Name | Hall and Lowe | |
Gender | Unknown | |
Business Address/Year | 1884-1888 | Victoria, BC ![]() |
Studio opened 9 Nov 1884 | ||
Address: Government St. over Victoria House Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | 1887-1891 | Vancouver, BC ![]() |
Also doing business as Vancouver Photo Company | ||
Address: 416 Cordova St. Vancouver, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | 1892 | Vancouver, BC ![]() |
Partnership dissolved 30 Apr 1892 | ||
Address: 518 Cordova St. Vancouver, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | 1889-1892 | Victoria, BC ![]() |
Partnership dissolved 30 Apr 1892 | ||
Address: 63 Government St. Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Association | Hall, James Deakin (Relationship: Partner) | |
Association | Vancouver Photographic Company (Relationship: Branch studio) | |
Association | Lowe, Skene (Relationship: Partner) | |
Person ID | I176 | Camera Workers | H, vol. 1, 1858-1900 |
Last Modified | 13 Nov 2021 |
Photos | ![]() | Hall and Lowe studio portrait, Victoria, 1889-1892. The photograph is a head-and-shoulders of an unidentified woman. Courtesy of UBC Library, Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs, UL_2001_0007 |
![]() | Hall and Lowe studio portrait, Victoria, 1884-1888. The photograph is a studio head-and-shoulders of a man. |
Documents | ![]() | Hall and Lowe's ad from Trout's Prospectors' Manual (1886). |
![]() | Hall and Lowe's first Victoria, B.C., ad, Colonist, 8 Nov 1884, p. 2. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe news item, San Francisco Journal of Commerce, BC Edition, Feb 1888, p. 2. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe ad, San Francisco Journal of Commerce, BC Edition, Feb 1888, p. 4. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe news article, Victoria Colonist, 2 Sep 1884, p. 3. About Hall's occupancy of part of the Denny building on Government St. over the Victoria House store. Hall was later joined by Skene Lowe who operated Hall and Lowe in Victoria while Hall eventually relocated to Vancouver by 1887. | |
![]() | Skene Lowe article, Victoria Colonist, Special Ed., 5 Apr 1896, p. 7, part 1. | |
![]() | Skene Lowe article, Victoria Colonist, Special Ed., 5 Apr 1896, p. 7, part 2. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe imprint from the verso of a card mount, ca. Nov 1884-1888. The photograph is a studio head-and-shoulders portrait of a man. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe news, Victoria Colonist, 4 Jun 1885, p. 3. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe imprint, front of mounted photograph, 1880s. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe imprint, verso of mounted photograph, ca. Nov 1884-1888. The photograph is a studio portrait of Annie Muir. Courtesy of UBC Library, Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs, UL_1043_0010. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe news, Victoria Colonist, 26 Jun 1887, p. 4. Hall and Lowe sold photographs of paintings by Charles A. de L'Aubiniere. Examples of some of his paintings are preserved by the BC Archives. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe news, Victoria Colonist, 24 Jun 1887, p. 4, part 1. A lengthy description of paintings of Greater Victoria scenery by the artist Charles A. de L'Aubiniere, examples of which are preserved by the BC Archives, concludes with a collaboration between the artist and Hall and Lowe to sell photographs of eight of his paintings. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe news, Victoria Colonist, 24 Jun 1887, p. 4, part 2. A lengthy description of paintings of Greater Victoria scenery by the artist Charles A. de L'Aubiniere, examples of which are preserved by the BC Archives, concludes with a collaboration between the artist and Hall and Lowe to sell photographs of eight of his paintings. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe news, Victoria Colonist, 24 Jun 1887, p. 4, part 3. A lengthy description of paintings of Greater Victoria scenery by the artist Charles A. de L'Aubiniere, examples of which are preserved by the BC Archives, concludes with a collaboration between the artist and Hall and Lowe to sell photographs of eight of his paintings. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe ad, Victoria Colonist, 23 May 1892, p. 7. This dissolution of partnership ad is dated 1 May 1892. Skene Lowe would continue to operate as Hall and Lowe in Victoria and J.D. Hall would continue to own the Vancouver Photographic Company, which by Jun 1892 David Wadds was managing. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe news, Victoria Colonist, 8 Jun 1892, p. 5. Following the dissolution of the Hall and Lowe partnership, with Skene Lowe carrying on business in Victoria under the name, he commissioned the architect Thomas Hooper to make improvements to his studio space. | |
![]() | Hall and Lowe news, Victoria Colonist, 22 Jun 1892, p. 5. This news item announced the opening of the remodelled Hall and Lowe studio. |
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