Photograph is a studio portrait of a men's lacrosse team. Two men are in suits and the remainder of the players are wearing striped sweaters and the goalie is wearing pads.
Notes
John Brodie is possibly in the photograph, back row, second from the left. Photograph date obtained from time period in which Rosetta Ernestine Carr worked in Winnipeg. (Source: Virginia G. Berry, “WATSON, ROSETTA ERNESTINE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 13, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed November 17, 2015, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/watson_rosetta_ernestine_13E.html.)
Photograph shows the five members of the 1911-1912 men's YMCA basketball team. From left to right, H. Hughes, H.A. Robinson, [Frederick Gallagher] F.G. McGuinness (Fred McGuinness' uncle), A.C. Pryke, and [Robert J.] R.J. Hosie
Notes
Negatives stored with photograph. Identifications made from Pirates Basket Ball Team Winners Cornell Trophy 1910--1912 and BCI Senior Basket Ball Team Winners of Cornell Trophey 1913 (uncatalogued YMCA photos, SJ McKee Archives)
Backing board is warped and has two large tears on the back. There is foxing on the image and board on the front
Custodial History
Image was donated to the McKee Archives in 2020 by Don Smith, Associate Curator/Manager of the Cornwall Community Museum/SD&G Historical Society and a volunteer with the City of Cornwall's Heritage Cornwall Committee. Smith was asked by a local used bookstore owner to find a home for a box of items they had acquired from the new owner of a Lancaster, ON are antique/collectibles operation.
Scope and Content
Composite portrait of the players, manager and president of the Wheat City Business College hockey team. The name and position/role of each man is written in the bottom right corner of their portrait.
Portrait of the 1910-1911 Brando College track team. Back Row (L to R): ?, Erlandson, J. Robinson, Oliver, C. McKee. Front Row (L to R): ?, J.R.C. Evans, ?, ?
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