SW-PP2014.2.19

A man smiling and looking down towards the floor. He is sitting on a hospital bed holding a carved walrus. The walrus is a dark colour with white tusks and about the size of an adult fist. The man is dressed in pyjamas with a plaid patterned housecoat. The head of the bed is visible behind him and is up against a wall.

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

Thomas Suwark

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SW-PP2014.2.11, SW-PP2014.2.12, SW-PP2014.2.13