N-0000.25.1081 | Tobogganing "The Spill", Montreal, QC, composite, 1889, copied ca.1902

 
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Photograph, glass lantern slide
Tobogganing "The Spill", Montreal, QC, composite, 1889, copied ca.1902
William McFarlane Notman
About 1902, 19th century or 20th century
Silver salts on glass - Gelatin dry plate process
8 x 8 cm
Gift of Mr. Stanley G. Triggs
N-0000.25.1081
© McCord Museum
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Keywords:  Art (2774) , composite (312) , Photograph (77678)
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The increased action in the poses of the figures in the 1880s is due in large part to the faster emulsion speeds of the dry-plate negative material that came into common usage in 1880.

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References

  • Triggs, Stanley G. The Composite Photographs of William Notman, Montreal: McCord Museum of Canadian History, 1994