Saint John at Work and Play: Photographs by Isaac Erb, 1904-1924

Isaac Erb, a pioneer industrial photographer, plied his trade in Saint John in the first quarter of the twentieth century. He took thousands of photographs of stores, workers, factories and mills, ships and shipyards, construction sites, logging operations, and even booths at hte Saint John Exhibition. But no one works all the time: Erb also took pictures of Saint John at leisure - on a sleigh ride, at the theatre, celebrating Christmas, or riding in carriages and automobiles, on bicycles or on the "Chute the Chutes" at Rockwood Park. Erb was a decdicated commercial photographer whose keen eye turned his photographs into unique works of art..