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The holding of the City of Vaughan Archives is both rice and diverse, and include government and non-government records. All forms of media (i.e. audio, electronic, graphic, textual and visual) are represented in the collection as well as various subjects including architecture, commerce, sports, transportation, war and more. The size of each collection varies, from hundreds of boxes to only a handful of items. Each month, this page will feature a different archival collection, or fonds, which is housed at the Archives.
 
*A fonds is a group of documents that have been accumulated by an individual, company or institution over time.
WILLIAM J. FARRAND FONDS The William J. Farrand fonds is one of our premier collections and is composed of mostly graphic material dating from the mid 1800s. It includes examples of the three earliest photographic processes - daguerreotypes, tintypes, and ambrotypes – as well as cartes-de-viste and cabinet card formats. Most photographs are formal posed studio portraits depicting members of the Farrand and Snider families. Pictured above is an early tintype of the Farrand children (ca. 1860). Tintypes contained a thin iron base, featured a reverse image, and were more durable than the daguerreotype or ambrotype.
    


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