Photograph, Silver Gelatin: Great Northwestern Telegraph and Cable Office, corner of Sparks and Metcalfe Streets, Ottawa
Entry/Object ID
2014.004.01.150
Description
One black and white rectangular silver gelatin reproduction print depicting the Great Northwestern Telegraph and Cable Office at the corner of Sparks and Metcalfe Streets, the four story stone building has dormer windows on the fourth floor and telegraph wires on the roof. There is a man sitting in an open window on the third floor; and two open windows on the second floor. The window on the first and second floors have architectural grotesques centered above the windows, the grotesques are male faces with facial hair. The sign above the door has a dark background with white printing "GREAT NORTHWESTERN // TELEGRAPH AND // CABLE OFFICE". There are additional signs on either side of the main entrance On the corner in front of the entrance is a large telegraph pole, and there are people on the sidewalk in front of the building. Written on the back of the photograph in pencil: "Great Northwestern Telegraph and Cable office // [Cor. Sparks & Metcalfe Sts.] // From a Topley photograph in the Public Archives ".
Made/Created
Notes
Photographic, PRINT, PRINT
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Transcription
On front: "1399"
Transcription
On reverse: "Great Northwestern Telegraph and Cable office // [Cor. Sparks & Metcalfe Sts.] // From a Topley photograph in the Public Archives"
