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Hubert Hollingworth Glass Slide Collection

The glass slides in the Hubert Hollingworth Fonds were created by many people and consist of various subjects including missionary work in Northern British Columbia and Alberta, China, Afghanistan, Africa, and India; Pre-World War II England; World War II; archaeology; and anatomy.

About Hollingworth's Glass Slides

Religious Slides

The majority of the slides belonged to missionary Mr. Charles O. Bowen, a Welsh immigrant. Mr. Bowen's religious slides consist of nature photographs, often mountain scenes, which have a biblical scripture and/or hymn transposed onto them.

Medical Slides

Some of these slides can be attributed to professors at the University of Alberta:

Dr. Evan Greene (1873-1966), was one of Alberta's earliest doctors. He was a surgeon and an anatomist. The subject of his slides is anatomy.

Dr. Ralph Faust Shaner (1893-1976) was an anatomist, professor, and head of the U of A's Department of Anatomy. His slides represent many of the courses that he taught such as histology, embryology, and neuroanatomy.

Dr. Maxwell Mordecai Cantor (1903-1981) was the provincial coroner and biochemist at the University of Alberta. The slides digitized from Dr. Cantor are of the pathology of disease.

Hubert A. Hollingworth Biography

Hubert Hollingworth was one of Edmonton's most outstanding photographers and was a founding member of the Edmonton Camera Club. By the age of twenty, Mr. Hollingworth was a seasoned photographer having won several awards for his photographs.

View the Hollingworth Glass Slides Collection Online

Following Hubert Hollingworth's death in January 1988, his family donated 97 boxes of glass negatives to the City of Edmonton Archives. This project has been possible by financial assistance from Archives Society of Alberta.

Hollingworth glass slide collection - more than 800 available

Hubert Hollingworth Fonds

The Hubert Hollingworth fonds consists of materials collected or created by Hubert A. Hollingworth between 1914 and 1974. Mr. Hollingworth donated some textual items such as souvenir programs, a post card album, and high school newsletters, but the main focus of his fonds is photographic.

Photographs

There are approximately 3,000 of Mr. Hollingworth's photographs which depict life in Edmonton during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. In 2002, the majority of the photos were digitized and are available at City of Edmonton Archives Photos.

Glass Slides

A major portion of the Hubert Hollingworth Fonds is the Hubert Hollingworth Glass Slide Collection. Funding was secured for this digitization project in 2004.

This project has been made possible by financial assistance from Archives Society of Alberta.