William Gibson, ca.1853
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Daguerreotypes
- Description
- Daguerreotype photograph of an infant William Gibson.
- Notes
- William Gibson was the first son of Yeoman and Belinda Gibson. He was born at Whitby on 29 August 1852. Like his father, Gibson opened a grocery with a Mr. Sparvell at 102 Dundas St. W. in 1873. When their partnership dissolved, Mr. Gibson ran an establishment called the Whitby China Tea Store until 1886. Some time after that he moved to California and died at Pomona, California on 30 March 1924 and is buried there.
- Date of Original
- ca.1853
- Dimensions
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Width: 8 in
Height: 10 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Gibson
- Local identifier
- 31-009-620
- Collection
- Carl Mantz fonds
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.88342 Longitude: -78.93287
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- Donor
- Douglas Mantz
- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- William Gibson, ca.1853, unknown photographer. Whitby Archives 31-009-620
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from photographic print.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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