Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
A2025.000.005.012 |
Object Name |
Transparency, Slide |
Tagline |
Slide of a black and white photograph of the Agnew and Co building in the winter with Mount Roberts in the background, date unknown. Original photograph dates from the early-1900s. |
Collection |
MS 90 - Photograph & Negative Collection |
Description |
Slide of a black and white photograph of the Agnew and Co building in the winter with Mount Roberts in the background. The large, white, two-story building is in the foreground and has large windows spaced throughout the front and a large sign on the top of the building. There is a large pile of logs/timber in front of the building, next to one of the buildings in the Rossland rail yard that the Agnew building was at the end of. Buildings and an ore tramway from Centre Star Mine are up the hill from the building on the right side. Mount Roberts covered in snow towers in the background, completing the scene. The centre of the image has a green hue. |
Date |
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Medium |
127 Reversal Film |
Provenance |
From 1900 to 1936, Agnew & Co. was a successful grocer, dry goods, and mercantile store. Originally run by George Agnew himself, it was bought from him by his son-in-law, Oswald Bisson, in the early 1920s. The Agnew & Co. store closed officially in 1939, and part of the original structure was torn down. Charlie Daily soon bought the building from Bisson and ran a supply store through it. Daily closed his store sometime in the decades after and sold the store to the Adams brothers, who also ran a supply store until the 1960s. The building was later converted into apartments and at time of cataloguing the building houses the Rossland Inn with four, self-contained apartments. |
Search Terms |
Agnew & Co Mount Roberts Red Mountain Centre Star Mine |
Subjects |
Photography Landscape Street Scene Winter Snow Mountain Rail Yard Business Mining |