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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Moored in Burrard Inlet on a snowy Christmas day, the officers of HMS Acorn decided "the occasion a fitting one to obtain a photograph of the ship." | Anonymous (HMS Acorn photographer)
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STATUS: Amateur (visit). | Anonymous (HMS Acorn photographer)
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The newspaper noted that some sailors from the Russian gunboat Kreisser
"had a camera with them for this purpose [taking a photo]. Their request was complied with and they made an elegant photograph of the harbor as well as the ship." | Anonymous (Russian sailor[s])
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STATUS: Amateur (visit). | Anonymous (Russian sailor[s])
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Operated by Robert A. Spencer. | A 1 Passport Photo Co.
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STATUS: Commercial. | A 1 Passport Photo Co.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Operated by Maurice Lumley Hawksley. | A-1 Commercial Photo Service
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IDENTIFYING MARKS: print blind embossed with firm's name. | A-1 Commercial Photo Service
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STATUS: Commercial. | A-1 Commercial Photo Service
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Managed by A. Douglas and H. Douglas, who were described as "late of Glasgow, Scotland and Halifax, Eng.," the studio was upstairs at 615 Hastings opposite the Leland Hotel. The firm was out of business by September 1896 when a bailiff's sale was held that month to dispose of furniture and photographic equipment. | A. Douglas & Co.
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STATUS: Studio. | A. Douglas & Co.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Managed by Alfred Fraser. | A. Fraser & Co.
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STATUS: Commercial. | A. Fraser & Co.
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STATUS: Commercial. | A.C. Pillsbury Co.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Operated by A.C. Taylor. One of his photographers around 1920 was Henry Ernest Dudley. | A.C. Taylor & Co.
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IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface captioned, numbered and marked "A.C. Taylor & Co. Kamloops, B.C.". | A.C. Taylor & Co.
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STATUS: Commercial. | A.C. Taylor & Co.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Arriving in Canada in 1910, she gave her occupation as a photographer in the 1911 Canada census. The business directories, however, list her as a cashier for the Electric Theatre, 36 West Hastings. The 1911 census also recorded her as German-American and a Methodist. | Abbott Edith
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REFERENCES: HENVAN12 (cashier, Electric Theatre, Robert Unsworth, proprietor); HENVAN13 (n.l. for Edith Abbott or Electric Theatre). | Abbott Edith
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STATUS: Commercial (unverified). | Abbott Edith
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: He was honorary president of the Vancouver Camera Club around 1897. | Abbott Harry
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REFERENCES: See Vancouver Camera Club. | Abbott Harry
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STATUS: Unknown. | Abbott Harry
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked for Robert Hamilton Fort. | Abbott Kathleen
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STATUS: Commercial (assistant). | Abbott Kathleen
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STATUS: Commercial. | Abbott Roy Walton
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He also operated under the name Aber Studio Ltd. | Aber Sam J.
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REFERENCES: D.M. Stewart, 1996.12.15. | Aber Sam J.
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STATUS: Commercial. | Aber Sam J.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Incorporated by Sam J. Aber. | Aber Studio Ltd.
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REFERENCES: D.M. Stewart, 1996.12.15. | Aber Studio Ltd.
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STATUS: Studio. | Aber Studio Ltd.
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VARIANT NAME: Aber's Studio. | Aber Studio Ltd.
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STATUS: Amateur. | Aberdeen Ishbel Maria
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The wife of Governor-General John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen, she published an account of her travels titled Through Canada with a Kodak which included, obviously, "photographs taken by Lady Aberdeen's Kodak." She supplemented her own work with photographs purchased along the way and singled out for special mention the studios of Notman of Montreal and Boorne and May of Calgary. | Aberdeen Ishbel Maria
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Operated by Thomas Howard. | Academy of Portrait Art
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STATUS: Studio. | Academy of Portrait Art
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This was operated by a Japanese photographer. | Academy Studio
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REFERENCES: D.M. Stewart, 1996.12.15. | Academy Studio
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STATUS: Studio. | Academy Studio
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to Browne (1979), he filmed the departure of Canadian military troops from Vancouver for Siberia via Vladivostock, Russia, in January 1919. Accetti later moved to Manitoba, operated a studio in St. Boniface and later moved to Winnipeg. He apparently filmed freelance for both Fox Movietonews and Associated Screen News. He also filmed from aircraft and according Manitoba Biographies (Manitoba Historical Society; http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/accetti_a.shtml, viewed 2009.12.28) he weighed over 300 pounds. His probate file is dated 1956 and is preserved by the Archives of Manitoba. | Accetti Angelo
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REFERENCES: Winnipeg probate file, Accetti, Angelo, file no. 53227, book no. B56, folio no. 347, Archives of Manitoba, http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/probate/1953-1957/wpgA1953.pdf, viewed 2009.12.28; Manitoba Biographies, Manitoba Historical Society, http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/accetti_a.shtml, viewed 2009.12.28. | Accetti Angelo
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STATUS: Cinematographer. | Accetti Angelo
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: In 1924 he was a manager at Spencers, a department store. | Adami Frank
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REFERENCES: D.M. Stewart, 1996.12.15. | Adami Frank
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STATUS: Commercial. | Adami Frank
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The provincial government purchased 30 views of the Nanaimo River Bridge from him in 1874. Whether he was the photographer or merely the vendor is not yet determined. | Adams D.F.
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STATUS: Commerial?. | Adams D.F.
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IDENTIFYING MARKS: negatives titled and marked "Adams & Co." or "Adams & Larkin, Dawson Y.T.". | Adams Edward C.
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Listed as an artist at C.W. Bart's studio in Vancouver in 1896, he moved to Nanaimo and became a partner in Adams & Pierce. As Adams & Co. he and partner G.W. Larkin photographed the tent city of Bennett in the spring of 1898. Adams was later located in Washington state. | Adams Edward C.
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