What can you tell by looking at a face? What a man does for a living? His character? He does many things, for not only is Hugh Allan a great shipping magnate, he has coal and iron interests, invests in railways and real estate. He is, his family says, and they should know, a man of little sentiment, a man who believes in doing his duty. A man without vanity, who gets his picture taken.

Can you tell that William Macdonald is a tobacco magnate? That he produces the most popular tobacco in the country, yet does not smoke himself and believes tobacco is a filthy habit?

Lt. Garnet Wolseley declares his occupation in his dress. He is a soldier. He comes to Montreal from Britain with his regiment and finds he likes the city. “Life in Montreal was very pleasant,” he says. “Altogether it was an elysium of bliss for young officers, the only trouble being to keep single.”

Miss Hannah Willard Lyman, first principal of Vassar College, has made the education of her fellow women a career, while her brother Henry, an explorer, is said to have been the victim of savages in Sumatra.

Miss Ethel Bond is a more typical Victorian. She has come to the studio with a chaperone, for she cannot go out alone, an unmarried beauty, waiting to be chosen.

For a photograph here of Jefferson Davis and his wife in Montreal [incomplete thought]. Jefferson Davis, of course, was the president of the Confederate States of America. And in the latter stages of the war he sent his family up to Montreal. He was imprisoned after the war for a couple of years and then in 1867 he came to Montreal himself, to live there, which they did for I think upwards of a year, and of course as a famous personage went to the Notman studio.

And here they are, um, in the studio in a very formal portrait, um, with the appropriate Victorian kind of draperies surrounding them and the fake background. Looks surprisingly vigorous for someone who has just lost a war.