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The Notman Photographic Archives
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The Notman Photographic Archives
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| Abstract |
The author notes that when William Norman (1826-1891) opened his photographic studio in a tiny redbrick house on Bleury Street in Montreal in late 1856, the 30-year-old Scottish immigrant could not have dreamed that this small beginning would one day expand into a vast enterprise spanning four Canadian provinces and six states in the eastern USA. Nor, the author continues, could he have known that the business would be continued by his sons long after his death, and that the firm's production of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs would become the foundation of an archives of international repute. The Notman Photographic Archives, containing some 450,000 photographs, is housed in Montreal's McCord Museum. Im 1965, the author was hired as the curator of the museum's Notman Photographic Archives, a position he held for twenty-eight years.
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History of Photography
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Vol. 20
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no. 2
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180-185
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1996
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| Language |
en
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| Citation |
Triggs, Stanley G. “The Notman Photographic Archives.” History of Photography Vol. 20, no. 2 (1996): 180–185.
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