Love is in the Air

By Jenna Leifso, Archivist   Your training is done and you’re about to go back to the war in Europe or the Pacific but you have to leave behind your new wife or girlfriend in Canada. What do you give her to remember you by? A popular option for those in the...

It lives!

By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant On March 13, 2014, we launched digital.huroncounty.ca, the end product of the Henderson Digitization Project. The website displays over 850 newly digitized images taken by Goderich photographer J. Gordon Henderson and was...

Collection Connections

By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant In September, I posted a picture on the Museum’s Facebook page as an example of the WWII-era wedding photographs in the Henderson collection. What I didn’t know at the time is that the wedding dress in the picture was...

Moving pictures

By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant Working with a photographic collection from a studio photographer means we have access to many instances of two or more shots taken in short succession. In essence, there are hundreds of two-frame movies available to us if...