Camera Workers: The British Columbia, Alaska & Yukon Photographic
Directory, 1858-1950 - A - Volume 1 (1858-1900)
© 1999-2001 By
David Mattison
Updated: 2001.04.08.
NAME:
A. Douglas & Co.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: 615 Hastings St. (Innes Block)/1893 08-1896 09.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1893 08-1896 09.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Managed by A. Douglas and
H. Douglas, who were described as
"late of Glasgow, Scotland and Halifax, Eng.," the studio was upstairs at 615
Hastings opposite the Leland Hotel. The firm was out of business by September
1896 when a bailiff's sale was held that month to dispose of furniture and
photographic equipment.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL94; WIL95; News-Advertiser, 1893 08 23/8;
News-Advertiser, 1896 09 22; World, 1896 06 (Souvenir Edition).
A.C. Pillsbury Co. see
Pillsbury, Arthur Clarence.
Abbott, Harry see Vancouver Camera Club.
NAME: Aberdeen, Ishbel Maria,
Lady.
LIFE DATES: 1857 03 14-1939 04 18.
BIRTHPLACE: "Guisachan,"
Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: Aberdeen, Scotland.
WHERE ACTIVE: BC.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Ottawa (while in Canada).
WORK
INTERVAL: 1891.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The wife of
Governor-General John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen, she
published an account of her travels titled Through Canada with a Kodak
which included, obviously, "photographs taken by Lady Aberdeen's Kodak." She
supplemented her own work with photographs purchased along the way and singled
out for special mention the studios of
Notman of Montreal and
Boorne and May of Calgary.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Aberdeen (1893);
Morgan (1898); BVAA
newsclippings (obit.).
Acorn (HMS) photographer
see Anonymous (HMS
Acorn photographer).
NAME:
Adams, Edward C.
VARIANT: Adams & Co.; Adams & Larkin.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver
; Nanaimo ; Bennett (BC) ; Dawson (YT) ; Washington (state).
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR: Vancouver/1896 ; Nanaimo/1897 ; Washington/1898.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: 55 Cordova St. (Vancouver)/1896 ; Church St. (Nanaimo)/1897;
Juneau, AK/1932.
WORK INTERVAL: 1896-1901?.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Listed as an artist at C.W. Bart's studio in Vancouver in 1896, he
moved to Nanaimo and became a partner in Adams &
Pierce. As Adams & Co. he and partner
G.W. Larkin photographed the tent city
of Bennett in the spring of 1898. Adams was later located in Washington state.
COLLECTIONS/FORMAT: BVA; YWA; photo postcards (Adams & Co.).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: negatives titled and marked "Adams & Co." or "Adams
& Larkin, Dawson Y.T.".
REFERENCES: HOD96; HEN97; BVA (Bennett, 1898;
YWA no. 1980); Bronson (1977); Cohen (1977); Grainger, "Yukon Postcard
Checklist" (n.d.); Letter, Claes Jacobson to Mattison, 1984 11 28.
Adams & Co. see Adams, Edward C. and
Larkin, George W.
Adams
& Larkin see Adams, Edward
C. and Larkin, George W.
NAME: Adams & Pierce.
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo ; Washington (state).
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: Nanaimo/1897 ; Washington/1898.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This was the partnership of E.C.
Adams and W.C. Pierce.
P.E. Larss worked for the firm in 1898
when it was located in Washington.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN97; Letter, Claes Jacobson to Mattison, 1984 11 28.
NAME: Adney, Edwin Tappan.
LIFE DATES:
1868 __ __-1950 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Athens, OH.
PLACE OF DEATH:
Woodstock, ON.
WHERE ACTIVE: White Pass Trail (Skagway, AK) and Chilkoot
Pass Trail (Dyea) to Dawson and various Yukon mining sites/1897 08-1898-09;
Nome/1900.
STATUS: Photojournalist.
SUMMARY: Tappan Adney was
assigned to cover the Klondike stampede by Harper's Weekly (Harper &
Brothers). His employer also copied the material to the London (England)
Chronicle. Adney recounted his adventure in the classic The
Klondike Stampede. His camera outfit consisted of a "5 x 7 long-focus
Premo camera; ten dozen 5 x 7 cut films for use in plateholders (having the
advantage of lightness and unbreakableness); and eight spools of sensitive
film, of thirty-two exposures each, for use in a roll-holder, and expressly
ordered hermetically sealed in tins; in addition, a small pocket Kodak, taking
1 1/2 x 2-inch pictures, together with a complete developing outfit.
Glass plates were not taken, on account of weight and their liability to break
in the mail."
After losing his unsealed roll film and cut film to water
damage at Dyea while he was off struggling up the White Pass Trail, Adney was
later suprised to be offered roll film by a hotel proprietor at Sheep Camp on
the Chilkoot Trail and another camera plus roll film by a returning stampeder,
Charlie Brannon.
After leaving
the Yukon by travelling down the Yukon River to St. Michael and returning by
steamship to Seattle, Adney returned to New York to write his book, then was
dispatched again in 1900 to briefly cover the Nome Gold Rush. He retired
to Canada. He was living in Montreal around 1930 at 1220 Drummond St.
(Atwood) and later moved to New Brunswick. In addition to being
remembered today for his Yukon adventure, Adney was also an important figure
in, as John McPhee put it, The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975).
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS: none as published.
REFERENCES: Adney (1900);
Atwood (1930):125.
NAME: Agnew, William Burl.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort St./1890; 1894-1895.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: Chatham/1891 ; 10 Chatham/1892 ; N Chatham/1893 ; 85 Superior
St./1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890; 1894-1895.
STATUS: Commercial;
Retoucher; Finisher.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He worked as a photographer for
Savannah & Co. in 1890, then was
listed as a carpenter between 1891-1893. He appeared again as a retoucher for
Savannah in 1894, then once more as a photographer the next year.
REFERENCES: HEN90; HEN91; WIL92; WIL93; WIL94; WIL95.
Alaska Photo Co. see Goetze,
O.D.
Alaska View & Photo Co. see
Pillsbury, Arthur Clarence.
Albrecht, A. Hugo see
Albrecht, A. A.
NAME: Albrecht, A.A.
VARIANT: Albrecht,
A. Hugo.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Sandon.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The New
Denver Ledger reported this Spokane photographer as having opened a studio
in Sandon and remaining there for a short time.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: New Denver Ledger, 1895 11 07 (gives
name as A. Hugo) and 12 05.
NAME: Alder
Cottage Studio.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
424 Tenth Ave./1897.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This studio was managed by
T.H. Moore.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL97.
NAME: Alexander, J.M.L.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Masset.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1891.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: A senior factor with the Hudson's Bay Company, he moved to the Queen
Charlottes and took up cattle ranching. He was one of the first white settlers
and photographed the Masset church.
COLLECTIONS: CMS.
IDENTIFYING
MARKS:
REFERENCES: Blackman
(1981):62; Dalzell
(1968):78.
Allan, R.W. see
Allen, William Russell.
NAME: Allen, Edward P.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Northwest Coast, BC; Queen
Charlotte Islands.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Chicago, IL.
WORK INTERVAL:
1897.
STATUS: Institutional.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Allen was a
photographer with the Field Columbian Museum (now the Field Museum of Natural
History, Chicago), and accompanied George Amos Dorsey, ethnographer, on a
collecting expedition which began on May 12 and lasted four months. According
to the 1897 annual report of the museum, the pair visited Blackfoot, Kootenay,
Flathead, Haida, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Moki and Zuni tribes in Alberta,
Washington, British Columbia and the U.S. Southwest. Only one photograph in the
Northwest Coast research album for the 1897 expedition bears Allen's imprint.
COLLECTIONS: FMNH.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Edward P. Allen,
Photographer."
REFERENCES: Blackman (1981-82):102;
Huyda (1983);
Dorsey (1898):1-15; Letter,
Field Museum to Mattison, 1983 04 19.
NAME:
Allen, William Russell.
VARIANT: Allan, R.W.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Pilot Bay.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1894-1898.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: It is not known if this was the
same person as R. W. Allan, bookkeeper for Davis-Sayward Co., lumber
manufacturer, Pilot Bay, in 1894.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL94 (Allan, R.W.); Voters List, 1894; 1898.
NAME: American Stereoscopic Company.
WHERE ACTIVE: New York, NY.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 725-727
Broadway/1901?.
WORK INTERVAL: 1900s.
STATUS: Publisher.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Published stereograph card photographed by R.Y. Young
(copyright 1901), a staged scene with gamblers titled "Getting the drop on him
- Bar-room scene in the Klondike".
COLLECTIONS: Personal.
IDENTIFYING
MARKS: Caption information printed on front of reprint of stereograph by T.M.
Visual Industries Inc. (Set No. 807, Women's Lib & Alaska Gold Rush).
REFERENCES: see Identifying Marks.
NAME: Anderson, Sergeant _______________.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Whitehorse (YT).
WORK INTERVAL: 1903.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: AEPAA #B2063 (YWA photo no. 877).
IDENTIFYING
MARKS:
REFERENCES: YWA.
NAME: Anderson, Henry.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Windermere.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1887.
STATUS: Amateur?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He may have been a member of the North West Mounted
Police expeditionary force to Windermere in 1887 which established Fort Steele.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: BVIPA Visual
Records Photographer File, "Windermere".
NAME: Anderson, Robert W.
LIFE DATES: 1831
__ __-after 1897?
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Toronto; Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: 500 Cordova St. (White Swan
Hotel)/1887.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: same as business address.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1887 08 (Vancouver).
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Established in Toronto about 1862 as a portrait and
landscape photographer, Anderson called his studio the Pantechnetheca Gallery.
While visiting in Vancouver he stayed at the White Swan Hotel.
His ad
read:
“Views and groups taken to order, cheap and good, by R.W.
Anderson, photographer from Toronto, for a few days only....”
REFERENCES: WIL89 (White Swan Hotel); News-Advertiser, 1887 08 24/1/5;
Koltun (1978):258-59;
Koltun (1980):85.
NAME: Andrews, Clarence L.
LIFE DATES:
1862 __ __-1948 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: UAlaska (Fairbanks).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Grainger (Directory Alaska Postcards, 1992)
NAME: Andrews, Edmund.
VARIANT: Andrews & Evans.
LIFE DATES: 1872 __ __-1935? __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Norway.
PLACE OF DEATH: Juneau?, AK.
NAME: Evans,
____________.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Douglas, AK; many other Alaska towns except Nome.
WORK INTERVAL:
1897-1920s?.
STATUS: Commercial.
SUMMARY: According to Grainger
(1992), he lived in Alaska from his arrival in 1897 until his death.
Between about 1909 and 1914 he operated as Andrews & Evans. Andrews
was the official photographer for the major Alaskan shipping and rail
lines. His importance as a photographer of the Klondike gold rush is owed
to his photographing famous stampeders no doubt after the rush had ended.
His home and business in Douglas, including his negatives, were destroyed by
fire.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: photo postcards.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Grainger (Directory Alaska Postcards, 1992).
Andrews & Evans see
Andrews, Edmund.
NAME: Anonymous (HMS Acorn
photographer).
VARIANT: Acorn (HMS) photographer.
WHERE ACTIVE:
Vancouver.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889 12.
STATUS: Amateur (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Moored in Burrard Inlet on a snowy Christmas day, the
officers of HMS Acorn decided "the occasion a fitting one to obtain a
photograph of the ship."
REFERENCES: News-Advertiser, 1889 12 27/8.
NAME: Anonymous (Russian
sailor[s]).
VARIANT: Russian sailor[s].
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889 06.
STATUS: Amateur (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: The newspaper noted that some sailors from the Russian gunboat
Kreisser
”had a camera with them for this purpose [taking a photo].
Their request was complied with and they made an elegant photograph of the
harbor as well as the ship.”
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING
MARKS:
REFERENCES: News-Advertiser, 1889 06 05/8.
NAME: Arts and Crafts Association.
VARIANT: Vancouver Arts and Crafts Association.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
WORK INTERVAL: 1900+.
STATUS: Club.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Organized on April 6, 1900, the Arts and Crafts Association included amateur
and commercial photographers among its members who were among the elite of
Vancouver's arts community. The following photographers are known through
newspaper accounts and archival records of the association to have been either
members or exhibited with the association:
Bloomfield, C.E.;
Easthope, E.F.;
Edwards Bros.;
Eveleigh, S.M.;
Okamura, P.L.;
Taylor, Isabel C.;
Wadds, G.T.;
Wadds Bros.;
Willson, A.R.
COLLECTIONS: BVAA.
REFERENCES: BVAA Add.Mss. 142; News-Advertiser,
1900 07 12/8 (exhibition, O'Brien Hall); News-Advertiser, 1900 08 21/8
(meeting to organize exhibition); News-Advertiser, 1900 09 27/5
(exhibition, Theatre Royal); World, 1900 07 12/7 & 8 (exhibition,
O'Brien Hall).
NAME: Ashman, William
M.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: London, England, UK; San Francisco, CA; Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Government St., W. side/1867.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1867 02 to unknown date (Victoria).
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He arrived in Victoria by the Active from San
Francisco in February 1867 and operated Gentile's Photographic Gallery. The
newspaper ad noted prior experience at London and San Francisco.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Wm. M. Ashman, Photographer,
Government Street. Victoria" on verso of carte-de-visite view of a house; "W.
M. Ashman, Photographer, Next to the Theatre, Government Street, Victoria" on
verso of carte-de-visite portrait.
REFERENCES: Colonist, 1867 02
27/2 and 3; Mattison (1980
Winter):1-14.
NAME: Atkinson,
J.B.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Columbia St./1889.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1889.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL89.
NAME: Atwood, Frederic
N.
VARIANT: Atwood & Cantwood.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Seattle, WA; YT?.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS: Commercial.
SUMMARY:
Operated with G.G. Cantwell as
Atwood & Cantwood. Atwood later figured in preserving Yukon history
and edited The Alaska-Yukon Gold Book.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Atwood (1930); Grainger
(Directory Alaska Postcards, 1992).
Atwood
& Cantwood see Atwood,
Frederic N. and Cantwood, George
G.