Elite Photo Studio (Nanaimo)[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
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Name Elite Photo Studio (Nanaimo) - VARIANT NAME: Elite Photo Company.
Gender Unknown Business Address/Year 1893-1895 Nanaimo, BC 
Address:
Commercial St.
Nanaimo, BC
CanadaBusiness Address/Year 1897 Nanaimo, BC Association Larss and Pierce (Relationship: Manager) Association Adams and Pierce (Relationship: Manager) Association Pierce, W.C. (Relationship: Proprietor) Person ID I535 Camera Workers | E, vol. 1, 1858-1900 Last Modified 5 Nov 2021
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Photos 
Elite Photo Studio ID, 1890s.
Private collection.
Elite Photo Studio ID, 1890s.
Private collection
Documents 
Elite Photo Studio (Nanaimo) ad, Daily Telegram, 29 Mar 1894, p. 1. 
W.C. Pierce news item, Courtenay Weekly News, 14 Jun 1893, p1.
This item notes he is the operator of the Elite Photo Studio in Nanaimo.
Kelly and Pierce ad, (Courtenay) Weekly News, 19 Nov 1895, p. 1 and 4.
This ad also appeared in this newspaper in early Oct 1895.
M.F. Kelly article, (Courtenay) Weekly News, 19 Nov 1895, p. 8
About the construction of his photo studio in Union.
Elite Photo Studio, Nanaimo Daily Telegram, 9 Nov 1893, p. 1.
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Notes - STATUS: Studio.
- BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This was operated by Larss & Pierce (1895) and Adams & Pierce (1897).
- IDENTIFYING MARKS: "The Elite Photo S. Nanaimo, B.C." on verso of print mount.
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Sources - [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA.
Print surface marked "Taken by flash light, at night, by the Elite Photo Co., Nanaimo, B.C."
Print (reference code E-08099; archives code HP088384) - [S64] COLLECTION: BNCM.
- [S33] WIL94, Williams' B.C. Directory Co., comp., (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1894).
Nanaimo: not listed - [S34] WIL95, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1895), 239.
Nanaimo: Elite Photo Studio, The, P E Larss & W C Pierce, Commercial - [S36] HEN97, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1897), 364.
Nanaimo: Elite Photo Co., Pierce & Adams - [S38] HEN98, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1898).
Nanaimo: not listed
- [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA.