CDV of young lady taken at the Livernois Studio, Quebec City c1890
Toronto. Well, in the late 1800s/early 1900s in Quebec City that likely meant you had an urge to have a likeness taken at the Livernois Studio. Many of the photographs taken by the Livernois family can be found at the “centre d’archives de Quebec” in the “fonds J E Livernois Ltee”.
Click the archive link above to practice your French and to browse the astonishing number of images. The Livernois studio alone has some 109,000 negatives (on glass, nitrate and acetate), and prints!
The likeness of the young lady in the CDV portrait at left was captured in the late 1800s when J E Livernois ran the family business. Click on the above studio link to read the family history and see some example photos from the fonds. The samples include the Livernois studio c1900 (also online in the fonds). The family opened a pharmacy on the ground floor of the studio building …
