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- Source of title proper: Although the Museum was not renamed the Canada Aviation Museum (CAVM) until 1999, the Collection became known under its current name (CAVM Photograph Collection) beginning in 2006 when there was a mass digitization project and ‘CAVM’ was added to the file name of the digital copies.
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Reproduced 1960-2001 (originally created ca. 1908-1989) (Creation)
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ca. 40,000 photographs: negatives, 30,260 index cards, and 20.6 linear metres of graphic material
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The CAVM Photograph Collection was started by the National Aviation Museum soon after its inception in 1960. The collecting was continued as part of the National Aeronautical Collection (joint aviation collections of the National Aviation Museum, Canadian War Museum, and National Defence) and when the Museum was reopened again in 1988. The practice of making copy negatives and maintenance of the card catalogue had stopped by 2001.
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The CAVM Photograph Collection was gathered by the National Aviation Museum over time in order to preserve a visual record of aviation in Canada. The Museum used these photographs in exhibits, for historical reference, for reference in constructing models, and for restoration projects. Some original photographs (prints or negatives) were added to the Museum’s permanent collection, but selections were also made from photograph albums, scrapbooks, and prints, that were then copied and returned. Contributors may have been the original photographers, sharing or donating their own work, or aviation enthusiasts or historians that had copied photographs from other collections. Many small groups of photographs were donated by individuals and families with connections to aviation. The Museum created preservation copy negatives of the selected photographs, giving each copy negative a sequential number. The Collection is arranged in three series: CAVM-1 Negatives, CAVM-2 Prints, and CAVM-3 Card catalogue. The card catalogue was created to facilitate access to the Collection. Each card has information on the photograph with a small print glued to the card as a visual reference. The catalogue has five Photographic Print (PP) sub-series: PP01 General Aircraft by Manufacturer; PP02 National Aviation Museum Collection (historical photographs of Museum aircraft or conservation photographs taken by Museum staff); PP03 People, Organizations, Events, Gliders/Blimps, Airports/Air Fields; PP04 Hawker Siddeley Canada; and PP05 Miscellaneous (Museum displays, events, public relations, staff, site, models and engines).
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Approximately half of the CAVM Photograph Collection has been scanned, including the entire card catalogue.
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In 2019, archivists divided the CAVM Photograph Collection intellectually into two collections. Photographs from series PP05 and photographs from series PP02 showing conservation work were described separately as the CAVM Corporate Photograph Collection, distinguishing photographs taken by the Museum from the historical photographs gathered from other sources that comprise the rest of the CAVM Photograph Collection. However, the index cards and copy negatives remain together physically.
The Museum started to collect and produce colour slides in 1992. Copy negatives and catalogue cards were created for these colour slides as well, and so they are represented in the CAVM Photograph Collection. However, they have also been described as a separate Collection, the CAVM Slide Collection, because they have a distinct numbering system.
Hawker Siddeley Canada Limited donated photographs to the Museum in 1993. These are described as the Hawker Siddeley Canada Limited Fonds. Most likely due to their popularity, a selection of these photographs was added to the CAVM Photograph Collection (negatives and catalogue cards). In the card catalogue, they are subseries PP04.
Photographs from the Ken Molson Fonds and the Frank Ellis Collection were also incorporated into the CAVM Photograph Collection.
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Written by A. Torrance and S. Jones, 01-2023. French translation by Céline Mongeau, Larocque Linguistic Services, 03-2023.