St. Thomas-Elgin Camera Club fonds
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives9879
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas-Elgin Camera Club fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- objects
- Date Range
- 1954-2005
- Accession Number
- 2005-19
- Storage Location
- C6 Sh2 B1-4
- C6 Sh3 B1-2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2005-19
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C6 Sh2 B1-4
- C6 Sh3 B1-2
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- objects
- Date Range
- 1954-2005
- Physical Description
- 88.5 cm of textual records
- 564 photographs : slides
- 50 photographs : b&w and col.
- 24 ribbons
- 2 signs
- 1 decal
- 1 spoon
- 1 stamp
- History / Biographical
- The St. Thomas-Elgin Camera Club was formed on November 22, 1954 with twelve members. The club was organized by Reverend A.H. Johnson, Minister of Grace United Church, St. Thomas, and originally met at Grace United Church and functioned as a club for church parishioners. The club’s charter administrators and general members included Rev. Johnston, President; Mr. Lewis Heard, Vice President; Mrs. B. Bissett, Secretary; Mr. G. Harris, Treasurer; and general members Densmore Hanes, Norma Kennedy, Mel Kennedy, Herb Goldsmith, Edna Wightman, Gery Gordon, Mrs. J. Magnusson, Mr. Hellyer and Mr. McDougall. The club soon attracted members other than Grace Church parishioners and began meeting in a succession of other venues in St. Thomas. The club’s purpose was to promote interest in photography. Members met to share their knowledge and experience and to receive guidance and photographic education. The club participated in various events, such as yearly field trips, rally and salon competitions and lectures by guest speakers. In 1956 The St. Thomas-Elgin Camera Club became a member of the Western Ontario Federation of Camera Clubs (established in March 1955), joining member clubs from London, Windsor, Chatham and Sarnia (with two chapters). Subsequently, clubs from Ingersoll, Ridgetown, Brantford, Milverton, Simcoe, Stratford and Wallaceburg joined the Federation. The Federation’s constitution ensured that no one club would dominate by stipulating that each member club supply an executive for one year on a rotating basis. Federation events were organized and its records created and maintained by the executive of the given year. The Federation sponsored many inter-club activities including an annual photographic salon/exhibition, rally days, seminars and slide exchanges. The Western Ontario Federation of Camera Clubs disbanded in 2001. The St. Thomas-Elgin Camera Club supplied the Federation’s executive during its final year and consequently assumed custody of the Federation’s records. The St. Thomas-Elgin Camera Club ceased operation in June 2005 in its 50th anniversary year.
- Custodial History
- The records comprising the fonds were donated to the Elgin County Archives in September 2005 by former St. Thomas-Elgin Camera Club member Ann E. Beckett, who had held the records since the club ceased operating in June 2005.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records created and maintained by the St. Thomas-Elgin Camera Club, including photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, financial and insurance records, membership lists, slide exchange program records, club objectives and programs, as well as miscellaneous club-related records. Fonds also includes records of the Western Ontario Federation of Camera Clubs, created in part by the St. Thomas-Elgin Camera Club in the course of acting as periodic Federation administrators and maintained by the Club as permanent record custodians following the Federation’s disbandment. Fonds is arranged into the following series: 1. Minutes 2. Events 3. Slide Exchanges 4. Financial Records 5. Membership 6. Photographs 7. Administrative Records 8. Newspaper Clippings 9. Correspondence 10. Miscellaneous 11. Scrapbooks 12. Western Ontario Federation of Camera Clubs Records
- Subject Access
- Photography
- Accruals
- No further accruals are expected.
- Access Restriction
- None
- Arrangement
- Where possible, original order was maintained. Records that were not in order were interfiled with ordered records or were placed in newly-created series.
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