Fonds MC-31 - Anderson Family

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Anderson Family

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Fonds

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MC-31

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The fonds is in good condition except for the bill of fare which is in poor condition in three separate fragments, and the painting of Captain Thomas Reese Anderson has some severe cracking and is in need of conservation.
2 photographs: b&w; 43 x 58 cm and 24.5 x 30 cm.
2 paintings: 1 oil on canvas; 46 x 61 cm and 1 watercolour on silk; 51 x 84 cm.

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Name of creator

(1840-1918)

Biographical history

Custodial history

This fonds was donated to the Tantramar Heritage Trust by George Titus Anderson and Sandra Anderson. They made their first donation on April, 8, 2012; followed by an accrual on November 15, 2012; and a second accrual October 2019. George Titus Anderson is the grandson of Captain Thomas Reese Anderson and Bessie M. (Bickerton) Anderson.

Scope and content

Fonds relates to the Anderson family all of whom were originally from Sackville, New Brunswick and their activities and lives, specifically of Jane Oulton (Bulmer) Anderson, Capt. Thomas Reese Anderson, Bessie M. (Bickerton) Anderson, George Marshall Anderson in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and Jesse Edwin Anderson in Ketchikan, Alaska and Seattle, Washington. Fonds consists of Jane Oulton (Bulmer) Anderson’s framed watercolour portrait on silk; Captain Thomas Reese Anderson’s bill of fare for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, a framed oil painting of him, and his Canada Registration Board Certificate of 1918; a photograph of Bessie M. (Bickerton) Anderson; the wedding party photograph of George Marshall Anderson and Gertrude Minnie (Stace) Anderson; and a wedding announcement for Jesse Edwin Anderson and Cynthia C. (Atkinson) Anderson.

Physical condition

The fonds is in good condition except for the bill of fare which is in poor condition in three separate fragments, and the painting of Captain Thomas Reese Anderson has some severe cracking and is in need of conservation.

Immediate source of acquisition

Anderson, George and Sandra

Arrangement

Fonds was arranged and described by JC Bennett in 2021

Language of material

  • English

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Restrictions on access

None

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Finding aids

AOH Anderson Room, 13/4, BHC Upstairs: 2012.12.1, 13/5, BHC Upstairs: 2012.12.2, 13/5, 13/3.

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Further accruals are possible.

General note

Title based on the provenance of records.

General note

Dates: [1870-1900?], [1918-1938?], 1909, 1918, 1921.

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MC-31

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THT

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Status

Final

Level of detail

Full

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

2021/08/25

Language of description

  • English

Script of description

Sources

Ancestry.ca
The White Fence Newsletter

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