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Carte-De-Visite and Cabinet Portrait Album at the Art Gallery of Ontario Melodie Hueber Ryerson University Ryerson University Digital Commons @ Ryerson Theses and dissertations 1-1-2012 Housing The aF mily: Re-Housing The etP erkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) Carte-De-Visite And Cabinet Portrait Album At The Art Gallery Of Ontario Melodie Hueber Ryerson University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ryerson.ca/dissertations Part of the Photography Commons Recommended Citation Hueber, Melodie, "Housing The aF mily: Re-Housing The eP terkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) Carte-De-Visite And Cabinet Portrait Album At The Art Gallery Of Ontario" (2012). Theses and dissertations. Paper 1420. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Ryerson. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ryerson. For more information, please contact [email protected]. HOUSING THE FAMILY: RE-HOUSING THE PETERKIN FAMILY (THERESA BYWATER PETERKIN) CARTE-DE-VISITE AND CABINET PORTRAIT ALBUM AT THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO by Melodie Hueber Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2007 A thesis presented to Ryerson University, the Art Gallery of Ontario and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in the program of Photographic Preservation and Collections Management Toronto, Ontario, Canada ©Melodie Hueber 2012 ii DECLARATION I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I authorize Ryerson University to lend this thesis to other institutions or individuals for the purpose of scholarly research. I further authorize Ryerson University to reproduce this thesis by photocopying or by other means, in total or in part, at the request of other institutions or individuals for the purpose of scholarly research. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. iii iv ABSTRACT Housing the Family: Re-Housing the Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) Carte-de-visite and Cabinet Portrait Album at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Master of Arts, 2012, Melodie Hueber, Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, Ryerson University. This thesis project explores a method of re-housing a carte-de-visite and cabinet card album, namely the Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) album, with a focus on preserving the album structure, the photographs and the narrative as well as facilitating the accessibility of the historical album within the Art Gallery of Ontario’s photographic collection. The first part of the paper assesses the historical components and the physical condition of the album, and analyzes four case studies of restored or re-housed 19th century albums within three institutions and one private collection. The second part of the paper summarizes the decision making process of three options for preservation, and outlines the digital documentation, the cataloguing process and the steps for the re-housing of the Peterkin album. v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my thesis advisors, Maia Sutnik and Katharine Whitman, for their invaluable advice and support in the development of this project. I would all also like to thank my second reader, Sophie Hackett. My gratitude goes to the Art Gallery of Ontario, for providing me with the opportunity to work on this project within their collection. I am indebted to Mary Williamson for sharing her insights and research of her family genealogy and history. Also, I am grateful for the assistance and support in research for my case studies from John McElhone, Shawn Boisvert and Christophe Vischi at the National Gallery of Canada, Joanne Guillemette and Lynn Curry at Library and Archives Canada, Joe R. Struble at the George Eastman House, and Taylor Whitney at the Preserving The Past, LLC. I would also want to thank Liana Radvak for her cataloguing expertise as well as Sean Weaver and Ian Lefebvre at the Photo Resources for producing the digitized documentation and the prints to complete the re-housing project. Finally, I wish to personally acknowledge my colleagues in the program for their guidance and inspiration, along with my family for their unconditional support. Melodie Hueber August, 2012 vii viii TABLE OF CONTENTS Author’s Declaration iii Abstract v Acknowledgements vii Table of Contents ix List of Illustrations xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Literature Survey 3 Historical Content of the Peterkin Album 9 Assessment of the Peterkin Album Condition 15 Case Studies of Methods of Preserving a Photographic Album 19 Methodology 19 Case Study 1: Restored Album 20 Case Study 2: Photographs Disassembled and Re-housed Individually 21 Case Study 3: Photographs Disassembled and Re-housed 22 in Modern Album Case Study 4: Photographs Disassembled and Re-housed in Facsimile 24 Archival Carte-de-visite and Cabinet Portrait Album The Preservation of the Peterkin Album 27 Alternative Re-housing Solutions: A. Card sleeves in a Binder 28 B. Re-housed in a New Album 28 C. Mat the Photographs 29 Documentation Process 30 Cataloguing the Individual Photographs 30 Re-housing of the Peterkin Photographs and Album 31 Conclusion 35 ix Appendices Appendix A – Illustrations 37 Appendix B – Condition Assessment of the Album 43 Appendix C – Cataloguing the Peterkin Album 45 Methodology 45 Cataloguing Records 48 Appendix D – Layout Mat Templates 57 Appendix C – Housing Materials 91 Bibliography 93 x LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page Fig 1 Various photographers, Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) album, 37 1860s-1890s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2009/180. Leather-bound embossed gold gilt cover. Fig 2 Various photographers, Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) album, 37 1860s-1890s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2009/180.2, AGO.2009/180.3. Example of the family narrative on album page 2 and 3. Fig 3 Photocopies of the Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) album, late 37 1990s. Page 24 before the album entered into the Art Gallery of Ontario’s photographic collection taken by Mary F. Williamson. Fig 4 Various photographers, Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) album, 37 1860s-1890s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2009/180.24. Altered sequence of photographs on page 24 in February, 2012, before they were returned to their previous placement based on Mary F. Williamson’s photocopies. Fig 5 Various photographers, Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) album, 38 1860s-1890s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2009/180. Detail of the red rot degradation on the leather cover. Fig 6 Various photographers, Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) album, 38 1860s-1890s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2009/180. View of the missing cover of the album’s spine. Fig 7 Various photographers, Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) album, 38 1860s-1890s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2009/180.10, AGO.2009/180.11. Detail of acid burn transfers on pages 10 and 11. Fig 8 Various photographers, Peterkin Family (Theresa Bywater Peterkin) album, 38 1860s-1890s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2009/180.30. Detail of ripped insert pocket on page 30. Fig 9 W. Williamson, Theresa Bywater (1845-1909), [mother of Theresa Bywater 38 Peterkin], 1875-1876, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2009/180.1. Example of torn corner on a cabinet card caused from mishandling in pulling the photograph out of its pocket. Fig 10 Giorgio Sommer, et al. Germany and Italy, c.1880, National Gallery of 39 Canada, PSC87:062:1-89. Detail of the restored leather spine cover, previously affected by leather red rot. Fig 11 Giorgio Sommer, et al. Germany and Italy, c.1880, National Gallery of 39 Canada, PSC87:062:1-89. Detail of the new Mylar wrapper. xi Fig 12 Giorgio Sommer, et al. Germany and Italy, c.1880, National Gallery of 39 Canada, PSC87:062:1-89. Detail of the new custom-made clamshell storage box Fig 13 Zangaki, Views of Egypt, c.1880s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2008/121. 39 View of page 24 and 25 before the albumen prints were re-housed. Fig 14 Zangaki, Views of Egypt, c.1880s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2008/121.1- 39 47. Detail of albumen prints re-housed with backing boards in Mylar sleeves and stored in a Hollinger box. Fig 15 Zangaki, Views of Egypt, c.1880s, Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO.2008/121. 39 The empty album shell stored in Hollinger box, with ethafoam spacers. Fig 16 Jacobs Album, 1860-1869, Lord Alexander Russell fonds, Library and 40 Archives Canada, R10454 1936-038. View of pages of the new archival post-binding album with mounted albumen prints. Fig 17 Jacobs Album, 1860-1869, Lord Alexander Russell fonds, Library and 40 Archives Canada, R10454 1936-038. View of the new post-binding album and the original album. Fig 18 William Topley Studio Index Albums, 1868-1926, Topley Studio fonds, 40 Library and Archives Canada, R639 1936-270. One of the albums in which photographs and pages were treated insitu. The binding was resewn and reattached into its original covers. Fig 19 William Topley Studio Index Albums, 1868-1926, Topley Studio fonds, 40 Library and Archives Canada, R639 1936-270. One of the albums in which photographs were removed from support pages which were treated for mould damage. The photographs were remounted on to the support pages, which were retained in an unbound state. Fig 20 Taylor Whitney’s mock-up archival four carte-de-visite layout page with a 40 facsimile carte-de-visite at Preserving The Past, LLC. The front page is made of a surrogated print from the scanned of the original 1870s album page that has been digitally restored using PhotoShop. Fig.21 Process of constructing the new front mats: Small oval 4/4 layout design 41 template of page 15, with the corresponding mat and the surrogated print of page 15 before assembling on top of the mat.
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