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Document Description
Title
Newfoundland
Scenery
presented
to
Joseph
Laurence
Description
This
album
of
photographs
appears
to be the
work
of
Simeon
H.
Parsons
(1844-1908)
,
one
of
Newfoundland's
earliest
professional
,
self-taught
and
award-winning
photographers.
The
photographs
are
very
much
in the
style
for
which
Parsons
was
noted
and
cover
a
wide
geographic
area
,
including
the
Burin
Peninsula
and
coastal
Labrador
, in
addition
to
more
easily
accessible
areas
such
as
St.
John's
and
eastern
Newfoundland
communities.
Internal
evidence
dates
some
of the
images
to
around
1884-1885
, and
given
that the
recipient
of the
album
,
Joseph
Laurence
,
died
in
October
1886
,
it
would
appear
safe
to
assume
that the
album
was
compiled
during
those
middle
years
of the
1880s.
Some
of the
images
may
date
earlier
,
possibly
from
stock
photographs
Parsons
may
have had on
hand.The
album
contains
some
rare
images
of
St.
John's
streets
and
buildings
that were
later
destroyed
in the
1892
fire
that
ravaged
most
of the
downtown
of the
city.
It
also
contains
images
of
people
at
work
in the
fishery
,
particularly
on the
coast
of
Labrador;
various
communities
on the
Burin
Peninsula
and on the
east
coast
of
Newfoundland;
rural
scenes
,
including
rivers
,
lakes
and
waterfalls;
icebergs;
groups
of
people
,
particularly
several
gatherings
of
Methodist
clergy
,
some
of
whom
Laurence
was
probably
responsible
for
sending
to
Newfoundland.The
album
should
prove
beneficial
to
researchers
interested
in
architectural
and
municipal
development
, the
development
of
Methodism
, the
history
of
photography
, the
work
of
Simeon
Parsons
, and a
variety
of
other
subjects
pertaining
to
Newfoundland
in the
latter
half
of the
Nineteenth
Century.
Subject
Newfoundland and Labrador--19th century--Pictorial works
Date
[1880-1889?]
Physical Description
The album measures 37.5 x 28 x 4.5 cm, is hardbound and covered with a dark green leather. It contains 77 pages of card stock with 168 photographic images.
Location
Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador
Time Period
19th Century
Language
Eng
Resource Type
Book
Type
Text
Format
Image/jpeg;
Application/pdf
Source
Original
held
in the
Archives
and
Special
Collections
Division.
Finding Aid
http://collections.mun.ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ead&CISOPTR=262
Collection
Archives
-
Digitized
Collections
Identifier
ADC-0005
Repository
Memorial
University
of
Newfoundland.
Libraries.
Archives
and
Special
Collections
Division
CONTENTdm file name
475.cpd
