Category Archives: Gender

Work or play? c 1910

Work or play? c 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Betty Cameron

Women and girls with Brownie Cameras, c 1910

Women and girls with Brownie Cameras, c 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald Anne Louise MacDonald identified the camera held by the girl on the left as the Kodak No. 2, a folding pocket Brownie camera 1907; Middle: Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie in case; Right: Kodak Brownie No. 2 […]

Captain Alex MacDonald, early 1900s

Captain Alex MacDonald, early 1900s. Photography: Waldren Studios. Courtesy of Dalhousie University Archives, Waldren Studios Collection, 108-023. Restoration: Betty Cameron Jocelyn Gillis, Curator, Antigonish Heritage Museum, noticed the likeness in this photo to a man with a trumpet (3rd from left, front row) in a band photo in Pat Walsh’s (1989) The History of Antigonish, […]

Cross-dressing c 1910

Cross-dressing c 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Betty Cameron The history of women’s right to ride a bike coincided with the modern women’s movement in the 19th century. In 1895, Frances Willard, the long time President of the early American Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)and World’s WCTU wrote the book. How I Learned to […]

Millinery and photography, c 1915

Millinery and photography, c 1915. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Wayne Ezekiel. An advertisement under Local Items in The Casket , Thursday, April 8, 1897, p. 8: Miss Roberts, McCurdy & Co’s new milliner has just arrived and commenced work. The flattering testimonial she had from one of the largest millinery concerns in Boston […]

Sawing logs, c 1910

Sawing logs, c 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald.

The Marshall Women

The Marshall Women. Theresa Johnson, her mother Bridget Marshall, Mary Marshall, Paqtnkek. Courtesy of John R. Prosper, Paqtnkek. Restoration: Jeff Parker