Photograph album created by brothers Arthur and Fred Landen of Hull, England. Consists of circa 150 photographs of Arthur Landen’s time as Honourable Lieutenant and Quartermaster in the 1st Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers while stationed in Spain, Gibraltar, Egypt, and elsewhere in Africa between 1887 and 1907, as well as circa 40 photographs of Fred Landen’s stay in Winnipeg between 1903 and 1906 and his home in Hull, England. Winnipeg photographs feature homes, commercial buildings, and modes of transporation. The pages are loose and many of the photographs are faded.
Page 28 of a photograph album created by brothers Arthur and Fred Landen of Hull, England. Page consists of 6 photographs taken by Fred Landen depicting, clockwise from top-left: bricklayers in front of houses; women on a horse-drawn sleigh (captioned “Cutter”); police in raccoon-skin uniforms; a streetcar crossing the Osborne Bridge; a Ox-drawn sleigh in front of the Royal Oak Hotel in Market Square (Market Avenue and King Street); and a woman pushing a baby in a sleigh in at the northwest corner of Broadway and Kennedy Street.
Page 30 of a photograph album created by brothers Arthur and Fred Landen of Hull, England. Page consists of 6 photographs taken by Fred Landen depicting, clockwise from top-left: A horse-drawn “speeder” sleigh in front of the Nares Building on Main Street and Lombard Avenue; a horse-drawn toboggan in front of the old post office on Main Street and McDermot Avenue; a workman’s house; children standing in winter clothes in a residential neighbourhood; Fred Landen sitting in wooded area, “The Grove” in “Kildonia” [Kildonan] - likely Fraser's Grove in East Kildonan; and a horse and buggy in a residential neighbourhood.
Photograph shows cars and drivers at Clarendon Hotel, northwest corner of Donald Street and Portage Avenue. - Inscription (on verso): 1st car, R. M. McLeod and R. Newman 2nd car, W. C. Power at wheel. 3rd car, Kelly Bros. 4th car, Douglas M. McLaughlin and Bert Wells (standing between cars is Ace Emmett). 5th car, Jack McCullock and Jimmy Boswell. - Date of photograph is approximate, ca. 1904.