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Samuel Helpert
- Accession Number
- 2013-12-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-12-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w with watercolour retouching ; 26 x 41 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1906]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a portrait of Samuel Helpert of Sudbury, shortly after arriving from Minsk, Russia. The photograph was originally a glass plate negative that was blown-up and printed. Watercolours were then used to colourize the image and as a way of emphasising the contrast and other features that were lost during the printing process.
- Administrative History
- Samuel Helpert was the paternal great uncle of the donor. He was born in Minsk, Russia and immigrated to Canada where he lived in Sudbury and Toronto.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Subjects
- Portraits
- Name Access
- Helpert, Samuel
- Places
- Russia
- Sudbury (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions