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Gallagher and Whatmough family fonds
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1888-1999, predominant 1888-1974 (Creation)
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9 cm of textual material 80 photographs
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Custodial history
The photographs were found in the original John Gallagher farm homestead at 241 Plains Road East, Burlington, Ontario which was purchased in 1998 by John Vice and Leslie Bullock. In 1999, they donated the photographs to the Society.
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The fonds consists of textual materials and photographs. The textual material consists of a small number of original documents such as a hand-written letter from Mrs. Jane A. Whatmough to her daughter, Annie Louise Gallagher, dated 1904, wedding invitations and funeral a programme, as well as Gallagher and Whatmough family trees compiled by Howard Gallagher (1887-1997), a Whatmough Family History compiled by Janet (Whatmough) Cureton in 1974, and a 1932 yearbook of the Ontario Agricultural College and Macdonald Institute (Guelph). Included is a typescript, "Greenwood Farm", by Grant A. Whatmough, 1976 (225 pages). There are 80 photographs. Some had labels or inscriptions, others were identified with the assistance of Grant A. Whatmough or the Gallagher and Whatmough Family Trees. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Photographs Gordon Gallagher Gallagher family Grant Al Gallagher Family trees/yearbook
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Most of the textual material was donated to the Burlington Historical Society by Gordon Gallagher, Howard Gallagher, and Kathleen Whatmough. Photographs were donated by Leslie Bullock and John Vice in 1999.
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The photographs have been placed in Mylar sleeves.
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- Gallagher, John (1826-1904) (Subject)
- Whatmough, Charles T. (1837-1885) (Subject)
- Whatmough, Isaac Abraham (1842-1911) (Subject)
- Whatmough, Grant Alan (1922-1999) (Subject)