Photographic still of the Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society’s rendition of the Edwardian musical comedy “Floradora” which includes tambourines and gauzy costumes. In the Back row, left to right, are: Gertrude Burton, Margie Roxborough, and Jean Harper. Middle row, left to right, are: Channis Irwin, Mary Schutte, and Myrtle Purdy. Front row, left to right, are: Phyllis Clements and Nita Herbert. The production was on stage at the Empress Theatre, December 6-8, 1923, and included a chorus of over 100 voices, 16-piece orchestra of live musicians, and tickets were on sale for $1.50 – or 50 cents for a matinee! Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. December 6, 2023 image. Photographer not given. From a scrapbook in the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Collections. Accession #0065-0004. Fair use license. The photograph itself being in the public domain due to age. via Esplanade Arts and Heritage @medhatesplanade on Instagram. Taken from their Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/medhatesplanade/p/DR2dM22j4yX/
Chris Robertson in “A Country Girl,” from a 1921 production staged by the Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Photographer not given. From a scrapbook in the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Collections. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Accession Number #0521.0040. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://collections.esplanade.ca/list?q=Medicine+Hat+Amateur+Operatic+Society&p=1&ps=20A man and two women dressed in oriental costume for the play “San Toy”. The man is probably Chris (Robertson) MacDonald. No exact date but ca. 1920.Still from a production staged by the Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. From a scrapbook in the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Collections. Cooke Studio, Medicine Hat, photographers. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Accession Number #0521.0040. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://collections.esplanade.ca/list?q=Medicine+Hat+Amateur+Operatic+Society&p=1&ps=20 Six young women dressed for their parts as “peasant” girls in the Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society production “Chimes of Normandy” which took place at the Empress Theatre December 31, 1920 and January 1, 1921. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Photographer not given. From a scrapbook in the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Collections. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Accession Number #0521.0028. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://collections.esplanade.ca/list?q=Medicine+Hat+Amateur+Operatic+Society&p=2&ps=20 Unidentified young woman in oriental dress holding a fan – production in Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society of ‘San Toy.’ Character undetermined. ca. 1920. Still from a production staged by the Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Cooke Studio, Medicine Hat, photographers. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Accession Number #0521.0005. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://collections.esplanade.ca/list?q=Medicine+Hat+Amateur+Operatic+Society&p=2&ps=20View of the entire cast in costume of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” on stage at the Empress Theatre in Medicine Hat for its December 17th and 19th 1914 production by the Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. E. G. Macdonald, photographer for Royal Studios. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Accession Number #0525.0256. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://collections.esplanade.ca/list?q=Medicine+Hat+Amateur+Operatic+Society&p=3&ps=20 Myrtle Purdy, in a theatrical costume from the play “Florodora,” put on by Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, on December 6-8, 1923. Gainsborough Studio, Medicine Hat, photographers. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Center Accession Number #0065.0003 Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://collections.esplanade.ca/list?q=Medicine+Hat+Amateur+Operatic+Society&p=3&ps=20
PORTRAIT OF A HALF-BREED CREE GIRL. (sic). Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Frontispiece. Image 10 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n9/mode/1upNumber three – Indian Pipe. Page 14, Image 13 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/14/mode/1upNumber 6. – Group of Buffaloes. Page 143, Image 143 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/143/mode/1upFLAT-HEAD WOMAN AND CHILD. (sic). Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 235, Image 236 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n235/mode/1upPORTRAIT OF MAN-CE-MUCKT. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 296, Image 297 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n296/mode/1upPORTRAIT OF KEE-AKEE-KA-SAA-KA-WOD WITH PIPE-STEM. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 436, Image 437 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n436/mode/1upGROUP OF SIX INDIAN CHIEFS. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 460, Image 461 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n460/mode/1upMEDICINE PIPE-STEM DANCE. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 463, Image 464 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n463/mode/1upPORTRAIT OF AN ESQUIMAUX. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 475, Image 475 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n475/mode/1upWHITE MUD PORTAGE. Paul Kane, artist. Vincent Brooks, lithographer. Page 485, Image 486 of Paul Kane’s 1858 work Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America: from Canada to Vancouver’s island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territory and back again. Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Collections of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofarti00kane_0/page/n485/mode/1up
Lithographs made from Kane’s drawings which were done from life.
All these images are of the SS Corsican except for the menu. According to the same archive, the SS Corsican was built in 1907 by Barclay Curle in Glasgow. She served mostly on the Glasgow Service. In 1912, she collided with an iceberg but was only slightly damaged; was renamed the Maroale in 1922 and was wrecked two years later near Cape Race.
Ojibwa Camp, Northern Shore of Lake Huron. 1873. Canadian. Oil on canvas. Frederick Arthur Vener, painter (1836-1928). Image source; National Gallery of Canada. In the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1927. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_A.Verner–Ojibwa_Camp,_Northern_Shore_of_Lake_Huron(1873).jpgIndian encampment. 1891. Canadian. Watercolor on cardboard. Frederick Arthur Vener, painter (1836-1928). Image source; Sotheby’s Toronto. Signed on the lower right. In the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1927. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Arthur_Verner_-Indian_Encampment(1891).jpg
People of Sandwich Sound in their canoes. What is now known as Prince William Sound was first named “Sandwich Sound” by James Cook after his patron the Earl of Sandwich in 1778. It was later renamed for one of George III and Queen Charlotte’s sons. Bound facing page 68, 1778. British. Drawing drawn by John Webber (1752-1793). Archival ID#1409341 and PIC Volume 42 #NK7402. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1409341A marae in Tahiti (Sandwich Island). Tahiti having named “Sandwich island” by James Cook after his patron with the name changed to Tahiti after this was published. Bound facing page 128. 1777. British. Pencil and wash drawing drawn by John Webber (1752-1793). Archival ID#1411153. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1411153A view of Hippa Island, Queen Charlotte Isles. Off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Bound at page 204. 1777. British. Watercolor. Archival ID#2933876. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2933876A view in the bay at Woahoo, Sandwich Islands. Plate facing page 55. Published on January 17, 1789. Archival ID#313403. Engraving.Inigo Barlow, printer. Archival ID#313403. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/313403A view of the volcano, Cook’s River, taken from the Coal Harbour. Now known as Port Graham which is on the Kenai Peninsula, in present-day Alaska. Plate facing page 62. British. Published on January 7, 1789. Engraving. Inigo Barlow, printer. Archival ID#1240353. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1240353A view of Mount Edgecomb taken from the ship at anchor in Norfolk Sound. Near the present day Sitka, Alaska. Plate facing page 192. Published on January 7, 1789. British. Engraving. Inigo Barlow, printer. Archival ID#2764054. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2764054
An account of the fur-trading expedition fitted out by the King George’s Sound Company, with important results for the exploration and mapping of the American Northwest. These are the plates showing locations. There are also plates showing some of the individuals they encountered, tools and birds. The two ships were commanded by Dixon and the American-born Nathaniel Portlock, both veterans of James Cook’s last voyage. It includes accounts of the Hawaiian islands where they wintered in 1787-1788. The text was edited by Dixon from a series of letters by the Quaker, William Beresford.
