Coughlan, William Power^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]}

• Name	Coughlan, William Power
  	VARIANT NAMES: Coughlan, William C.; Coughlin, W.P.; Laughlan, M.P.
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	1888-1889	Nanaimo, BC
  	Address: Church St. Nanaimo, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1892	Nanaimo, BC
  	Address: Fitzwilliam St. Nanaimo, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1893	Nanaimo, BC
  	Address: Fitzpatrick St.? Nanaimo, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1895	Nanaimo, BC
  	Address: 26 Fitzpatrick St. Nanaimo, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1895-1900	Nanaimo, BC
  	He also lived at this address.
  	Address: 26 Fitzwilliam St. Nanaimo, BC Canada
  Person ID	I441	Camera Workers | C, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	12 Jul 2024

  
  

• Photos

  W.P. Coughlan studio portrait ID, 1888-1900. The photograph is a head-and-shoulders of a woman wearing a hat.

  
  

  Documents		Great Eastern Photographic and Advertising Co.'s letter ad, Nanaimo Free Press, 1 Aug 1888, p. 3. This notice provoked a sardonic reply from one of Nanaimo's resident photographers, W.P. Coughlan in the 4 Aug 1888 issue under the title "Oh, Photographic, Is It?"
  		W.P. Coughlan news, Nanaimo Free Press, 25 Jun 1889, p. 2. Coughlan was reacting to the presence of J.B. Uren who had opened a studio on 24 Jun 1889 under the name Mainland Photograph Company. As intimated by Coughlan, he faced the same issue in 1888 when the Great Eastern Photographic and Advertising Company visited Nanaimo.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The earliest mention of his work was an article which described a photograph he took of the ship Northbrook at anchor. An ad he ran in the Nanaimo paper described him as a "home photographer." His work was primarily portraiture. Coughlan was involved in an interesting exchange of newspaper letters with the itinerant firm the Great Eastern Photographic and Advertising Company in Jul 1888. IDENTIFYING MARKS: "W.P. Coughlan. Nanaimo B.[C.]" stamped on back of print mount.

  
  

• Sources

  [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), 1900, 1903, 1908, 1909, 1911, Ref. NW 324.1 B862. Nanaimo [S706] Nanaimo Free Press, 25 Jul 1888, 3. [S706] Nanaimo Free Press, 4 Aug 1888, 3. [S22] Draper, Thomas, comp., WIL89, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1889). Nanaimo [S24] HEN90, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Directory Co., 1890). Nanaimo [S28] HEN91, (Vancouver, B.C.: Henderson Directory Co., 1891). Nanaimo [S29] Halliday, W.M., comp., WIL91, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Willilams, 1890), 45. Nanaimo: Coughlan W P photographer Church [S30] WIL92, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1892). Nanaimo [S32] Williams' B.C. Directory Co., comp., WIL93, (Victoria, B.C.: Printed by the Victoria Printing Company, 1893). Nanaimo [S33] Williams' B.C. Directory Co., comp., WIL94, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1894), 722. Classified: Photographers: Coughlan Wm Nanaimo Nanaimo: not listed in alphabetic section [S34] WIL95, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1895), 236. Nanaimo: Coughlan W P photographer res 26 Fitzwilliam [S36] HEN97, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1897). Nanaimo: not listed in alphabetic; Classified: Photographers: not listed [S37] WIL97, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1897). Nanaimo: not listed in alphabetic section; Classified: Photographers: not listed [S38] HEN98, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1898), 252. Nanaimo: Coughlan W P photographer 26 Fitzwilliam [S40] Williams, R.T., comp., WIL99, (Victoria, B.C.: Province Publishing Co., 1899), 157. Nanaimo: Coughlan W P photographer 26 Fitzwilliam st [S39] HEN99, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1899), 314. Nanaimo: Coughlin [sic] W P photographer h 26 Fitzwilliam [S41] HEN00, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1900), 383. Nanaimo: Coughlin W P photographer h 26 Fitzwilliam [S42] HEN01, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1901). Nanaimo: not listed [S781] HEN02, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1902). Nanaimo: not listed [S782] HEN03, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1903). Nanaimo: not listed [S783] HEN04, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1904). Nanaimo: not listed [S785] HEN05, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1905). Nanaimo: not listed [S792] PROVI09, (Victoria: Provincial Publishing, 1909). Nanaimo: not listed [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910). Nanaimo: not listed [S793] HENVIC10, (Victoria: Henderson Publishing, 1911). Nanaimo: not listed