Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1953-1995 (Creation)
Extent
2881 photographs : b&w
2183 photographs : b&w negatives
54 photographs : col. slides
224 photographs : col. negatives
23 photographs : col. transparencies
205 photographs : col.
2 postcards
Name of creator
Administrative history
Personal Studio was founded by Robert T.G. Nicol and a friend, and officially opened for business on March 21, 1946. Nicol was the sole photographer and owner by the fall of 1946. For the next fifty years Robert Nicol documented the Waterloo Region through personal and commercial photography. He pioneered the concept of wedding albums in the local area. He had started flying in 1961 and from that time on took aerial photographs as well as studio and candid photography. In the course of his career he maintained memberships in professional photographers' organizations as well as completing continuing photographic educational courses offered by those organizations. He retired as a professional photographer in 1996.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The fonds consists of photographs and negatives depicting scenes of Waterloo College (later named Waterloo Lutheran University and Wilfrid Laurier University) and portraits of faculty, staff, and students.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
Open
Physical access
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Languages of the material
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Fonds was acquired from Robert Nicol in 2003.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Related material can be found in the Wilfrid Laurier University photograph collection.
See also the Personal Studio fonds held by the University of Waterloo.
Related descriptions
Notes element
General note
Title taken from contents of the fonds.