Carte-de-visite: Portrait of Vitaline Grenier

Photograph

Bytown Museum / Musée Bytown

Name/Title

Carte-de-visite: Portrait of Vitaline Grenier

Entry/Object ID

2020.004.01.05

Description

One rectangular, sepia toned carte-de-visite head and shoulder studio portrait of Vitaline Grenier, c. 1890s, from Dorion Photographers.

Made/Created

Date made

1880

Notes

Quantity produced: 1 Additional create date: 1900 paper, papier, photograph, photographie

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

Front: "Dorion // 569 SUSSE ST, // Ottawa, Ont."

Transcription

Back: "Vitaline Grenier" and "V. T."

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

10.6 cm

Research Notes

Notes

Result: Identified Vitaline Grenier was born in Quebec in 1855, the daughter of Jean Baptiste Grenier and Josephine Lafleur. Vitaline married Louis Gratton (1850 “ 1922) at Notre Dame, Ottawa, on June 1, 1875. Louis and Vitaline had four children: Yvonne (1876), Alma (1877) , Maria (1880), and Charles (1883). She passed away at Ottawa in 1911.