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Photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Neil McDonald

Item is a portrait photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Neil McDonald. Mrs. Neil McDonald seated on a wicker chair with Mr. Neil McDonald seated on its arm, 3/4 pose. Neil was born on July 12, 1853 in Wycocomagh, Cape Breton. He was married first to Mary Ann McDonald (1856-1894), and later to Mary Fraser (1853-1942), the latter of whom is pictured here. Neil died on May 29, 1931 in Thorburn.

Photograph of Mr. & Mrs. A.W. McDonald

Item is a wedding portrait of Mr. & Mrs. A.W. McDonald, the bride is seated with her husband seated on the edge of the chair; full pose. Alexander William "Sandy" McDonald (1861-1916) married Kate Willima Ross (1881-1938). Kate was from Blue Mountain. The couple never had children.

Photograph of Miss L. Bain & friend

Item is a photograph of Miss Lecettia Dora Bain and friend. Miss Bain was born on June 6, 1882 in Thorburn, Pictou County, and was married to James Emerson MacKay (1883-1964). The couple had 8 children, and Lecettia died on January 29, 1958 in Thorburn.

Photograph of Miss. Jessie Bell McDonald

Item is a portrait photograph of Miss. Jessie Bell McDonald, wearing glasses, a high-necked blouse and jacket with double lapels which stands up behind her neck, bust. Miss McDonald (1866-1928) married Daniel Duncan McDonald (1867-1939) in 1904. They had no children.

Photograph of Irene Abegail, the baby of Mr. Henry H. Cameron

Item is a portrait photograph of the oldest child of Mr. Henry Hugh Havelock Cameron and Anna Elizabeth Fraser seated looking over the arm of a carved chair, full pose. Irene Abegail was born March 1901 in Thorburn, Pictou County and died April 5, 1969. Irene had two living siblings: sister Alvera Sophia born in 1908, and brother Giles Grant born in 1911. Giles' twin Douglas Fraser died as a baby.

Photograph of Florence Isobel McDonald

Item is a photograph of Florence McDonald, bust. McDonald was born in 1904, the daughter of Duncan C. McDonald and Jessie Holmes McDonald. She never married, had no children, worked for most of her life in Boston, and died in 1995. Print from Nitrate Negative: 27-312
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