Photo Negatives - Burnham Family

Photograph

Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

Mark and James Burnham - 2021.12.309a

The image captures two black-and-white vintage photos of children at a beach. In the top photo, two boys are seated on a rocky shore, each wearing sombreros and adorned in cowboy attire and holding toy pistols, that are aimed at the photographer. The lower photo features one boy wearing cowboy attire and holding a toy pistol.

Name/Title

Photo Negatives - Burnham Family

Entry/Object ID

2021.12.309

Description

Photos from the same negatives package. Shown in pictures are Mark Burnham (born 1948) and James Burnham (born 1949), dressed as cowboys on a beach, and in snowsuits while skating on ice. Mark and James are the two children of Dorothy and Harold Burnham.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Burnham, James "Jim", Burnham, Mark

Context

Dorothy was the first curator of textiles at the ROM.

Collection

Dorothy Burnham Collection

Cataloged By

Moira Friske

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1955

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Negative

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

of photo negative envelope

Height

9.5 cm

Width

15.5 cm

Dimension Description

of one photograph

Height

6.5 cm

Width

6.5 cm

Parts

Count

Parts

13 photos (some have 2 together, because they were never cut) and 1 envelope/sleeve that held the negatives

Location

Box

Room

Collections Hall

Building

M.V.T.M.

Moved By

Moira Friske

Date

August 2, 2024

Notes

Photograph Box

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Burnham, Dorothy, Burnham, Harold

Created By

r.milton@mvtm.ca

Create Date

August 2, 2024

Updated By

r.milton@mvtm.ca

Update Date

August 3, 2024