Item 1 - Michael Dudowich Scrapbook

22 photographs : b&w & col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
0.045 m of textual records

Item consists of one scrapbook of photographer Michael Dudowich, from early childhood to his retirement from the Sudbury Star in 1976 and a christmas card from 1992 included in the back. The scrapbook contains telegrams (including one sent via CP [Canadian Pacific Railway Telegram] from Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto to his mother, dated June 14, 1934, which stated "Michael having plaster applied to hips at nine o'clock" and another telegram sent via CN [Canadian National Railway Telegram] from Hospitals Trust in Ireland to M. Dudowick, dated October 26, 1956, which stated he won one hundred pounds sterling from the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake.), newspaper clippings (regarding awards won, courses took and taught, stories worked on including an article written by Betty Meakes, and two obituaries for an A.F. Francis who died in 1986 and an obituary for a Rita Chatherine Stortz who died in 1988), Commercial & Press Photographers' Association of Canada Membership cards, letters and invitations from government officials (including correspondence from Government House, the Darjeeling Mission Service, Nellie Lowe, Thompson Newspapers, John D. Welsh of the Canadian Industries Limited, and J.B. Woodson Jr. of Du Pont), photographs (mostly of Michael Dodowich but one autographed image of Mike Pearson dated October 27, 1948 is also included along with four images of [Betty Meakes]), identification cards, a typed, annotated carbon copy Sudbury Star memo dated May 14th, 1976 announcing the upcoming retirement of Michael Dudowich and Rigo Peloso (Alex Salemink's decision to go out west along with the promotions of Bill Sillanpaa, Brian Gannon, Len Parker, John Young, Jim Duncan, and Murray MacQueen are also mentioned), five postcards to Diane Scagnetti of Garson from Michael Dudowich between 1947 and 1952 (postcards were from Daytona Beach, Florida, Windsor, Ontario, Louisville, Kentucky, Toronto, Ontario, and Miami, Florida) and a 1992 Christmas card from Diane Scagnetti Dellelce stating that she included old postcards sent by Dudowich to her forty and forty-five years prior as a late 65th birthday present.