Photograph, Silver Gelatin: Ottawa Normal School Class, 1910
Entry/Object ID
2014.002.01.13
Description
One large rectangular black and white silver gelatin photograph mounted on a plain heavy black matte depicting twenty-one ladies posing in three rows; the back row is standing, the middle row is seated and the front row is seated on the floor, taken in the Topley photographic studio. All of the ladies are in white dresses and the photograph represent the class of the Ottawa Normal School of 1910. Ms. Ellen "Ellie" Baskerville is seated in the middle of the middle row with her left hand behind her head.
Made/Created
Date made
1910
Notes
Photographic, card
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Transcription
Topley seal in lower proper right.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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
Search Terms
Photograph, Photograph
Legacy Lexicon
Object Name
Photograph, Silver gelatin
Dimensions
Height
27.5 cm
Width
35 cm
Depth
0.2 cm
Research Notes
Notes
Ellen "Ellie" Hardy Baskerville was born on 06 October 1890 in Montana, USA to Thomas Hardy Baskerville (1853- 1891) and Margaret Jane Barrett (1860- 1936), both natives of Carleton County, Ontario. After the death of her father, who had moved the family to Montana following the lumber industry, the family (Margaret, Ellie and her sister Jane) returned to Ottawa. Ellie attended Lisgar Collegiate (then Ottawa Collegiate Institute) where she was the editor of the Vox and the valedictorian of her class in 1907. Ellie then attended the Ottawa Normal School where she trained as a kindergarten teacher, producing several training books and essays based on Froebel; very cutting edge for the times. Shortly after graduating, Ellie contracted polio and unfortunately she passed away on 23 August 1910 at just 20 years old. She is buried in Ramsayville Cemetery.
