Saint John at Work and Play
Photographs by Isaac Erb, 1904-1924
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1998
- Category
- General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864922564
- Publish Date
- Oct 1998
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Isaac Erb, a pioneer industrial photographer, plied his trade in Saint John in the first quarter of the twentieth century. He took thousands of photographs of stores, workers, factories and mills, ships and shipyards, construction sites, logging operations, and even booths at hte Saint John Exhibition. But no one works all the time: Erb also took pictures of Saint John at leisure — on a sleigh ride, at the theatre, celebrating Christmas, or riding in carriages and automobiles, on bicycles or on the "Chute the Chutes" at Rockwood Park. Erb was a decdicated commercial photographer whose keen eye turned his photographs into unique works of art..
About the authors
Grant Kelly, a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, owns and operates Vintage Photo and Frame in Saint John. An expert on early commercial photography, he has modern negatives made from all of Erb’s extant glass negatives, which are held by the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
Sue McCluskey has worked with the Erb materials since 1994, and her byline is familiar to readers of the Saint John Times-Globe and The New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal.
Isaac Erb, a pioneer industrial photographer, plied his trade in Saint John in the first quarter of the twentieth century. He took thousands of photographs of stores, workers, factories, and mills, ships and shipyards, construction sites, logging operations, and even booths at hte Saint John Exhibition. But no one works all the time: Erb also took pictures of Saint John at leisure — on a sleigh ride, at the theatre, celebrating Christmas, or riding in carriages and automobiles, on bicycles or on the “Chute the Chutes” at Rockwood Park. Erb was a decdicated commercial photographer whose keen eye turned his photographs into unique works of art.