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Riverview Farms - family album

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Item Types

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Scrapbooks

Description

30 black and white photographs of "Riverview Farms" that include photos of peach orchards, family grups, Janet Carnochan, peach packing house and Christmas.
Most photographs without detailed description.

Notes

Mounted scrapbook sheets.
From the collection of Armstrong family.

Inscriptions

QC00539-01 side
"Riverside Fruit Farms"

QC00539-01 top
"Peaches ready for shipment in old packing shed"

QC00539-01 middle
"Peach Orchard in blossom"

QC00539-01 bottom
"Wallace disking"

QC00539-02 top
"Young peach orchard"

QC00539-02 middle
"Niagara Historical Society Picnic. 1909. at Brock's Monument"

QC00539-02 bottom
"Class 11. Horticulture. esOAC. Queenston Oct. 1 1910"
"P.C.P."
"O.A.C. Students at Armstrong's Peach Orchard"

QC00539-03 top left
"Mrs Trimble, Dorothy, Isabel, Muriel, Mrs Ital Sheppard"

QC00539-03 top right
"Dorothy in Go. Cart"

QC00539-03 bottom left
"Maud and Wallace"

QC00539-03 bottom right
"Smoking on the verandah."

QC00539-04 top
"Old Boys Re-Union. 1913."
"Mrs Leslie, Mr Prest, Ms Field, Mrs Vroman, Mrs. Frinkes, Mr Bradley, Mr Frinkes, Mr SoloVroman, Mrs Wallace Armstrong"

QC00539-04 bottom
"Wallace, Rilla, Arthur. Hamilton Beach"

QC00539-05 top left
" "Billy" "

QC00539-05 bottom left
" "Billy" "

QC00539-05 bottom right
"On the Bank of Niagara"

QC00539-07 left
"On the Lawn at Wallace's"

QC00539-07 right
"Miss Carnochan, Historian of Niagara"

QC00539-08
"at Wallace's"

QC00539-09 top left
"New Packing House 1909"

QC00539-09 top right
"Bill Tawor OAC"
"WWA 1909"

QC00539-09 bottom left
"Horses in Barnyard"

QC00539-09 bottom right
"At packing house door"
"1903"

QC00539-10 top
"Old Packing House 1895"

QC00539-10 bottom
"19"

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