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Yacht Race Between the Surprise and the Ida

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_94
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Sketch signed W.B. Bruce

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080894.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a Wright Fruit Company storage facility.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080936.jpg
Item

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of employees inside the Wright Fruit Company building.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080811.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of the exterior of the Wright Fruit Company building at 25 York Street.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080829.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a Wright Fruit Company truck and driver.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080852.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a fleet of Wright Fruit Company trucks and drivers.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080886.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of workers inside the Wright Fruit Company storage facility displaying bananas.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080845.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a driver and truck of Wright Fruit Co. Limited stationed outside the entrance to the building.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080902.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a cooling machine outside the door to a cooling compartment at the Wright Fruit Company storage facility.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080837.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a fleet of trucks belonging to the Wright Fruit Company and eight employees standing beside them.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080860.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a Wright Fruit Company truck and driver in front of the company building.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080878.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of Wright Fruit Company workers in a fruit storage facility.

Superior Engravers

Wright Fruit Company

CA ON00131 00766-3-1-32022189080910.jpg
Item
1936

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a cooling machine at a Wright Fruit Company storage facility.

Superior Engravers

Work Parties

5-HPL_01031_00696s to HPL_01031_00697s
Item
1972

Part of Jimmy Lomax fonds

Material consists of 2 coloured photographs of the Children's Aid Society Christmas Party, 1972.

Work Parties

5-HPL_01031_00698s to HPL_01031_00712s
Item
1980s

Part of Jimmy Lomax fonds

Material consists of 15 coloured photographs of Jimmy Lomax as Santa Claus at Boilers Restaurant holiday work party, 1980s.

Woodhall's Dairy Limited

CA ON00131 00766-3-12-32022189080803.jpg
Item

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a delivery man delivering milk for Woodhall's Dairy Limited.

Superior Engravers

Wood Duck

10-1
Item
n.d.

Part of Hamilton Naturalists' Club

Material consists of 5 coloured photographs of the Wood Duck bird [photographer unknown].

William B. Neilson Ltd.

CA ON00131 00766-3-11-32022189080555.jpg
Item

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is an image of William Neilson Limited ice cream trucks at 987 King Street East, circa 1946.

Superior Engravers

Wilfred Johnson of Hamilton.

CA ON00131 03-HPL_01134_16l
Item

Part of Grafton & Co. Ltd.

White Motor Co. of Canada Ltd.

CA ON00131 00766-2-9-32022189080787.jpg
Item
1948

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of the exterior of White Motor Company of Canada Limited at 165 York Street, with a truck exiting through the garage door.

Superior Engravers

White Motor Co. of Canada Ltd.

CA ON00131 00766-2-9-32022189080779.jpg
Item
1948

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of the exterior of The White Motor Co. of Canada Ltd., located at 165 York Street, Hamilton.

Superior Engravers

Wentworth Radio & Auto Supply Co. Ltd

CA ON00131 00766-3-11-32022189080761.jpg
Item
1938

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of the east end branch of Wentworth Radio & Auto Supply Co. Ltd., founded by Herbert Slack, located at 179 Ottawa Street North, Hamilton.

Superior Engravers

Wedding Photograph

1
Item
1949

Part of Robert Lawrence fonds

Material consists of one photograph of Robert and Marion on their wedding day, August 6, 1949.

Weaver Coal Co.

CA ON00131 00766-2-10-32022189080753.jpg
Item
1953-03-10

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is a photograph of a worker filling a Gillies-Guy Fuel Oil truck at the Weaver Coal and Oil Company storage dock at the foot of Victoria Ave. The headquarters for Gillies-Guy was located at 65 James Street South.

Superior Engravers

Watson's Gas Station, Burlington Beach

CA ON00131 00766-3-11-32022189080738.jpg
Item
ca. 1946-1947

Part of Superior Engravers collection

Item is an image that depicts a street view of Watson's Gas Station, located at 49 Beach Road, Burlington Beach, circa 1946-1947.

Superior Engravers

Water colour scene with a large tree at the focal point

CA ON00131 01-1 - 1-HPL_00507_12
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Water colour scene of an unidentified church

CA ON00131 01-1 - 1-HPL_00507_01
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Walter Peace - Landscapes of Victorian Hamilton

Part of Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society fonds

Material consists of 1 audio recording on "Landscapes of Victorian Hamilton," by speaker Walter Peace.

W. J. Hennessey, Men’s Furnishing Department.

CA ON00131 03-HPL_01134_20l
Item

Part of Grafton & Co. Ltd.

Photograph by Bill Barrett, London.

W. D. Kearney of Advertising-Display.

CA ON00131 03-HPL_01134_22l
Item

Part of Grafton & Co. Ltd.

Photograph by Bill Barrett, London.

W. C. Hughes, Peterborough Branch.

CA ON00131 03-HPL_01134_10s
Item

Part of Grafton & Co. Ltd.

Portrait by The Roy Studio, Peterborough.

Volunteers at Halloween Party

CA ON00131 00919-6-9
Item
n.d.

Part of Iroquoia Bruce Trail Association fonds

The material consists of one coloured photograph of Iroquoia Bruce Trail Association volunteers Errol MacKenzie and Jeanne Keldson at a Halloween Party.

Velda M. Fisher, Office.

CA ON00131 03-HPL_01134_34l
Item

Part of Grafton & Co. Ltd.

Photograph by Bill Barrett, London.

Upper Ball's Falls at Jordan

CA ON00131 -32022191067939.jpg
Item
1951-07-28

Part of Spectator Negative collection, 1939-1998

Caption: "Jordan Beauty Spot - This is the upper Ball's Falls on the Twenty Creek a short distance south of Jordan village. About one-quarter mile to the north is the lower Ball's Falls where the water plunges over an 80-foot cliff into the ravine."

Murdoch, Bruce, 1895-1966

Untitled, South Shore Hamilton Harbour

CA ON00131 01-1 - 1-HPL_00507_40
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled, Hamilton Harbour

CA ON00131 01-1 - 1-HPL_00507_41
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled, Cootes Paradise

CA ON00131 01-1 - 1-HPL_00507_39
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled watercolour sketch of a marshy area

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_105
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled watercolour sketch of a flower

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_111
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled watercolour sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_93
Item
before 1881

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketches

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_121
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of the body of a horse and a duck

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_132
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of horses

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_131
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a woman leaning against an object

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_109
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a person’s face and a clenched hand

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_97
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a person standing in front of a gate

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_107
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a person possibly kneeling

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_104
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Written on the top right of the sketch is “Sketch by Blair Bruce”. The reverse has another sketch of a woman.

Untitled sketch of a person

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_95
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a house with trees in the front

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_103
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a house by water

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_92
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a house

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_100
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a horse’s face

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_113
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a horse’s body

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_114
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of a face

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_130
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Reverse is a pencil sketch

Untitled sketch of a face

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_98
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of 5 miniature drawings

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_115
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch of 3 drawings

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_116
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_101
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_102
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_108
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Forested area with a house in the lower right corner.

Untitled pencil sketches of 5 miniature drawings

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_125
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled pencil sketches

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_128
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled pencil sketch with a note in the middle

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_127
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

The top of the sketch reads “Sketches by Blair Bruce”.

Untitled pencil sketch of trees and a house

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_99
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

The reverse side has incomplete markings

Untitled pencil sketch of the body of a horse

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_120
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled pencil sketch of a woman’s face

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_129
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled pencil sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_123
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

This may be a preliminary sketch for the oil painting entitled “Time Passes” painted around 1883-1884.

Untitled pencil sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_119
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled pencil sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_122
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled pencil sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_124
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled pencil sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_117
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled pencil sketch

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_118
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled pencil outline of female body

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_126
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled painting sketch of a house surrounded by trees

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_96
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled painting of horses

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_106
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled painting of a hand or hands

CA ON00131 02-4 - 4-HPL_00507_112
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Untitled

Item
n.d.

Part of Jimmy Lomax fonds

Drawing of an owl in a tree. Signature of the artist: Daniel V.

Untitled

Item
n.d.

Part of Jimmy Lomax fonds

Drawing of Santa in his sleigh with his reindeer.

Untitled

Item
1984

Part of Jimmy Lomax fonds

Painting of Santa Claus leaning against an open mailbox full of presents. Signature of artist inscribed on the painting canvas: R.J. Hamilton, 84.

Untitled

Item
n.d.

Part of Jimmy Lomax fonds

Drawing of Santa Claus with the words, "To Santa Claus," [artist unknown].

Unidentified woman in costume

1-HPL_00782_s01_16
Item
n.d.

Part of Lewis Family fonds

The material consists of one photograph of an unidentified woman in a costume.

Unidentified woman in costume

1-HPL_00782_s01_15_32022201920242
Item
n.d.

Part of Lewis Family fonds

The material consists of one photograph of an unidentified woman in costume.

Unidentified woman in costume

1-HPL_00782_s01_18
Item
n.d.

Part of Lewis Family fonds

The material consists of one photograph of an unidentified woman in a costume.

Unidentified woman in costume

1-HPL_00782_s01_17
Item
n.d.

Part of Lewis Family fonds

The material consists of one photograph of an unidentified woman in a costume.

Unidentified woman.

CA ON00131 03-HPL_01134_37l
Item

Part of Grafton & Co. Ltd.

Photograph by Rapid Grip and Batten Limited, Toronto.

Unidentified photo of two men and a child

CA ON00131 02-4 - 3-HPL_00507_71
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

The back says “Lloyd Charlie” and “Gates at Dundurn.”

Unidentified photo

CA ON00131 02-4 - 3-HPL_00507_66
Item

Part of Bruce Family fonds

Students in art school class (Hamilton Art School) located on the second floor above the Hamilton Public Library which occupied those rooms from January 1890 to September 1909. Fred H. Sharp photographer stamped on the back.

Unidentified photo