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[ca. 1895]-[ca. 1910] (Creation)
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1,878 photographs : glass plate negatives
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The Bartle Brothers, Simon Peter Bartle (1875-1956) and Herman Arthur Bartle (1877-1958) were professional travelling photographers in Glengarry and Stormont Counties during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
They were the sons of Dr. Charles Bartle, a physician, and his wife, Charlotte (Shaver), of Dixon, Osnabruck, Stormont County.
Simon attended public school in Morrisburg, where he obtained an art teaching certificate. While in Morrisburg, he appears to have also studied photography. Returning to Dixon after completing his formal education, he embarked upon a career as a photographer. In this enterprise, he was assisted by his younger brother, Herman.
The Bartle Brothers travelled throughout Glengarry and Stormont Counties, photographing area residents and a variety of local subjects. Their careers as travelling photographers ended ca. 1914 when the Bartles purchased Osnabruck Township property together and went into mixed farming.
In 1917, Herman married Lillian Taylor.
Custodial history
The glass plate negatives in this fonds were recovered from the Bartle farm in Osnabruck and acquired by the Archives of Ontario in 1974 from John Brownwell.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of 1,878 glass plate negatives taken ca. 1895 to ca. 1910 by Simon Peter Bartle and his brother, Herman Arthur Bartle, known professionally as Bartle Brothers.
Photographic subject are predominantly groups and individual residents of various Glengarry and Stormont County communities including: Fassifern, Grantley, Lancaster, Martintown, North Lancaster, St. Andrews, and Williamstown. In addition, general subjects including area business enterprises, dwellings, churches, vehicles, and recreation.
Fonds is arranged into 20 series: portraits (series 1); clothing and dress ( series 2); banks (series 3); business enterprises (series 4); canals (series 5); canoes and canoeing (series 6); churches (series 7); country life (series 8); death (series 9); dwellings (series 10); farming (series 11); farms (series 12); gardens (series 13); hunting (series 14); pets (series 15); railroads (series 16); recreation (series 17); sports (series 18); streets (series 19); and vehicles (series 20).
For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+C+2?SESSIONSEARCH
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Some of the photographs from this fonds are available in digital format in the Archives of Ontario Visual Database. Search using reference code C 2.
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No restrictions on access.
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Records are in the public domain. Permission of the Archives of Ontario is required for publication.
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For a more detailed description, use this link to the Archives of Ontario's descriptive database: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+C+2?SESSIONSEARCH
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Title based on contents of the fonds. The biographical information was obtained from Herman Bartles' daughters, Minnie R. Bartle and Rhoda Bartle.