{"id":15022,"date":"2019-07-09T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T10:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15022"},"modified":"2019-07-08T18:53:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T22:53:50","slug":"lookin-for-llewellyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/lookin-for-llewellyn\/","title":{"rendered":"lookin&#8217; for Llewellyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15023\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/retouching-desk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15023\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15023\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/retouching-desk-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1913 ad for retouching desk<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. On June 17th, Kay McGinnis wrote me searching for information on Llewellyn Abbott, or more precisely our articles on his photo studio employers in the big smoke. I sent Kay copies as asked and sent her request on to our editor, Bob Lansdale, who is keen on the history of Canadian photographers\u00a0and studios.<\/p>\n<p>Kay later received a pdf copy of our journal with Ev Roseborough&#8217;s article on retouching. As Kay explained, Abbott was listed in Might&#8217;s city directory as both a photographer and a retoucher. Abbott spent a decade as a retoucher for Chas Aylett who was well known for his quality portraits of famous people.<\/p>\n<p>She posted the story of Llewellyn Abbot on her blog &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mcrobertsavenue.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/06\/25-mcroberts-avenue\/\">McRoberts Avenue<\/a>&#8221; as 25 McRoberts Avenue. Kay wrote a well researched article on Abbott from his early days in Meaford Ontario as a photographer through his various positions here in Toronto before, during, and after the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>She would welcome any additional details and photos of Llewellyn Abbott. Drop me a <a href=\"mailto:info@phsc.ca\">note<\/a> or contact Kay via her blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. On June 17th, Kay McGinnis wrote me searching for information on Llewellyn Abbott, or more precisely our articles on his photo studio employers in the big smoke. I sent Kay copies as asked and sent her request on to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/lookin-for-llewellyn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2672,2671,5],"class_list":["post-15022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-abbott","tag-meaford","tag-photographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15026,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions\/15026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}