Fonds 1069 - Blake Wrong family fonds

Identity area

Reference code

UTA 1069

Title

Blake Wrong family fonds

Date(s)

  • [188-] - [192-] (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

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

Context area

Name of creator

Blake Wrong family

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).

Repository

University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services (UTARMS)

Archival history

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Scope and content

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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      Finding aids

      File listing available for photographs, not textual records.

      Uploaded finding aid

      blake-wrong-family-fonds.pdf

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      Alternative identifier(s)

      Reference number

      B2009-0019/001

      Reference number (photographs)

      B2009-0019/001P and /002P

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

      Added to AtoM by Karen Suurtamm, April 2016

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