• Unknown (photographer)

View of Place Royale, Quebec City toward Notre-Dame-des-Victoires church and showing buildings along the side of the plaza

1889

Photograph shows the facade of the Notre-Dame-des-Victoires church in Quebec City and buildings on the east side of the Plaza Royale. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in the square at the left and right of the image. Three signs, possibly shop signs, are visible in the far right foreround. Two are rectangular and read "HARDES" and "L. GOSSELIN & Co." respectively and the third is shaped like a lace-up boot and reads "ALFRED BOIVIN".

Collodion-chloride print

page: 17.3 × 24.7 cm (6 13/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

PH1980:0817:019

inscribed, by an unknown hand, on secondary support in black ink, lower left: ""1690 Défoilé De l'Amerral Philipps L'Église prend le titre de N.D. de la Victoire 1688 1e mai Parc de la 1ere"" and lower centre: Notre Dame de la Victoire.'" " and lower right: ""Pierre par la Marquise de Denomville gouverneur Innocent XI Pope Louis XIV Roi de France L'Église est dedieé à l'enfant Jesus"

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