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  • Name Trueman and Caple  
    Gender Unknown 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) Sep 1891  Revelstoke, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Trueman photographed around Griffin Lake. 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) Jul 1892  Revelstoke, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Business Address/Year 1889?-1893  Vancouver, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    302 Cordova St.
    Vancouver, BC
    Canada 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) Jan 1894  Revelstoke, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Association Blackett, Cuthbert (Relationship: Employer) 
    Association Trueman, Richard Henry (Relationship: Partner) 
    Association Caple, Norman (Relationship: Partner) 
    Person ID I44  Camera Workers | T, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 9 Jul 2024 

  • Photos
    Trueman and Caple portrait of Norman Caple, ca. 1890.    		Trueman and Caple portrait of Norman Caple, ca. 1890.
    City of Vancouver Archives reference code AM1376-: CVA 159-2
    Trueman and Caple exterior portrait, 1889?-1893.    		Trueman and Caple exterior portrait, 1889?-1893.
    The photograph depicts a man in a three-piece suit holding a hat against his right leg. He is seated in front of shrubbery.

    Documents
    Trueman and Caple's logo from the verso of a landscape photograph.    		Trueman and Caple's logo from the verso of a landscape photograph.
    The photograph depicts the yacht "Syren" under sail with the Evans, Coleman and Evans dock and building in the background. Image courtesy of City of Vancouver Archives, Add. MSS. 54, Major Matthews collection, Collected photographs, Bo P152 (Bo N52).
    Trueman and Caple news, Revelstoke <i>Kootenay Star</i>, 12 Sep 1891, p. 2.    		Trueman and Caple news, Revelstoke Kootenay Star, 12 Sep 1891, p. 2.
    R.H. Trueman visited and photographed around Griffin Lake.
    Trueman and Caple news, Revelstoke <i>Kootenay Star</i>, 23 Jul 1892, p. 4.    		Trueman and Caple news, Revelstoke Kootenay Star, 23 Jul 1892, p. 4.
    Trueman and Caple news, Revelstoke <i>Kootenay Star</i>, 13 Jan 1894, p. 1.    		Trueman and Caple news, Revelstoke Kootenay Star, 13 Jan 1894, p. 1.
    Trueman returned to Revelstoke specifically to photograph the winter scenery and to take portraits.

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Studio.
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This was the partnership of R.H. Trueman and N. Caple. Their catalogue, published about 1891, listed views numbered from 500 to 985 in three sizes: 8 x 10 in., 5 x 8 in., and 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (cabinet portrait size).
    • IDENTIFYING MARKS: label on verso of print "Trueman & Caple, Photographers, Views on C.P.R. From Atlantic to Pacific, Great Variety of Indian Scenes..." or "Trueman & Caple, Photographers, Vancouver, B.C." stamped in purple ink on verso of print mount or print surface numbered, captioned and marked "Trueman & Caple, Photo, Vancouver." Some prints are numbered and captioned or only captioned. "Trueman & Caple Photographers S.W. Cor. Cordova and Cambie Streets Vancouver, B.C." (gold) printed at bottom of print mount. [10]

  • Sources 
    1. [S45] COLLECTION: BVAA.
      Glass negatives and prints

    2. [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA.
      Prints

    3. [S152] COLLECTION: OOA.
      Album

    4. [S154] COLLECTION: OONG.
      Prints

    5. [S48] COLLECTION: ACG.
      Prints

    6. [S134] COLLECTION: BVA.
      Glass negatives? and prints

    7. [S30] WIL92, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1892).

    8. [S33] Williams' B.C. Directory Co., comp., WIL94, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1894).

    9. [S568] Trueman & Caple, photographers, Trueman & Caple (1891?), (Vancouver: Trythall, City Printing Works, 1891?) (Reliability: 3).

    10. [S657] Facebook.com.
      Digital facsimile URL (accessed 30 Aug 2019): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2857673167582312&set=a.2116078951741741&type=3&theater