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Austin Sawdon fonds
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66 negatives
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Austin Sawdon was born in Three Hills, Alberta to Doctor (Dr.) Thomas Sawdon (1881-1947) and Laura Lee Robertson. Dr. Sawdon established a drugstore in Three Hills in 1910 and Austin Sawdon later became a pharmacist and took over his father's store.
Custodial history
Mrs. Pauline Jasman of the Three Hills and District Museum deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1975. Mrs. Jasman's relationship with Austin Sawdon is unknown.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of copied photographs dating circa (ca.) 1910-1967 that depict the Sawdon family and residents of Three Hills, Alberta, and various other images of Three Hills including Sawdon Drug Store and other businesses in Three Hills, railroad stations and construction, churches, building interiors, fires, carriages and carts, barns, Sarcee Camp, soldiers, automobiles, grain elevators, picnics, houses, women, ferries, bands, fairs, children, and street and aerial views of Three Hills, Alberta.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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Associated materials
Other records deposited by the Three Hills and District Museum can be found in PR1276 Three Hills and District Museum collection.
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Further accruals are not expected.
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Deposited at the same time in the same accession are the following discrete items: A biographical sketch of Dr. Thomas Sawdon by Sam J. Robertson; a historical sketch of Three Hills, Alberta by Laura Lee Sawdon. Included in accession PR1975.0566 are records belonging to the following unrelated fonds: PR1276 Three Hills and District Museum collection;Reference prints of photographs from this collection can be found in A File under location numbers A.4305-A.4353.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1975.0566<br><br>
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- Sawdon, Austin (Subject)