Tag Archives: 1900

Rebecca Ash, c. 1900

Rebecca Ash, c. 1900. Courtesy of Waldren Studio Collection, Dalhousie University Archives. Restoration: Jeff Parker.

Women’s right to ride, turn of the century

Women’s right to ride, turn of the century. Courtesy of Dalhousie University Archives, Waldren Studios Collection, 108-001. The local news in The Casket of May 27, 1897, p. 8, doubled as a classified section: “ C. B. Whidden & Son have been adding to their bicycle lines new ladies’ and gents’ bikes, and a new […]

Captain Alex MacDonald, early 1900s

Captain Alex MacDonald, early 1900s. Photography: Waldren Studios. Courtesy of Dalhousie University Archives, Waldren Studios Collection, 108-023. Restoration: Betty Cameron Jocelyn Gillis, Curator, Antigonish Heritage Museum, noticed the likeness in this photo to a man with a trumpet (3rd from left, front row) in a band photo in Pat Walsh’s (1989) The History of Antigonish, […]

Milkmaids, Antigonish County, early 1900s

  Milkmaids, Antigonish County, early 1900s. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald     The History of Aprons on Facebook, which includes this photo, would also explain about milkmaids wearing aprons.   https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152109083201188&set=a.106537651187.98622.575201187&type=1      

Palace Clothing Company and T. J. Bonner on Main Street, c 1900

Palace Clothing Company and T. J. Bonner on Main Street, c 1900. Courtesy of Dalhousie University Archives, Waldren Studios Collection, 277-087. Restoration: Jeff Parker Postcards were made from the Waldren photo and printed in Germany. The mud, the the workman, the wheelbarrow, and the telephone have miraculously disappeared, and this before the day of Photoshop. […]

Pomquet Railroad Station, early 1900s

Pomquet Railroad Station. L-R: Simon Alfred Vincent, Jane Vincent, Effie Cross, Eddie Doiron and Lizzer, early 1900s. Courtesy of PomquetHéritage.   Restoration: Betty Cameron.     In conversation with May (Doiron) Bouchard, June 23, 2014. Going into Antigonish by train for the day meant dressing up. People would catch the early train in the morning and […]