Woodruff family photographs and portraits, n.d.

Abstract

The collection consists of a photo album, 5 glass photos, and 4 paintings. The photo album contains 50 photographs. Most of the photos are portraits. There is a loose photo of a group of boys and men standing in front of a house in the front of the album. Some of the portraits are labelled with loose notes tucked in with the photos and include Great Aunt Helen; Will Boomer (Great Aunt Helen’s son); C.H. French[?]; Kate Gordon; Great Grandmother French and Uncle Ben Canby; and a cottage on great grandmother’s place in St. Catharines. Glass photographs, n.d. Contains five glass photographs of Julia Cleveland, Marie Gurner[?], and S.D. Woodruff. The four paintings are framed portraits of Margaret C. Woodruff (1794-1882); William Woodruff (1793-1860); Margaret Shaw (1834-1916); and Thomas Shaw (1817-1884). Margaret and William Woodruff were great-grandparents of Margaret Julia Woodruff. Margaret and Thomas Shaw were the grandparents of Percy Carruthers Band. Two of the paintings are stored in the Archives room and two are located in drawers in an oversize black cabinet.