$60.00 CAD
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Beautiful large photo of hay bales in field with farm buildings in the background
Written on back “Farm Buildings, Clover Bar, Alta.”
Only information I could find on this photo was from a copy held by the Provincial Archives of Alberta:
On the back is a faint purple square stamp with ‘CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY NO. 5236'
Number on negative at bottom right '-378'.
Can't date when this photo was developed.
6 ¼” x 8 ⅛”
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
Harry Pollard, son of photographer James Pollard, was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario in 1880. He moved west in May 1899 and set up a photographic studio in Calgary, Alberta. Pollard became a well-established photographer in the community. His famous collection includes photographs of the Klondike gold rush of 1888 and 1889, and hundreds of pictures of Alberta Indians. In 1924 the Associated Screen News, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), hired Pollard to photograph their global ocean cruises for promotional purposes. It was this job that took him around the world 14 times...
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