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Various building and public works projects
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- Graphic material
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1913-1915 (Creation)
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[196-?]-[before 1998] (Creation)
- Creator
- Block, Morris
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- Block brought these records together to create this collection.
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110 photographs : sepia prints
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Morris Block was born in Winnipeg on December 24, 1929. He was educated in Winnipeg where he earned two undergraduate degrees at the University of Manitoba (Science and Engineering) and graduated at the top of his Civil Engineering class in 1955. In 1958, he started the engineering firm M. Block & Associates. His interests included the history of Winnipeg and Manitoba and he collected a wide variety of materials relating to these two themes.
Shortly after graduation, Morris Block married Clara. They had six children. Morris Block died in December of 1998.
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Scope and content
Photographs of work being done on various building and public works projects. This includes work at the Union Stock Yards, work on a City pipeline, work on a sewer in Tuxedo, work being done on a septic tank for the Ninette Sanatorium, and work being done on a sump pump in Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ontario. Also included are a small number of photographs of leisure activities in unknown rural locations. Photographs are all similar in style and may have been taken by a single, unidentified photographer.
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copyright: public domain