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next to his wife, Ruth. The photography business was willed to Micklethwaite's eldest son Fred. Fred Micklethwaite continued the family business until 1941, passing it on to his son, John Harold Micklethwaite, the fourth generation of Micklethwaite in the photography business. John was a commercial
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from approximately 1891 to 1895 to take photographs of public works and their construction. As such, Micklethwaite is credited with many early images of public infrastructure in Toronto.
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Aperçu: The Archives looks at Frank W. Micklethwaite - A Portrait of Toronto / Aperçu: Photographies d'archives de Frank W. Micklethwaite - Images de Toronto.
185:. The younger Micklethwaite studied photography while in Ireland, and emigrated to Toronto around 1875. After working for three years as a proof reader for 177:, Lancashire, England, on 13 March 1849. His family mpved to Ireland in the 1850s, where his father, William Barton Micklethwaite, practiced photography in 165: 502: 418: 326: 288: 487: 274: 386: 512: 217: 150: 84: 497: 225: 492: 53: 374: 360: 507: 205: 378: 438: 229: 204:
In addition to his private clients, Micklethwaite was also commissioned by the Engineer's Department of the
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in 1878. He later opened a studio, the location of which changed frequently until he established it at 243
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each summertime, and he took thousands of photographs of the Muskoka lakes area and wealthy cottagers.
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The Archivist. March–April 1986, Volume 13, No. 2, p. 9. (Public Archives of Canada, 1986).
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National Photography Collection / Collection nationale de photographies. 1978.
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area form an important and unique photographic record of the province of
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Picturing Toronto: Photography and the Making of a Modern City
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newspaper, he opened a commercial photography business at 22
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Micklethwaite died on 5 December 1925, and he was buried in
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Photograph of Yonge Street by F.W. Micklethwaite, circa 1885
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Many of F.W. Micklethwaite's photographs are held by the
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MacKinnon, Steve; Teeple, Karen; Dale, Michele (2010).
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photographer in Toronto until his own death in 1983.
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Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
Toronto, Ontario
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
Photographer
photographer
Toronto
Muskoka
Ontario

Ashton-under-Lyne
Newry
County Down
The Mail
Queen Street West
Yonge Street
Port Sandfield
City of Toronto government
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Library and Archives of Canada
City of Toronto Archives



City of Toronto Archives biography
Filey, Mike
From Horse Power to Horsepower: Toronto: 1890–1930
Dundurn Press
ISBN
978-1-55488-173-4

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