Name | Spencer, Stephen Allen | |
Born | 30 Jul 1829 | New London, CT ![]() |
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Gender | Male | |
Business Address/Year | 1858?-1860 | Victoria, BC ![]() |
Address: Yates St. Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | 1860-1862 | Victoria, BC ![]() |
Address: Trounce corner of Government St. Victoria, BC Canada | ||
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Business Address/Year | 1862-1864 | Victoria, BC ![]() |
Address: Yates St. two doors above Broad St. Victoria, BC Canada | ||
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Home Address/Year | 1870 | Sitka, AK ![]() |
Address: Sitka, AK USA | ||
Business Address/Year | 1872-1875 | Victoria, BC ![]() |
Address: Government St. (W. side near View St.) Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | 1875-1882 | Victoria, BC ![]() |
Address: Fort St. (Hayward & Jenkinson Block, 2nd Floor) near Broad St., opposite Fell & Co's Grocery Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Home Address/Year | 1882-1885 | Victoria, BC ![]() |
Address: View St. Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Died | 15 Aug 1911 | Victoria, BC ![]() |
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Association | Desmond, Robert Ansley Brittain (Relationship: Employee) | |
Association | Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery (Relationship: Owner) | |
Association | Spencer and Hastings (Relationship: Partner) | |
Association | Miller (Relationship: Employee) | |
Association | Boas, Franz (Relationship: Acquaintance) | |
Person ID | I452 | Camera Workers | S, vol. 1, 1858-1900 |
Last Modified | 7 Jul 2022 |
Photos | ![]() | A photographer, possibly Arthur S. Rappertie, timing an exposure. Photograph by S.A. Spencer. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. G-03300 (catalogue no. HP096449); copied from Camera album no. 37. |
![]() | Arthur Vipond photographed by S.A. Spencer. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue no. HP097939 (item H-01219). | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer portrait, ca. 1858. Courtesy of BC Archives, item A-02474. |
Documents | ![]() | Spencer and Hastings cartouche from the verso of photograph. |
![]() | Spencer and Hastings identification on front of photo mount. | |
![]() | Spencer and Hastings cartouche from verso of photograph. | |
![]() | Spencer and Hastings cartouche from verso of photograph. | |
![]() | Spencer and Hastings cartouche from verso of photograph. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer cartouche from verso of a portrait. Portrait of James Robert Anderson, son of A. C. Anderson. Courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue no. HP002232 (item G-07221). | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer cartouche from verso of a portrait, Nov 1875. Portrait of Mrs. James Robert Anderson. Courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue no. HP022004 (item A-07776). | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer cartouche from verso of a portrait. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records catalogue no. HP049988. | |
![]() | S.A Spencer cartouche from the verso of a photograph. This design also appears on the verso of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. A-01976 (catalogue no. HP004807). | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer cartouche from the verso of a photograph. | |
![]() | Noah Shakespeare's news item, Daily Colonist, 23 Oct 1874, p. 3. Announcing that he has hired R.A. Desmond from Spencer's Gallery. The ad implies he was once more the owner of the Shakespeare Photographic Gallery following its brief tenure as Uren and Hoyt. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer's ad, Daily Colonist, 5 Jun 1872, p. 2. Announcing he has purchased Craigg's Photographic Gallery; the ad first appeared in the Daily Colonist on 9 May 1872, p. 2. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer news item, Daily Colonist, 7 Nov 1874, p. 3. Noting his return from San Francisco "with improved appliances for taking and finishing pictures," along with Mr. Miller, a retoucher from an unnamed San Francisco studio. | |
![]() | Craigg's Photographic Gallery news item, Daily Colonist, 19 Apr 1872, p. 3. Reporting that J.A. Craigg has sold his studio to S.A. Spencer. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer's ad, Daily Colonist, 5 Nov 1874, p. 1. This ad first appeared in mid-October to advise his customers that his studio would be closed while he was away in San Francisco in search of a retoucher. He returned with a Mr. Miller. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer's ad, Daily Colonist, 14 Jan 1862, p. 3. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer news item, Daily Colonist, 15 Jan 1862, p. 3. Advising of his new studio at the corner of Yates and Broad streets. An earlier ad confirms its location on Yates St. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer ad, Daily Colonist, 9 Jul 1875, p. 2. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer ad, Daily Colonist, 21 Sep 1860, p. 1. This ad, which first appeared on 2 Aug 1860, announced his new location at the corner of Trounce and Government streets. The initial ad was placed for one month and renewed on 2 Sep 1860. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer's ad, Victoria Colonist, 29 Apr 1875, p. 2. First appearance of this ad in which he announces he is vacating his Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery location on Government St. and moving his studio to Fort St. near Broad St. | |
![]() | Spencer and Hastings ad, Victoria Colonist, 12 Jan 1884, p. 4. | |
![]() | Spencer and Hastings ad, San Francisco Journal of Commerce, BC Edition, 4 Dec 1884, p. 4. Note that they manufactured dry plates, most likely strictly for the local market. | |
![]() | San Francisco Journal of Commerce, BC Edition, 4 Dec 1884, p. 2. This news item, as did the ad, notes their manufacture of dry plates. | |
![]() | Spencer and Hastings news, Victoria Colonist, 27 May 1883, p. 3. The photographs were taken on 24 May during the Queen's Birthday celebrations. | |
![]() | Spencer and Hastings news, Victoria Colonist, 27 May 1883, p. 3. Further details about the photos taken by O.C. Hastings on 24 May during the Queen's Birthday celebrations. | |
![]() | Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery news, Victoria Daily Chronicle, 22 Apr 1865, p. 3. S.A. Spencer is the photographer referenced in this item about photographs of President Lincoln. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer news, Victoria Colonist, 2 Aug 1860, p. 2. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer obituary, Victoria Colonist, 16 Aug 1911, p. 7. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer's ad, Victoria Gazette, 23 Jul 1859, p. 2. As the daguerreotype was a 20 year old process by 1859 and had by then been superseded by the wet collodion (wet plate) negative process, it is unlikely Spencer was taking daguerreotypes. | |
![]() | S.A. Spencer ad, Victoria Colonist, 14 Jul 1872, p. 2. This ad under his ownership of the Theatre Photographic Gallery first appeared around 12 Jun 1872. |
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