Edwards Brothers^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]}

• Name	Edwards Brothers
  Gender	Unknown
  Business Address/Year	1891-Mar 1893	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 622 Cordova St. Pioneer Art Gallery Vancouver, BC Canada
  	While a newspaper notice gave the address as 522 Cordova St., this was a misprint for 622 Cordova St. The Pioneer Art Gallery was owned by Theodore R. Hardiman who had expanded his premises in Jul 1891 so the actual address by Nov 1891 was 622-626 Cordova St. [7]
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1897-1898	Stikine River Trail, BC
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1897-1898	Chilkoot Pass (Alaska-BC)
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1897-1898	Bennett, BC
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1897-1898	Yukon
  Business Address/Year	Mar 1893-1902	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 534 Cordova St. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1903-1914	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 623 Granville St. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1880s	Waterloo, ON
  Association	Edwards, Edgar Herbert (Relationship: Partner)
  Association	Edwards, George William (Relationship: Partner)
  Association	Vancouver Arts and Crafts Association (Relationship: Member)
  Association	Nickson, Ralph (Relationship: Assistant)
  Association	Smith, M. (Relationship: Employee)
  Association	Hood, John (Relationship: Gilder)
  Association	Hood, Roy Franklin (Relationship: Framer)
  Association	Lennox, William Frederick (Relationship: Photographer; clerk)
  Person ID	I259	Camera Workers | E, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2023

  
  

• Photos		Sergeant Major J.C. Cornish, 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, 1900 Photographed by the Edwards Brothers.
  		Edwards Brothers stereo, ca. 1907. The photograph depicts the Capilano River dam, part of the Vancouver waterworks system. This stereograph series is titled "British Columbia Scenery".

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Edwards Brothers news, Vancouver Daily World, 18 Nov 1891, p. 2. This news item specifies the name of their studio as the Pioneer Art Gallery.
  		Edwards Brothers news, Vancouver Daily World, 17 Jul 1892, p. 8. When the Doering and Marstrand Brewery opened in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood of Vancouver, the Edwards Brothers photographed the building.
  		Edwards Brothers ad, Vancouver Daily World, 16 Mar 1893, p. 4. This ad notifies the public of the move of their studio from 622 Cordova St. to 534 Cordova St.
  		Edwards Brothers ad, Vancouver Daily World, 9 Dec 1893, p. 4. Like many other photographers, the Edwards Brothers targeted Christmas shoppers.
  		Edwards Brothers news, Vancouver Weekly World, 19 Jul 1894, p. 9, part 1. This item was from a supplement to the newspaper titled "Canadian Pacific Review."
  		Edwards Brothers news, Vancouver Weekly World, 19 Jul 1894, p. 9, part 2. This item was from a supplement to the newspaper titled "Canadian Pacific Review."
  		Edwards Brothers news, Vancouver Weekly World, 19 Jul 1894, p. 9, part 3. This item was from a supplement to the newspaper titled "Canadian Pacific Review."
  		Camera Club (Vancouver, 1897) news, Vancouver Daily World, 7 Jan 1897, p. 5. The first organizational meeting was held at the Edwards Brothers studio.
  		Camera Club (Vancouver, 1897) news, Vancouver Daily World, 8 Jan 1897, p. 8. A report of the first organizational meeting of the 1897 Vancouver Camera Club and the election of its executive.
  		Edwards Brothers news, Vancouver Daily News-Advertiser, 4 Dec 1897, p. 8. The Edwards Brothers published their own souvenir album of photographic views, British Columbia Illustrated, just in time for the local Christmas trade of 1897
  		Edwards Brothers news, Vancouver Semi-Weekly World, 20 Dec 1898, p. 7. This item highlights amateur photography products, in particular, Kodak equipment, at their store.
  		Edwards Brothers ad, Vancouver Daily News-Advertiser, 29 Jan 1899, p. 5. In this ad the partnership guarantees the permanency of their platinum photographs. Other Vancouver photographers who used this process were R.H. Trueman and S.J. Thompson.
  		Vancouver Cricket Club ad, Vancouver Daily World, 12 Mar 1894, p. 2. The club arranged with the Edwards Brothers to take portraits at a benefit ball at the Hotel Vancouver.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Studio; Photo supplies; Stereo publisher. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Active as photographers in Waterloo, ON, prior to moving to Vancouver in 1891, the brothers, George William and Edgar Herbert, were very successful as portrait photographers. Among their work were indoor-flash group portraits such as the Cricket Club costumed ball in the mid-1890s. Their original location on Cordova St. was known as the Pioneer Art Gallery. The Edwards Brothers also took landscape photos such as a series documenting the damage to the Canadian Pacific Railway line by the Fraser River flood of 1894. George also photographed in the Yukon Territory in 1898 during the Klondike gold rush. Although the firm remained in business until 1920, it was last listed in the 1911 directory as photographers. Between 1911 and 1920 the company concentrated on photographic and motion picture supply sales. FORMATS: Stereographs. IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Edwards Bros. Vancouver, B.C." on negative, print mount or stamped on verso. Prints may be captioned and numbered. At least one stereograph series is titled on the mount front "British Columbia Scenery". REFERENCES: WIL94; WIL95; HEN97; WIL97; WIL99; HEN00; HEN11; Telegram, 1892 01 23/1; News-Advertiser, 1893 03 16/4; Edwards Bros. (1898 08); Howay & Scholefield (1914):v. 3, 397-8; Friesen (1981):85; NWMP Post, Chilkoot Pass Summit, 1898); BVIPA Reference Room VF.

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. Prints [S45] COLLECTION: BVAA. [S134] COLLECTION: BVA. including Yukon prints [S627] (Vancouver) World, (Vancouver: World), 4 Apr 1894, 3. News item about the flash photographs taken by the Edwards Brothers at the Cricket Club costumed ball. [S976] British Columbia Magazine, (Vancouver : Man-to-Man Co.), Jun 1911. classified: PHOTOGRAPHERS [S747] HENVAN14, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1914), 801. Vancouver [S626] (Vancouver) News-Advertiser, (Vancouver: News-Advertiser), 18 Jul 1891, 8. Hardiman enlarges his business by taking over the store next door.