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Berlin Portrait Company[1, 2, 3]



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  • Name Berlin Portrait Company  
    Gender Unknown 
    Business Address/Year 189-?  Winnipeg, MB Find all individuals with events at this location 
     
    Address:
    213 Rupert West
    Winnipeg, MB
    Canada 
    Business Address/Year 1895  Victoria, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    32 Government St.
    Victoria, BC
    Canada 
    Business Address/Year Feb-Mar 1896  Winnipeg, MB Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Manitoba Hotel
    Winnipeg, MB
    Canada 
    Association Bentley, Wesley D. (Relationship: Manager) 
    Association Nelkin, J. (Relationship: Employee) 
    Person ID I382  Camera Workers | B, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 17 Feb 2017 

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Studio.
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This studio was managed by Wesley D. Bentley. One of his photographers was J. Nelkin. Dempsey has the company in Winnipeg in the 1890s(?) at 213 Rupert West with George Bentley, proprietor, Wesley D. Bentley, assistant manager, and David Fieldman, artist.
    • FORMATS: Portraits.

  • Sources 
    1. [S34] WIL95, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1895).

    2. [S8] Dempsey (1978), Dempsey, Hugh, (Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1978), 5.

    3. [S610] Maurice (1996-), Philippe Maurice, (Calgary, Alta.: Philmsearch, Inc., 1996-), 454.
      A February-March 1896 ad from The Colonist (Winnipeg) for the Berlin Portrait Company gives its address as the Manitoba Hotel, Winnipeg