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Photos
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 | Dr. A.R. Benson and his wife, 1860s. Studio portrait by J.W. Vaughan. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records item number B-00931 (HP028892). | 21 Oct 2021 | |
 | 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 Museum; http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/I-69901/ | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | Butcher and Company ID, 1890s. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.H. Blome (Ashcroft) ID, ca. 1895-1896. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | W.T. Cooksley ID, 1908-1913. | 13 Oct 2021 | |
 | W.B. Young ID. | 13 Oct 2021 | |
 | Sparshatt and Barr ID, ca. 1947-1948 | 13 Oct 2021 | |
 | Rosetta Ann Studio ID, between 1942 and 1951. | 13 Oct 2021 | |
 | Lake Studio ID, Grand Forks, ca. 1916-1918. | 12 Oct 2021 | |
 | Newton H. Chittenden and Haida guides, Haida Gwaii, 28 Apr 1884. Richard Maynard accompanied on Chittenden on his exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) An engraving based on this photograph, with the photographer added, was published in Chittenden's Hyda Land and People (1884). Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records call no. A-02042. | 11 Oct 2021 | |
 | K.G. McKenzie ID. Blind-embossed imprint on the print surface. | 10 Oct 2021 | |
 | Jus-Rite Photos Ltd. ID as Jus-Rite Studio. | 10 Oct 2021 | |
 | The Savannah, Hastings Art Studio ID At the bottom of a card mount. | 10 Oct 2021 | |
 | Henry Greensfelder ID. Stamp (purple ink) on verso of tintype. | 9 Oct 2021 | |
 | Gibson Studio ID. | 9 Oct 2021 | |
 | Harold Fleming ID, after 1914. The Fleming Brothers dissolved their partnership around 1914. | 9 Oct 2021 | |
 | F.L. Hacking ID, ca. 1908. | 9 Oct 2021 | |
 | C.W. Sillence portrait, late 1890s? A carte-de-visite taken in Bournemouth, Eng., UK. | 9 Oct 2021 | |
 | David Spencer Limited, Photographic Department, ID. | 9 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.D. Allen Photographic Company's business, Prince Rupert, 1908. Section of Library and Archives Canada Item ID 3307979. | 9 Oct 2021 | |
 | Celebratory arch at Prince Rupert, 20 Aug 1910. The arch was on 6th St. and was erected for the occasion of Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier's visit to the city. Photograph by J.D. Allen Photographic Company. Library and Archives Canada A-123738 (accession no. 1980-135 NPC) | 9 Oct 2021 | |
 | "'Evening' on Burrard Inlet" by Robert M. Love, 1907. This photograph was featured in his ad in Henderson's City of Vancouver Directory 1908, p. 139. The Wikimedia page mistitled it "Evenings on Burrard Inlet" There are quotation marks on the mount around the word evening to indicate this image was manipulated in the darkroom to produce an evening or nighttime effect. Part of the Canadian Copyright Collection at the British Library. | 6 Oct 2021 | |
 | Harold Fleming ID. On front of photo mount. | 2 Oct 2021 | |
 | Bridgman's Studio signature, 1926 The photograph depicts members of the Alpha Iota Chapter of the Phi Kappa Pi Fraternity, U.B.C., 1926. City of Vancouver Archives reference code AM427-S4-: CVA 289-054 | 2 Oct 2021 | |
 | Bridgman's Studio signature, 1921 "Arts '25". The photograph shows the entering class of 1925 at the University of British Columbia in fall of 1921. | 2 Oct 2021 | |
 | Bridgman's Studio label, ca. 1915. On the front of a mounted montage. The photograph depicts the 1914-1915 class of Vancouver Business Institute, Sprott-Shaw. City of Vancouver Archives reference code AM54-S4-: Sch N118.1 | 2 Oct 2021 | |
 | Hannah Maynard's obituary, Daily Colonist, 17 May 1918, p. 7, part 3. | 2 Oct 2021 | |
 | Hannah Maynard's obituary, Daily Colonist, 17 May 1918, p. 7, part 2. | 2 Oct 2021 | |
 | Hannah Maynard's obituary, Daily Colonist, 17 May 1918, p. 7, part 1. | 2 Oct 2021 | |
 | Hannah Maynard portrait, ca. 1890s. | 1 Oct 2021 | |
 | Trio of unidentified photographers at a Vancouver baseball game, 1915. Photographed by W.J. Moore, the photograph is captioned "'Opening Game Base Ball Season 1915' 'Vancouver vs. Victoria'". City of Vancouver Archives AM54-S4-3-: PAN N14B. | 26 Sep 2021 | |
 | Unidentified photographer at a Vancouver baseball game, 1915. Photographed by W.J. Moore, the photograph is captioned "'Opening Game Base Ball Season 1915' 'Vancouver vs. Victoria'". City of Vancouver Archives AM54-S4-3-: PAN N14B. | 26 Sep 2021 | |
 | Cinematographer at a Vancouver baseball game, 1915. Photographed by W.J. Moore, the motion picture operator is believed to be A.D. "Cowboy" Kean. The photograph is captioned "'Opening Game Base Ball Season 1915' 'Vancouver vs. Victoria'". City of Vancouver Archives AM54-S4-3-: PAN N14B. | 26 Sep 2021 | |
 | Google Maps Street View enlargement showing Foxall Photo Studio skylight in Sayward Building Current address, 1201-1213 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC. | 26 Sep 2021 | |
 | Foxall Photo Studio sign, Sayward Building, Douglas St., Victoria, BC Enlargement from glass media showing "Foxall, Photo Studio" sign and studio skylight, Sayward Building (current address, 1201-1213 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC). The full version of this photograph, credited to Fleming [Brothers?], is available online through the BC Archives at http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/looking-south-on-douglas-street-from-northwest-corner-of-yates-street-victoria | 26 Sep 2021 | |
 | Art Jones among Artray studio equipment, 1950. Vancouver Public Library accession number 81260. | 26 Sep 2021 | |
 | J.D. Allen Photographic Company logo. BC Archives Visual Records item B-07922. | 24 Sep 2021 | |
 | J.D. Allen Photographic Company logo BC Archives Visual Records item A-00475. | 24 Sep 2021 | |
 | Dedman Photography Shop signature. | 22 Sep 2021 |
Documents
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 | Vaughan's Photographic Gallery ad, Victoria Colonist, 16 Jan 1865, p. 1. Ad for the sale of his studio due to his imminent departure for Honduras. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.W. Vaughan news item, Victoria Colonist, 29 Apr 1864, p.3. About the theft of a photographic case by a "boy" who was sentenced to the chain gang. Two years later the same thing happened to G.R. Fardon at his studio. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.W. Vaughan ad no. 2, Victoria Colonist, 10 Jun 1864, p. 1. This ad first appeared in early Mar 1864 in the Colonist following the dissolution of the Vaughan and Robertson partnership. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | Vaughan and Robertson's ad, Victoria Colonist, 8 Aug 1863, p. 3. This ad first appeared on or around 5 Aug 1863. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.A. Vaughan's ad, Victoria Colonist, 1 May 1863, p. 1. This ad first appeared in the Colonist as early as 16 Mar 1863, p. 3. Its last appearance in the Colonist was in early Aug 1863 just prior to the first ad for the Vaughan and Robertson partnership. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | Vaughan's Photographic Gallery ad, Victoria Colonist, 22 Jan 1863, p. 3. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | Vaughan and Fulton ad, Victoria Colonist, 31 Oct 1862, p. 2. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | Vaughan and Fulton ad, Victoria Colonist, 18 Dec 1862, p. 2. Their dissolution of partnership notice. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | Vaughan's Photographic Gallery ad, Victoria Colonist, 7 Sep 1864, p. 2. This ad notes the hiring of G.H. Brown, an experienced photographer from the U.S. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | Vaughan's Photographic Gallery news item, Victoria Colonist, 7 Sep 1864, p. 3. Without naming him, this news item notes the hiring of G.H. Brown by J.W. Vaughan. | 22 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.W. Vaughan's cartouche from the verso of a carte-de-visite portrait. Portrait of Israel Wood Powell, Jr. Image courtesy of BC Archives, Visual Records item number B-01965 (HP030764). | 21 Oct 2021 | |
 | Vaughan's Photographic Gallery's ad, The British Columbian and Victoria Guide and Directory for 1863, p. 18. The studio was in the Victoria Theatre building. | 21 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.W. Vaughan's ad, Victoria Colonist, 8 Aug 1864, p. 1. | 21 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.W. Vaughan's ad, Victoria Colonist, 10 Jun 1864, p. 1. | 21 Oct 2021 | |
 | George Robinson's ad, First Victoria Directory, Second Issue, and British Columbia Guide (Mallandaine, April 1868), p. 42. He also advertised himself in this directory as a "surgical and mechanical dentist." | 20 Oct 2021 | |
 | George Robinson's ad, Victoria Colonist, 9 May 1864, p. 2. | 20 Oct 2021 | |
 | George Robinson's ad, Victoria Colonist, 29 Mar 1869, p. 2. While in business as a dentist, he advertises his intention of selling the Theatre Photographic Gallery during his absence from Victoria. | 20 Oct 2021 | |
 | George Robinson's ad, Victoria Colonist, 4 Jul 1864, p. 2. He notes that he has returned from a tour of the Northwest Coast, yet did not state that he had taken photographs. | 20 Oct 2021 | |
 | Carlo Gentile's ad, Victoria Colonist, 21 Aug 1863, p. 2. This ad first appeared on 14 Aug 1863 and implies he was looking for photographic equipment for himself. | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | G.R. Fardon's obituary, Victoria Colonist, 21 Aug 1886, p. 3. | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | G.R. Fardon's ad, Victoria Colonist, 19 Sep 1869, p. 2. | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | G.R. Fardon news item, Victoria Colonist, 27 Jun 1866, p. 3. About a theft of photographs with a humourous twist. | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | G.R. Fardon's ad, Victoria Colonist, 4 Oct 1862 10 04, p. 2. | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | G.R. Fardon's ad, Victoria Colonist, 3 Nov 1863, p. 4. This ad first appeared in late Oct 1863. | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | 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. | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | G.R. Fardon's ad, Colonist, 11 Mar 1861 03, p. 3. | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | Noah Shakespeare's ad for Fardon's Photographic Gallery, Victoria Colonist, 23 Feb 1866, p. 3. | 19 Oct 2021 | |
 | S.A. Spencer ad, Daily Colonist, 21 Sep 1860, p. 1. Announcing his new location at the corner of Trounce and Government streets. | 18 Oct 2021 | |
 | S.A. Spencer ad, Daily Colonist, 9 Jul 1875, p. 2. | 18 Oct 2021 | |
 | S.A. Spencer's ad, Victoria Gazette, 23 Jul 1859. 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. | 18 Oct 2021 | |
 | 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. | 18 Oct 2021 | |
 | 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. | 18 Oct 2021 | |
 | S.A. Spencer's ad, Daily Colonist, 14 Jan 1862, p. 3. | 18 Oct 2021 | |
 | 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. | 17 Oct 2021 | |
 | S.A. Spencer's ad, Daily Colonist, 1 Jun 1875, p. 4. Announcing he is vacating his Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery location on Government St. and moving his studio to Fort St. near Broad St. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | 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. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | 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. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.A. Craigg news item, Daily Colonist, 13 Aug 1872, p. 3. He left for England and then planned on moving to one of the southern United States. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | Craigg's Photographic Gallery ad, Daily Colonist, 12 Apr 1872, p. 2. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery ad, First Victoria Directory, Third Issue, and British Columbia Guide (Mallandaine, 1869), p. 75. Operated by J.A. Craigg who had acquired it from George Robinson in the spring 1869. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.A. Craigg's letter to the editor, Daily Colonist, 4 Nov 1869. In this letter to the editor of the Colonist, J.A. Craigg objected to Noah Shakespeare's accusation that a "licentious photograph" had been taken in the Theatre Photographic Gallery. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.A. Craigg's cartouche from the back of a carte-de-visite, ca. 1870 R.S. Vickers (1917-2008), who owned this carte-de-visite, was the great-grandson of photographer George Robinson, a contemporary of Craigg's and who had also once operated the Theatre Photographic Gallery. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.A. Craigg's ad, Victoria Standard, 14 Jul 1870, p. 4. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.A. Craigg's ad, Daily Colonist, 22 Jun 1869. Craigg acquired the Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery from George Robinson in May or June 1869. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.A. Craigg cartouche from the back of a carte-de-visite portrait, between 1869-1872. From verso of BC Archives carte-de-visite in Hunter album no. 3, p. 37. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | J.H. Blome, Ashcroft, ad, Midway The Advance, 20 May 1895, p. 2. The ad notes the places throughout the Boundary country at which he will stop to take photographs. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | Uren and Hoyt's ad, Colonist (Victoria), 9 Jun 1874. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | Uren and Hoyt's ad, Colonist (Victoria), 2 May 1874. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | 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. | 16 Oct 2021 | |
 | Noah Shakespeare's ad, Victoria Daily Standard, 20 Aug 1870, p. 2. Announcing that he has improved the studio's lighting. The mention of a "large selection of Indian portraits" may refer to the work of his predecessor, Carlo Gentile. | 16 Oct 2021 |
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