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Mrs. James Nixon of Twin Islands posing with her husband's rifle and a dead buck

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Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1913]
Scope and Content
Mrs. Margaret Nixon posing with her husband's rifle and a dead buck. "This is a pose only. Her husband shot the deer. They lived alone on Twin Islands and picture taking was a pleasant pastime. She was two years older than her husband's mother. They were very happy and a very fine couple. She was an English-trained nurse for missionary work. Married a missionary doctor. They went to India where the doctor died of fever so she left. Eventually came to Canada where she met and married Capt. James Nixon. Note the scar on her left cheek. While in India an insect went up her nose. It burrowed into the bone and the doctors were never able to effect a cure- it eventually reached the area of the brain. She had to undergo an operation and did not survive the operation. Her husband was desolated." (May Ellingsen).
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.002
Series Number
2
Item Number
2004.002.044
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
[ca. 1913]
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 10.5 cm
Scope and Content
Mrs. Margaret Nixon posing with her husband's rifle and a dead buck. "This is a pose only. Her husband shot the deer. They lived alone on Twin Islands and picture taking was a pleasant pastime. She was two years older than her husband's mother. They were very happy and a very fine couple. She was an English-trained nurse for missionary work. Married a missionary doctor. They went to India where the doctor died of fever so she left. Eventually came to Canada where she met and married Capt. James Nixon. Note the scar on her left cheek. While in India an insect went up her nose. It burrowed into the bone and the doctors were never able to effect a cure- it eventually reached the area of the brain. She had to undergo an operation and did not survive the operation. Her husband was desolated." (May Ellingsen).
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Subject Access
Hunting
Geographic Access
Twin Islands
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May Freeman, "Aunt Agnes", and Wilfred Freeman feeding turkeys, Hernando Island

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Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1933
Scope and Content
This photograph was taken at Stag Bay near the Dick Parker logging camp buildings. The Mansons had raised some Bronze turkeys but had found it commercially unprofitable. These were some of the breeding birds. The gobbler, on the right, weighed 42 pounds. Here, May Freeman, L, Aunt Agnes (Jean Manson's aunt), and Wilfred Manson Jr. are feeding them. There is one White Holland turkey amongst them.
Part Of
May Ellingsen fonds
Description Level
Item
Fonds Number
2004.002
Series Number
1
File Number
10
Item Number
2004.003.053
Material Type
graphic material
Date Range
1933
Physical Description
1 photograph print: b&w; 8.5 x 12 cm
Scope and Content
This photograph was taken at Stag Bay near the Dick Parker logging camp buildings. The Mansons had raised some Bronze turkeys but had found it commercially unprofitable. These were some of the breeding birds. The gobbler, on the right, weighed 42 pounds. Here, May Freeman, L, Aunt Agnes (Jean Manson's aunt), and Wilfred Manson Jr. are feeding them. There is one White Holland turkey amongst them.
Storage Location
Photograph box 3
Subject Access
Logging
Geographic Access
Hernando Island
Location - Copy
Vol. 9, p. 27b
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