Name | Fardon's Photographic Gallery | |
Gender | Unknown | |
Business Address/Year | 1861-Oct 1863 | Victoria, BC |
Address: Government St. Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | 1863 | Victoria, BC |
Address: 68 Government St. Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Business Address/Year | Oct 1863-Jul 1871 | Victoria, BC |
The studio was at this address until at least Jul 1871. | ||
Address: Langley St. at Yates St. Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Association | Fardon, George Robinson (Relationship: Proprietor) | |
Association | Shakespeare, Noah (Relationship: Manager) | |
Person ID | I2293 | Camera Workers | F, vol. 1, 1858-1900 |
Last Modified | 19 Oct 2021 |
Photos | Victoria from St. Nicholas Hotel, BC, Jul 1871. Visible on the building with the sign "Books and Stationery" is a sign below it identifying "Fardon's Photographic Gallery". Photograph by Benjamin Baltzly. Courtesy of McCord Stewart Museum; http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/I-69901/ |
Documents | Noah Shakespeare's ad for Fardon's Photographic Gallery, Victoria Colonist, 23 Feb 1866, p. 3. A similar ad was published in the Victoria Vancouver Post. | |
G.R. Fardon's ad, Victoria Colonist, 12 Jul 1865, p. 2. Fardon advises his customers and the public that during his absence his studio will be managed by Noah Shakespeare. This ad first appeared in early Jun 1865. | ||
G.R. Fardon's ad, Victoria Colonist, 3 Nov 1863, p. 4. This ad first appeared in late Oct 1863. | ||
G.R. Fardon's ad, Victoria Colonist, 4 Oct 1862, p. 2. | ||
G.R. Fardon news item, Victoria Colonist, 27 Jun 1866, p. 3. About a theft of photographs with a humourous twist. | ||
G.R. Fardon's ad, Victoria Colonist, 19 Sep 1869, p. 2. | ||
G.R. Fardon's ad in Joseph Park's A Practical View of the Mining Laws of British Columbia (1864), p. lxvii. Immediately below this ad was one for J.W. Vaughan. | ||
G.R. Fardon's ad, Victoria Colonist, 5 Mar 1861, p. 2. This ad is dated 2 Mar 1861. | ||
G.R. Fardon's ad, Victoria Daily Standard, 20 Jun 1870, p. 3. | ||
Noah Shakespeare's ad for Fardon's Photographic Gallery, Victoria Vancouver Post, 6 Mar 1866, p. 2 and 4. A similar ad was published in the Colonist. | ||
G.R. Fardon ad, Victoria Daily Chronicle, 31 Oct 1863, p. 2. The ad is dated 27 Oct and is very similar to an ad which started appearing at the same time in the Colonist. | ||
G.R. Fardon ad, Victoria Daily Chronicle, 2 Aug 1864, p. 2. This ad announced the auction on 4 Aug of his Government Street property where his studio had formerly been located. | ||
Mechanics' Literary Institute ad, Victoria Colonist, 19 Jan 1865, p. 1. This ad, which appeared as early as Dec 1864, mentions that the institute's rooms are on the first floor (one above ground level) of Fardon's building, which implies his ownership. | ||
G.R. Fardon ad, Victoria Daily Standard, 21 Jan 1873, p. 2. Fardon sold his household effects and his photo studio equipment in preparation for his move to California. He later returned to Victoria but did not take up photography again. | ||
G.R. Fardon news, Victoria Colonist, 4 Aug 1864, p. 3. The Colonist version of the Chronicle ad for the auction sale on 4 Aug of his Government Street property where his studio had formerly been located. | ||
G.R. Fardon imprint from verso of carte-de-visite. The front is a studio portrait of Lieutenant E.H. Verney who was then serving on HMS Grappler. The BC Archives version of this photograph is Item I-61283 (HP007434). This portrait is mentioned in a letter of 17 Mar 1863 from Verney to his father (Pritchard, ed., Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65, UBC Press, 1996, p. 128). |
Notes |
|