SW-PP2014.2.13

Two patients of the Hospital sitting on the same edge of a bed. Both patients are looking at opposite sides of the camera, out of the field of image. The man on the left has a blank look on his face, and the man on the right is smiling. Both are dressed in pyjamas and plaid patterned housecoats. Each is holding a soapstone carving in their hands. Three more beds are visible, though out of focus, in the background with unidentified medical equipment. Two windows are visible.

Willie is on the left and Thomas Suwark is on the right. From original archive: In February 1962, Don Reynolds, a staff photographer from the Saint Joseph Museums in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA visited The Pas, Manitoba with the then Director, Roy Coy, on a flora specimen gathering trip. Mr. Reynolds took a series of wonderful journalistic quality black and white photos and created a photobook of his visit, a photobook that the Sam Waller Museum now has in its collection. Images cover the Trappers' Festival, Dog Derby and TB patients at the Clearwater Lake Hospital. What is of particular note with regards to these photographs is that all of the Clearwater Lake Hospital patients are identified by name, home location and various other unique bits of information. The images remained with the photographer and the Museum until his death. Following his death the images were deemed to be unrelated to the Saint Joseph Museums mandate. It was at this point that the Sam Waller Museum was contacted and the photographs accepted in the Museum's permanent collection.

February, 1962

Willie, Thomas Suwark

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