcox, lumberman; 64. John F. Paxton, sheriff; 65. Edward J. Johnson, furniture; 66. William Westlake, contractor; 67. Charles King, leather maker; 68. William Marshall, carpenter; 69. John Burns, insurance; 70. James Walker, dry goods; 71. Thomas Colwill, drover; 72. William Johnston, insurance agent; 73. George Rice, blacksmith; 74. John Ball Dow, lawyer; 75. Henry Betts Taylor, banker; 76. John Saunders, cobbler; 77. William Burns, cobbler; 78. George V. Martin, saddler; 79. Frank Byran, clerk; 80. William G. Walters, dry goods; 81. John Ham Perry, registrar; 82. William H. Bewell, secretary; 83. Samuel Graham, publisher; 84. George Y. Smith, lawyer.

Notes

Composite displays 84 business and professional men. Each portrait was taken individually and then pasted onto a backdrop. It was then rephotographed.

Underneath the the portrait photographs are three photographs of Whitby landmarks. On the left is Burr Lodge which was located at Centre and James Streets. Jeffrey Flats at Lynde Creek is in the centre and the Ontario Ladies' College is pictured at right.

Inscriptions

The names of all of the men in the composite are handwritten in ink along both edges of the photograph.

Handwritten in ink along the bottom of the photograph: 'Burr Lodge. Jeffrey Flats. Ontario Ladies' College.'

Printed underneath the landscape photographs: 'Business and Professional Men of Whitby./W.E. O'Brien Photo'

Date of Original