Carte-de-visite: Portrait of Alice Lauzon

Photograph

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Bytown Museum / Musée Bytown

Name/Title

Carte-de-visite: Portrait of Alice Lauzon

Entry/Object ID

2020.004.01.01

Description

One rectangular, sepia toned, full length, seated studio portrait depicting Alice Lauzon, aged years old, in 1894, from Charron Studios. Studio portrait shows a young girl in a dress and lace bonnet seated on a low wall in a portrait studio with her feet resting on a bale of hay and with her right arm supporting her head.

Made/Created

Date made

1894

Notes

Quantity produced: 1 Additional create date: 1894 paper, papier, photograph, photographie

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

manufacturer's name

Transcription

Front: "Charron // 460 SUSSEX ST. // Ottawa" and "CW" stylized monogram logo

Type

manufacturer's name

Transcription

Back: "Alice Lauzon // agee cinq ans // 1894" and "@ Madame Vitaline // Gratton"

Notes

ink

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Carte-de-visite

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Photographic print, Print, photographic, Photograph

Dimensions

Height

16.5 cm

Width

10.8 cm

Research Notes

Notes

Result: Identified Marie Laure Alice Lauzon was born on March 23, 1889 at Ottawa and baptized on March 24, 1889 at Notre Dame, the daughter of Exup�re Edouard Lauzon (b.1839; Quebec) and Marie Josephine Grenier (b.1849; Quebec).