Identity area
Reference code
CA MHC 526-01-7.0
Title
Interior portrait against photo backdrop.
Date(s)
- [192-?] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 17.7 x 12.2 cm
Context area
Name of creator
(1883-1965)
Biographical history
Peter Gerhard Hamm was born in the village of Neubergthal on the Mennonite West Reserve in Manitoba. Hamm was a teacher, farmer, and photographer. Most of the photos taken by Hamm date 1900-1930, but a few into ca. 1950.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Four young women, two dressed as (dressed up in costume) men. Also showing in room is doors, wooden floor and fancy wallpaper lining wall below wainscoting border. "Men" have large fake mustaches, glasses, large Dutch hats, dark suits, with white ribbons pinned on. Women have what appears to be small corsages, dark head coverings.
NOTE: This picture has previously been described as two young couples.