Fonds 1069 - Blake Wrong family fonds

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UTA 1069

Title

Blake Wrong family fonds

Date(s)

  • [188-] - [192-] (Creation)

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0.7 m of textual records
53 photographs: b&w; 20 x26 cm or smaller
1 album containing 56 photographs

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Biographical history

Family members include Samuel H. Blake and his wife Rebecca Blake, Edward Blake and Gerald Blake, as well as cousins Murray, Hume and Harold Wrong.

Samuel H. Blake is the brother of Edward Blake (1833-1912). Rebecca Blake is the sister of Margaret Blake (1837-1917).

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This accession of the Blake Wrong Family Fonds consists mainly of family portraits, small photographs and one album. Included are portraits of Samuel and Rebecca Blake, Gerald, Margaret, Francis and Vershoyle Blake as well as Harold, Murray and Hume Wrong.

There is also some memorabilia belonging to various members of the Wrong and Blake families including Harold Wrong, Murray Wrong and Gerald Blake. There are items relating to Ridley College (1906, 1923), to the Kappa Alpha Society (1911-1916), as well as two booklets of poems: 1) Verses by Harold Wrong, and 2) By-Products 1911-1919 by Murray Wrong. As well, there are there two pieces of correspondence written by Gerald Blake from the front during World War I.

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B2009-0019/001

Retrieval code (photographs)

B2009-0019/001P and /002P

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Added to AtoM by Karen Suurtamm, April 2016

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