1893 (ca.) - Major W.R. Bell posed in a Calgary studio photo

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Major Bell, posing in a studio between 1893 and 1894, when Robert Randolph Bruce took a number of photos of important western personalities at his photographic studio in Calgary. Many of those photos, with the same chair and background, are currently housed at the McCord Museum in Montreal, Quebec.

SOURCES:

  • Photo: Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan: Bell Family Collection - Shelagh (Bell) Whitaker

  • Photo: The original negative for this photos is housed at the McCord Museum, Montreal, and is catalogued as: MP-0000.583.66 | Man with stuffed owl, Calgary, AB, 1893-94
    http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/MP-0000.583.66

  • Biography for R.R. Bruce

RESEARCH BY:

Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask., and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.

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