Accession Number

2012.007.003.001

Description

A black leather photo album. Front has the word 'Photographs' embossed in gilt lettering bottom right side. The album is held together by a white string from the back cover through each page to the front cover. There are 87 black pages, which are all filled with black and white photographs.

Narrative

This album documents the life and times of the James and Laura Dunsmuir family from about 1910 onward. The album includes scenes at Hatley Park in Colwood, B.C. and locations in Europe, including a battlefield tour of Northern France in the early 1920s with Dola Dunsmuir, her sister Muriel and Muriel's husband, Edward Molyneux. Dola's brief attendance at Miss Ransom and Miss Bridges School for girls in Piedmont, California from 1920 to 1921 is also documented through informal photographs of friends. Also included is the family trip to Egypt in 1912.

History of Use

This photograph and the Dunsmuir family album that it comes from was passed down through Laura Dunsmuir's daughter Dola Frances Dunsmuir (Mrs. Henry Cavendish) to the family of her sister Kathleen Euphemia Dunsmuir (Mrs. Seldon Humphreys) from whom it was acquired by The Castle Society in 2012.  

Dimensions

21 x 27.2 cm

Material

Leather