In 1933, when Karsh’s records start, Karsh lists around 250 sitters and 30 Dominion Drama Festival plays. Several of these first sittings are passport photos (Karsh photographed hundreds) and weddings (also hundreds). One of the first sitters (April 25, 1933) whose portraits have been digitized, is Lysle Courtenay. Courtenay was an actor, set dresser and set designer for the Ottawa Little Theater.