Collection search - Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway photographs and related records [multiple media]

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Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway photographs and related records [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1892-1956.

Reference:

R5500-925-3-E

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5483943

Context of this record:

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Andrew Audubon Merrilees fonds

Merrilees photographic and art collection

Photographs of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo, Michigan Central, Canada Southern, and other railway companies

Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway photographs and related records
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Date(s):

1892-1956.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

8 albums (ca. 1618 photographs): b&w, col.
x textual records
x graphic: art
cartographic material: 1 map

Language of material:

English

Accession:

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Andrew Merrilees collection [multiple media]

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This sub-series consists of Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway (TH&B) photos that were in the main taken by Andrew Merrilees for the period after 1932. At the beginning of the TH&B albums is a note dated 1 February 1956, signed by Andrew Merrilees, in which he states that "most of the photos since 1932 are the work of the writer. The older ones were secured from various sources...." He further states that " the collection of photos in these pages is an almost complete pictorial history of the TH&B Railway Co. From its beginnings down to the present day. ....The history of the Car Department, and the buildings, bridges and signalling of the company are also fully covered."

Within this sub-series are 8 albums as well as loose photographs. The albums are three ring binders, using plastic sleeves to hold the photographs. The majority of the photographs in the albums are of locomotives, often including several photographs of the same locomotive taken at different times, places, guises, or liveries. There are some exceptions, with shots of rolling stock, of stations, of station operations or of passenger operations. There are also photos of trains on the line, accidents, some bridges, and views of various rights of way as well as marshalling yards, ferries, etc.

Also mixed in with the photographs are other types of media, such as textual records, artwork, and cartographic material. These exceptions are as follows;

Introductory note, logos, map of service area, news clipping; 4 pages from magazines; 3 pages of forms, tickets, etc, 2 pages of tickets and other ephemera, 1 page poetry, 6 pages letters and orders.

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Source:

Private

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2007-00446-1
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Volume [R5500] 1565--1568

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