Cards in the open

• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1930
• Subjects: Milley; Samuel F.; 1867-1939; Foote; Samuel J.; 1873-1936; Williamson; T.; Playing Cards; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/m_fomowa/id/551

1 photograph : sepia toned 8 x 13.5 cm T. Williamson, Samuel F. Milley, Samuel J. Foote and an unidentified man play cards on the front porch of the Fomowa Clubhouse. Title from album caption. Samuel F. Milley (1867-1939) was born in St. John's in 1867. Milley was a prominent dry goods merchant in St. John's from 1890's and was a member of the Legisaltive Council for more than 30 years. Milley died in Montreal on February 12, 1939. Samuel J. Foote (1873-1936) was born in Grand Bank in 1873. Foote was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1899 and went to practice with Sir James Winter. Foote entered into politics in 1904. Foote died on December 8, 1936. Good An album containing 323 black and white photographs and 25 pages of text, covering the years 1914 to 1937 of the FOMOWA Fishing Club on the Grand Codroy River on the west coast of Newfoundland. The album's images have been digitized as separate items.