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Title proper
T. Eaton Company promotional stereograms
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- Graphic material
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Statement of scale (cartographic)
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[ca. 1920] (Creation)
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[196-?]-[before 1998] (Creation)
- Creator
- Block, Morris
- Note
- Block brought these records together to create this collection.
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Physical description
50 photographs : b&w stereograms
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Biographical history
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
A collection of promotional stereograms produced by the T. Eaton Company, showing various scenes and operations at its store and factories in Winnipeg. This includes images of Eaton’s main department store on Portage Avenue, both inside and outside, the company’s factories throughout the City and work being done in them, as well as street scenes of Winnipeg. The stereograms are numbered from one to fifty and have descriptive text on their reverse.
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copyright: public domain