Camera Workers: The British Columbia, Alaska & Yukon Photographic
Directory, 1858-1950 - S - Volume 1 (1858-1900)
© 1999-2007 By
David Mattison
Updated: 2005.12.16.
NAME: Salsbury, Frederick Thurston.
VARIANT:
Salisbury, F.T.
LIFE DATES: 1879? __ __-1953 06 01.
BIRTHPLACE:
Lachine?, PQ.
PLACE OF DEATH: Kelowna.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: 824 Hastings St./1897.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A son of William Ferriman Salsbury
(1847-1938), a prominent Vancouver figure, Frederick arrived in Vancouver in
1886 with his family from Lachine, Quebec. He was working as a clerk at the
Bank of British North America in 1897 and later moved to Dawson City, Yukon
Territory, where he worked for the same bank. He retired as manager of a branch
in North Vancouver. He was secretary of the
Vancouver Camera Club in
1897.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL97
News-Advertiser, 1897 02 18/1 Howay & Scholefield (1914):v. 4 1146
(W.F. Salsbury) Province, 1938 01 05 (W.F. Salsbury obit.)
Province, 1953 06 03/4 (obit.).
NAME: Sampson, John Wallace.
VARIANT:
Samson, John.
LIFE DATES: 1852 03 12-19__ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
Cornwall, England, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Victoria Cres./1887-1891 Commercial, W. side/1892-1893
64 Commercial/1894-1895.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Wallace St./1892-1894 65
Wallace St./1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1886-1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The son of a mine worker, James (d. 1893) and Mary
Sampson (d. 1911), John spent some time working in the mills and mines himself
before emigrating to United States. He decided to settle in British Columbia
and reached Nanaimo in 1875 where he went to work for the Vancouver Coal
Company. He remained with the V.C.C. until 1884, then went north to Douglas
Island and worked at diamond drilling. He returned to Nanaimo in 1886 and
purchased the photographic business of E.L. Boyden which he ran for six years.
By 1892 he was calling his business the
Diamond City Photo Gallery.
He was selling stationery and fancy goods out of the same store he had used as
his studio in 1897.
The John Sampson who died at age 67 (b. 1854?) in Nanaimo on December 13, 1921 (BVIPA death registration no. 1921-09-283061 microfilm reel no. B13119), and whose estate was probated in 1922 in the Nanaimo Supreme Court (BVIPA GR-2213, probate no. 639/1922, microfilm reel B09659) is likely the photographer.
COLLECTIONS: BNCM.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " Sampson,
Nanaimo, B.C. [monogram J/S] Diamond City Studio" on front of print mount.
" Sampson, Nanaimo, B.C." on front of print mount.
REFERENCES: MAL87
WIL89 HEN90 HEN91 WIL92 WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 HEN97 WIL97 HEN98 HEN99
WIL99 Voters List, 1894 Howay & Scholefield (1914):v.3 898-901 (with
portrait).
NAME:
Sankowski, H.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE/WHEN ACTIVE: Chilkoot Pass Trail/1898.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
Print surface or mount signed " H. Sankowski" .
REFERENCES: Letter, Michael
Cirelli, 1996 01 23.
NAME:
Sarvant, Henry Mason.
LIFE DATES: 1860 04 22-1940 03 09.
BIRTHPLACE: New York (State).
PLACE OF DEATH: Yakima, WA.
WHERE/WHEN
ACTIVE: 1892-1913 (Washington State)/1897 08-1901 11 (Klondike Gold
Rush).
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: A civil engineer and surveyor by trade, he spent four years
travelling and working at his profession in the Yukon Territory during the Klondike Gold Rush. He returned to Tacoma in 1900,
and was later mayor of Steilacoom.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: UWL (prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Cohen (1977) Letter, Michael Cirelli to D. Mattison, 1996
01 23 UWL, Guide to the Henry M. Sarvant Photograph Collection, ca. 1890s-1910 UWL, Henry
M. Sarvant Photographs.
NAME: Savannah,
Benjamin.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 28 Fort St./1897-1900.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: 139 Fort St./1897-1900
WORK INTERVAL: 1897-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: In 1899 he was listed as a
" student of photography" and subsequently as a photographer. He worked for
John Savannah.
REFERENCES: HEN97 HEN98 HEN99
WIL99 HEN00 Castle (1984).
NAME: Savannah, John.
LIFE DATES: 1868 06
25-1925 04 28.
BIRTHPLACE: San Francisco, CA.
PLACE OF DEATH:
Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort St.
(Five Sisters Block)/1889-1895? 28 Fort St. (Five Sisters Block)/1895?-1900.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort St./1891 Poodle Dog (rooming house?)/1892
139 Fort St./1897-1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889-1900+.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: His studio, Savannah's, was among the
most fashionable in Victoria. In his first year of business he called himself
" successor to O.C. Hastings" .
Primarily a portrait photographer, his work increased in importance after 1900.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA (glass negatives) BVICA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
" Savannah, Victoria, B.C." usually on front of print mount.
REFERENCES:
WIL89 HEN90 HEN91 WIL92 WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 HEN97 WIL97 HEN98 HEN99
WIL99 HEN00 News-Advertiser, 1892 12 09/1 (reported having taken a
photograph of Victoria's outer dock with ships loading and discharging cargo)
Colonist, 1894 11 08/_ (marriage) Colonist, 1978 07 16/14
(magazine section) Castle (1984) BVICA VF.
NAME: Savannah & Co.
WHERE ACTIVE:
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort St./1889-1890.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1889-1892?
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This
company was established by J. Savannah as " successors
to O.C. Hastings" .
COLLECTIONS:
BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL89 HEN90 Colonist,
1892 02 05/5 Castle (1984).
NAME: Savard, Alphonse.
LIFE DATES: 1864 10
27-1934 05 01.
BIRTHPLACE: Quebec City, PQ.
PLACE OF DEATH:
Vancouver.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 225 Carrall
St./1896-1899 4 Cordova St. E./1900+.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 49 Powell St.
(City Hotel)/1896.
WORK INTERVAL: 1896-1916.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to a report published in June 1896, Savard
trained under Mr. A.R. Ray of Quebec City and established the
Imperial Photo Studio in
Vancouver about February 1896. He was primarily or exclusively a portrait
photographer. The 4 Cordova St. E. studio in the Graveley-Spinks Block was
previously occupied by H.D. McKay and
J.M. White. Purposefully designed and
built by Vancouver architect R. Mackay Fripp for White, one corner of the
upper-floor studio by McKay and Savard's day was located above the Oyster Bay
Restaurant. During Savard's tenancy he had " A. Savard, Photographer" painted on
one wall. Savard was married on October 24, 1900 in Holy Rosary Cathedral,
Vancouver. After leaving photography Savard went to work at Britannia Mines.
COLLECTIONS: BVA BVAA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HOD96
HEN97 WIL97 HEN99 WIL99 HEN00 World, 1896 06 (Souvenir Edition)
Daily News-Advertiser, 1900 10 25/8 Alma Savard (daughter) Louis P.
Savard (son).
NAME:
Schellinger, Arthur K.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Dawson, Yukon Mayo?, Yukon.
WORK INTERVAL:
1909?-1930?.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: A mining engineer with the
Yukon Consolidated Gold Co., he arrived in Dawson in 1909 and worked there
until 1918 when he was transferred to Mayo. From 1920 to 1930 he worked for
Keno Hill Mines Ltd. and Treadwell Yukon Mining Co., also at Mayo. Mount
Schellinger was named after him in 1973.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: YWA
(Schellinger Collection).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Botton of print may be
captioned.
REFERENCES: Yukon Archives photo no. 5908 (PHOTOGRAPHER -
SCHELLINGER) Coutts (1980).
NAME: Schwatka, Frederick.
LIFE DATES: 1849
09 29-1892 11 02.
BIRTHPLACE: Galena, IL.
PLACE OF DEATH: Portland,
OR.
WHERE ACTIVE: Alaska Yukon.
WORK INTERVAL: 1883 05 22 (departure
from Portland, OR)-.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: U.S. Army 1st
Lieutenant charged with exploring Alaska and the Yukon, he descended the Yukon
River. He published newspaper and magazine accounts of his trip following his
return and also a book in 1885, Along Alaska's Great River. Photographs
accompanying Schwatka's publications on the 1883 expedition were taken,
according to Sherwood, by Charles A.
Homan. Schwatka described these photographs in a 1900 book on their
journey.
Two later expeditions to Alaska included a sublimely absurd
attempt to scale Mt. St. Elias in 1886 and a trip to Fort Selkirk from Juneau
via the Taku River and Teslin Lake in 1891. Schwatka Lake, Yukon, is named in
his honour. The camera Schwatka took on his 1886 Mt. St. Elias climb was
donated in 1955 to a museum of the University of Alaska (Fairbanks?).
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Schwatka (1900)
Wright (1976) Coutts (1980) Sherwood (1992) Webb (1993) Alaska
Weekly (Seattle, WA), 1995 11 11/2 (" Rare Camera Given to Alaska Museum" ).
Seattle Photo Co. see
Wilse & Kirke.
NAME: Selwood, Archibald.
LIFE DATES:
1881 __ __-1973 11 15.
BIRTHPLACE: Eng.
PLACE OF DEATH: Vancouver,
BC.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR: 546 Georgia St./1897-1907.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS:
Commercial (assistant?).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to one obituary,
he arrived in Vancouver in 1891. His listing in one directory said
" photographer at Freeman's [R.H.
Trueman ?]. There were, however, no corresponding listings for a Freeman in
1897. He left photography between 1898-1901 and returned to it after the turn
of the century when he worked for C.M. Scott. Selwood was a prominent rose
grower and first president of the Vancouver Rose Society at its founding in
1947. He also edited the society's publication Rosebud (1949-73).
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN97 WIL97 Sun,
1973 11 16/83 (obit.) 1973 11 17/55 (obit.) Province, 1973 11 22/19
(obit.).
NAME: Selwyn,
Alfred Richard Cecil.
LIFE DATES: 1824 07 28-1902 10 18.
BIRTHPLACE: Somerset, England, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: Vancouver.
WHERE
ACTIVE: Quesnel Fort St. James Fort St. John
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1875.
STATUS: Institutional (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: He was director of the Geological Survey of Canada from 1869 to 1895.
COLLECTIONS: OOA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: references to
his survey work in BC are in the Colonist of 1871-72 1874-77 Morgan
(1898) Hall (1967):25-27 Encyclopedia Canadiana (1970).
NAME: Sether,
____________.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS:
SUMMARY: Tappan Adney reproduces
photographs taken on Bonanza Creek and Eldorado Creek in the summer of 1897. An
Ole Sether, after whom Mount Sether was named in 1967, might be a descendant.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Adney
(1900) Coutts (1980).
NAME: Shakespeare, Noah.
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LIFE DATES: 1839 01
26-1921 05 13.
BIRTHPLACE: Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Langley St., corner of Yates/1865-1866 Government St., next
door to Theatre Photographic Gallery 1866-1875 Government St., W. side near
View/1867 1875-1878.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Fort St./1877.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1865-1878.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He
arrived in Victoria January 1863 on the Robert Lowe and began his
photographic career, so far as is known, with
G.R. Fardon in July 1865. He managed
Fardon's studio for a year and then went on to manage
Gentile's gallery. He is believed to
have leased this gallery to Uren &
Hoyt in May 1874 and to have cancelled the lease in October of that year.
In 1867 he was also employed by George
Robinson in the Victoria
Theatre Photographic Gallery, the operation of which he took over in 1875
from S.A. Spencer. He is presumed to have sold the
business to J.B. Uren in June 1878.
He was married in 1859 to Elizabeth Pearson, a native of New York State and a
daughter of Thomas Pearson. Shakespeare is today known outside of photographic
circles because of his philosophy and political career as an anti-Asiatic,
Member of Parliament, and as Victoria's postmaster and mayor.
COLLECTIONS:
BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " N. Shakespeare, Artist" in ink on front of
carte-de-visite (may not be contemporary with photo). " N. Shakespeare
Photographer Government St., Victoria, B.C." on verso of carte-de-visite.
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): BVIPA GR-1304, file 182/1921 (probate) MAL68 MAL69 MAL71 MAL74 HIB77 BVIPA Reference Room VF and Visual Records Photographer File
Kerr (1890)
Mattison (1980
Winter):9-13 Green (1992): 82-86.
NAME: Shand,
Miss E.M.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 624 Hastings St. W./1899.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: 1033 Robson St./1899.
WORK INTERVAL: 1899.
STATUS:
Studio (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked with
R.H. Trueman & Co.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL99.
NAME: Shart, ____________.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE/WHEN ACTIVE:
Skagway (White Pass) Trail/1897.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: UWL (album).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
Handwritten in pencil on print mount " Shart" .
REFERENCES: Letter, Michael
Cirelli, 1996 01 23.
NAME: Shields,
George Oliver.
LIFE DATES: 1846 __ __-1925 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: BC (Cascade Mountains).
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: He refers to his own photography in his book Cruisings in the
Cascades (1889). Shields exhibited at the First International Exposition of
Photographic Arts and Industries presented by the Photographic Dealers
Association of America between March 27 and April 3, 1915 at the New Grand
Central Palace, New York City.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Shields (1889)
GEH Database.
NAME: Sinclair, Daniel
Wycliffe.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Sandon.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1898-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN98 HEN99 HEN00.
NAME: Smith, Charles
Henry.
LIFE DATES: 18__ __ __-1947 07 11.
BIRTHPLACE: Manchester,
England, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: 610 Granville St./1899-1900.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR: 700 Homer St./1899-1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1899-1900+.
STATUS: Printer Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According
to his obituary he arrived in Canada in either 1889 or 1897, settling first on
the Prairies, then participating in the Klondike gold rush. He worked for
S.J. Thompson and then moved to
Victoria where he operated C.H. Smith & Co., an art and photo supply store.
He and J. Savannah were listed together in the 1910
directory. Smith retired about 1945.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL99 HEN00 HEN01 HEVI05 HEN10 Times?, 1947 07 12
(obit.) Colonist, 1947 07 13 (obit.).
NAME: Smith, Harlan Ingersoll.
LIFE DATES:
1872 02 17-1940 01 28.
BIRTHPLACE: East Saginaw, MI.
PLACE OF DEATH:
Ottawa, ON.
WHERE ACTIVE: Port Essington.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1897-1900+.
STATUS: Institutional (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: An ethnographer, Smith was engaged in work on the Jesup
North Pacific Expedition sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History
between 1897-1902. He also used a motion picture camera in his work in the
1920s and 1930s. He became archaeologist of the National Museum of Canada in
1911.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA (photo no. HP016645) OONMM.
IDENTIFYING
MARKS: " H. I. Smith" on print.
REFERENCES: Canadian Who's Who
(1936-37) Who Was Who in America (1943):v. 1 Jacknis (1984):2-60.
NAME: Smith, James A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 224 Thirteenth Ave. W./1897.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was primarily a portrait photographer.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL97 BVA (Ron
D'Altroy).
NAME:
Smith, M. (Miss).
VARIANT:
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 534
Cordova St./1899.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 812 Hastings St. E./1899.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1899.
STATUS: Unknown.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked for
the Edwards Bros.
REFERENCES:
WIL99.
NAME: Smith,
W.B.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Kaslo.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: A Ave./1899.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN98
HEN99 WIL99 HEN00.
NAME:
Smyth, H.S.St.G.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Windermere.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL97.
Smyth, S A. see
Smythe, Sidney Alfred.
NAME: Smythe, Sidney Alfred.
VARIANT:
Smyth, S.A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Vancouver Manitoba Calgary, AB Vernon Atlin.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Eleventh Ave. W., corner of Manitoba St. (Vancouver)/1896?-1899?
Atlin/1899-1900.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: same as business address
(Vancouver)/1896?-1899? Lake St. (Atlin)/1900.
WORK INTERVAL:
1896?-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to
Dempsey he and his brother A.J. Smythe settled in Minnedosa, Manitoba, about
1883 and by the following year had become itinerant photographers in Manitoba.
They moved to Calgary in 1885 and by 1887 S.A. Smythe was taking all of the
photos. He opened a studio in Banff in 1889 but returned to Calgary in the
early 1890s.
S.A. turned up in Vancouver in October 1896 where he was
displaying photos of places around Calgary. The newspaper noted that the
Illustrated London News of August 29, 1896 contains six views of Alberta
by Smythe, all of which were sent to the paper in the fall of 1890. The
following January the same paper reported receiving photos by Smythe of mining
and ranching scenes in BC and the Northwest.
According to the Vernon
Museum, he visited Vernon in June 1897 and had established himself as a
photographer in April 1900. In May 1899 he was in Atlin working as a sanitary
officer, but was also listed as a photographer in the 1900 voters list.
COLLECTIONS: ACG BVAA BVIPA OOA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: negatives may be
captioned and marked " S. A. Smythe, Vancouver, B.C."
REFERENCES: HEN99
WIL99 HEN00 Voters List (Cassiar), 1900 News-Advertiser, 1896 10
20/8 1897 01 03/8 Atlin Claim, 1899 05 13/4 Letter, Vernon Museum to
Mattison, 1981 11 06 Dempsey (1978).
NAME: Snell, I.B.
VARIANT: Snell, Ben
Snell, S.A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Rossland.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 121 Columbia Ave. (East Miller
Block)/1898-1899.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1899.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: On June 27, 1898 he wrote to
Vancouver City Council requesting permission to operate a portable studio until
such time as he could open a permanent studio in a building. The letter was
written in Vancouver. His request appears not to have been granted as he next
surfaces in Rossland. Following his brief photographic career in Rossland he
operated a restaurant there.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN98 HEN99 WIL99 HEN00.
NAME: Spencer, Mary (Miss).
LIFE
DATES: 18__ __ __-1938 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Ont.?.
PLACE OF DEATH:
Summerland?.
WHERE ACTIVE: Kamloops.
WORK INTERVAL: 1899-1900+.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She and her family arrived from
Colburne in 1898 and her studio was opened the following year. Her most
important series of photos are of the capture and trial of train robber Bill
Miner in 1906. She moved to West Summerland in 1909 and continued photography
there. She never married. The photographer in the film about Bill Miner, The
Grey Fox, is modelled on Mary Spencer.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA BKM.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " Miss M. Spencer Kamloops, B.C." on front of print mount.
REFERENCES: HEN00 Letter, Kamloops Museum-Archives to Mattison, 1981 11
03 Cobb (1978) Schmidt (1992).
NAME:
Spencer, Stephen Allen.
LIFE DATES: 1829? __ __-1911 08 15.
BIRTHPLACE: near London, CT.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE:
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Yates St./1858?-1860 Trounce, corner of
Government St./1860-1862? Broad St., corner of Yates St./1862-1863?
Government St., W. side near View St./1872-1875 Fort St., near Broad St.
(Hayward & Jenkinson Block, 2nd Floor), opposite Fell & Co./1875-1882.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: View St./1882-1885.
WORK INTERVAL: 1858?-1883.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was one of the pioneers
of 1858 who came to the Colony of Vancouver Island from San Francisco, lured by
the prospects, it is believed, of making money off the flood of miners pouring
in for the Fraser River gold rush. According to his obituary, he headed north
to look for gold after his arrival.
The first notice of his business was
in 1859. One mystery, now solved thanks to researcher Chris Hanna, was his
whereabouts between 1863 and 1871 when he showed up in Barkerville. In October
1863 he sailed with Robert Burnaby for the Queen Charlottes where he was to
" take views of the mines and the surrounding country." There is no evidence he
took any photos. S.A. Spencer appears to have gone on to Alaska. He is listed
in the fall 1870 census of Sitka, Alaska, which was published on December 20,
1870 and reprinted in 1981. Spencer's age is given as 36, his birthplace as
Connecticut, occupation a carpenter, and " Residence at the Club House, works at
the [US Army] Quartermaster Department" . He was not noticed in Victoria again
until 1872 when he purchased the
Victoria Theatre Photographic
Gallery from J.A. Craigg.
During his proprietorship of this gallery he made at least one trip to San
Francisco for new equipment and a retoucher named
Mr. Miller. This followed the
employment by N. Shakespeare of
R.A. Desmond, " late artist of
Spencer's Gallery."
Shakespeare himself leased the Theatre Photographic
Gallery from Spencer in 1875 when the latter moved to Fort St. That studio is
likely the one which also served as headquarters for
Spencer & Hastings. While this partnership
was listed in the 1885 and 1887 directories, Spencer was by the former date
residing in Alert Bay where he was managing the Spencer & [Thomas] Earle
salmon cannery. Hastings was supposed to have bought out Spencer about 1883.
Spencer later served as postmaster of Alert Bay.
The 1881 census showed
him aged 52 -- making him older than the 1870 Sitka census --, a Free Thinker,
American citizen and a bachelor, but he was survived by his wife Annie (nee
Hunt a Kwakiutl native and sister of George Hunt,
Franz Boas' chief informant) and five
sons upon his death.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
LINK
TO CAMERA WORKERS IMAGE GALLERY-R (Portrait of A.S. Rappertie [?] by S.A.
Spencer)
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " S. A.
Spencer, Fort St., Victoria, B.C." on verso of cartes-de-visite. " Spencer,
Artist" (red) on front and " S. A. Spencer, Victoria, B.C." (red) on verso of
carte-de-visite. " Spencer, Artist" on front and " S. A. Spencer, Photographer,
Victoria, B.C." on verso of carte-de-visite. " S. A. Spencer's Photographic
Gallery, Fort Street, Victoria, B.C." on verso of carte-de-visite. " S. A.
Spencer, Artist, Government St." on front of carte-de-visite. " S. A. Spencer,
Fort Street, Victoria, B.C." on verso of cabinet portrait.
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES):
BVIPA GR-1304, file 3789 (probate) MAL74 HIB77 WIL82 WIL85 MAL87 (no
listing, Victoria Alert Bay only from this directory to 1900) Victoria
Gazette, 1859 07 23/2 Colonist, 1860 08 02/2 1862 01 11/2 1862 01
15/3 1872 04 12/3 1874 10 16/3 1874 11 07/3 1875 05 13/3 1875 06 29/4
1875 07 07/3 1911 08 16 (obit.) (Victoria) Chronicle, 1863 10 30/3
Cariboo Sentinel, 1871 07 01/3 1881 Dominion Census, Yates St. Ward
(OOA reel C-13285) Kerr (1890) (Hastings biography) Fawcett (1912):239
DeArmond (1981):121 Jacknis (1984):2-60.
NAME: Spencer & Hastings.
VARIANT: Hastings & Spencer.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Fort St./1882-1889 01.
WORK INTERVAL: 1882-1889 01.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A portrait studio run by
S.A. Spencer &
O.C. Hastings. Hastings bought out
Spencer about 1883 and the latter moved away to Alert Bay. According to the
biography in Gosnell, Hastings sold his photographic gallery in January 1889.
The location was probably that taken over by J.
Savannah at 56 Fort St.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
" Spencer & Hastings, Portrait and Landscape Photographers Fort Street,
Victoria, B.C." (brown) on print mount.
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): WIL85 MAL87
Standard, 1883 06 09 Kerr
(1890) (Hastings biography) Gosnell (1906) (Hastings biography).
NAME: Spinks, W.H.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Eagle Pass
Landing.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1886 11.
STATUS: Unknown.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A credit on
a photo is the only evidence of his existence.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " by W. H. Spinks."
REFERENCES: BVIPA photo no.
HP011200.
NAME: Spring,
C[harles?].
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Yale, BC.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Victoria/1882.
WORK
INTERVAL: October 1882.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He took
a photograph of the " Grand Arch" in Yale for the visit of the Governor General
the Marquis of Lorne and a view of Yale Creek Falls.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Yale Inland Sentinel, 1882 10
19.
NAME: Stanfield,
A.E.
LIFE DATES: 1872? __ __-1899 09 22.
BIRTHPLACE: Iowa?.
PLACE OF DEATH: Stikine River.
WHERE ACTIVE: Cassiar District.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: circa 1897-1899.
STATUS: Commercial?
(visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He is believed to have accompanied Andrew
Jackson Stone, U.S. explorer, on an expedition into Cassiar District from
[Fort] Wrangel, Alaska. He drowned in a canoeing accident on the Stikine River.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA (portrait file under Stone, A. J.).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: BVIPA C/C30.41/C27, Register of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
Cassiar District, 1878-1933, p. 75 BVIPA Visual Records Division Photographer
File (Stone, A.J.).
NAME: Stanley, Alice, Lady.
VARIANT:
Montagu, Alice Maud Olivia.
LIFE DATES: 1862 __ __-1967 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Eng.?
PLACE OF DEATH: England, UK?.
WHERE ACTIVE:
Vancouver Victoria.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Eng.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The daughter of the 7th Duke
of Manchester, she married Edward George Villiers (b. 1865 04 04), an M.P. in
England in 1889. She accompanied her father-in-law Governor-General Lord
Stanley, the 16th Earl of Derby, on a visit to Vancouver and Victoria where he
dedicated the park that bears his name. One newspaper reported that
Lady Stanley, who has an amateur photographic outfit, yesterday
took views from the [railway] car door.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: News-Advertiser, 1889 10 31/8
World, 1889 11 06/4 Debrett's (1897):240-42.
NAME: Stanley, Edward Hall.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver
Nelson.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 2 Powell St., corner of Carrall
(Chamberlain Block)/1889-1890 8 Powell St., corner of Carrall (Chamberlain
Block)/1890-1893 Nelson/1893-1895.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 609 Powell
St./1890 8 Powell St./1891.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889-1895.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Foiled, apparently, in an attempt to
erect a studio on the roof of a building on Cordova St., E.H. and brothers
George and Gilbert M. put
their studio in the Chamberlain building and called themselves the
Stanley Bros.
All three moved to Nelson in
1892-1893 and continued to practice photography until about 1895. E.H. then
took up mining.
COLLECTIONS: see Stanley Bros.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Stanley Bros.
REFERENCES: WIL90 HEN91 WIL91 WIL92 WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 HEN97 HEN98
HEN00 Vancouver City Council Minutes, 1889 07 15 News-Advertiser, 1889
09 12/8 1889 09 20/8 1889 10 17/8 World, 1890 11 22/7.
NAME: Stanley, George.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Vancouver Nelson.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 2 Powell St. (Chamberlain
Block), corner Carrall St./1889-1890 8 Powell St. (Chamberlain Block), corner
Carrall/1890-1893 Nelson/1893-1895.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 609 Powell
St./1890.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889-1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was one of the brothers in the Stanley Bros. studio.
COLLECTIONS: see
Stanley Bros.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see
Stanley Bros.
REFERENCES: WIL90 WIL92 WIL93
WIL94 WIL95.
NAME:
Stanley, Gilbert M.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver Nelson.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 2
Powell St. (Chamberlain Block), corner of Carrall St./1889-1891.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: 8 Powell St./1891.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889-1891.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: One of the brothers in the
Stanley Bros. studio, he moved to Nelson and became
a newsdealer and tobacconist.
COLLECTIONS: see Stanley Bros.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see
Stanley Bros.
REFERENCES: HEN91 WIL91 WI94
WIL95 Voters List, 1894 (S. riding W. Kootenay District).
NAME: Stanley, William.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS:
SUMMARY: Partner in
Stanley & Worden.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
see Stanley & Worden.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: UWL.
NAME: Stanley & Worden.
WHERE ACTIVE:
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
Partnership of William Stanley and
Worden.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: UWL.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
NAME: Stanley Bros.
WHERE ACTIVE:
Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 2 Powell St. (Chamberlain Block), corner
of Carrall/1889-1890 8 Powell St. (Chamberlain Block), corner of
Carrall/1890-1893.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889-1893.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Established in September 1889 by E.H., George and
G.M. Stanley, the brothers moved to Nelson around
1893 and operated there as photographers.
COLLECTIONS: BVAA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: for newspaper references see
E.H. Stanley HEN90 WIL90 HEN91 WIL92.
NAME: Stark, William
McIntosh.
LIFE DATES: 1885 __ __-1942 03 11.
BIRTHPLACE: ON.
PLACE OF DEATH: Vancouver.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR: 1027 Robson St./1890s.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890s.
STATUS:
Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Although this Stark would have been eleven
at the time, a W.M. Stark is supposed to have photographed the arch erected by
the Chinese to honour the visit of Li Hung Chang in September 1896. William
McIntosh Stark, otherwise known as Billy, was a pioneer aviator and obtained
Canada's first pilot's license from the Aero Club of America in 1912. His
father, James Stark, ran a dry goods store called Glasgow House in Vancouver in
the 1890s.
COLLECTIONS: BVAA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
BVAA photo no. ARCHES P. 62 OUTDOORS P. 223 unnamed obituary notices, 1942 03
12 and 13.
NAME: Steele
& Co.
WHERE ACTIVE: Trail Fernie.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1896 1898-1900+.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: A Steele & Co. photographer visited Trail in 1896 and 1898. The
Fernie branch studio was owned by Frederick Steele of Calgary who had been
employed by Hall & Lowe in
Winnipeg between June 1886 and March 1887. It is not known who kept the Fernie
branch open.
COLLECTIONS: BTCA BVIPA SRA/SSA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
print surface usually numbered, captioned and marked " Steele & Co.,
Photos., Winnipeg" or " Steele & Co., Winnipeg" or " Steele & Co.,
Photo., Winnipeg & Calgary." Print mount on front may be marked " Steele
& Co. Winnipeg."
REFERENCES: Dempsey (1978) Letter, City of Trail
Archives to Mattison, 1981 12 08.
NAME:
Stereograph Publishers: Klondike Gold Rush, 1897-1900
NAME:
American Stereoscopic
Company.
NAME: B.W. Kilburn see
Kilburn, B.W.
NAME:
Griffith & Griffith.
NAME: Ingersoll View Co. see Ingersoll, T.W.
NAME: Keystone
View Company.
NAME: Underwood
View Co. (Underwood & Underwood).
NAME: Universal Photo Art Co.
see Graves, C.H.
NAME:
Whiting View Company .
NAME: Stewart, ---
(Miss).
VARIANT:
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort
St./1893.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1893.
STATUS:
Printer.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked for J.
Savannah.
REFERENCES: WIL93.
NAME: Stone, Andrew Jackson.
LIFE DATES:
1859 02 16-1918 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Linn County, Missouri.
PLACE OF DEATH: Bering Sea
(near Cape Nome, Alaska).
WHERE ACTIVE: Stikine River District Cassiar District.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR: Tacoma and Seattle, WA.
WORK INTERVAL: 1896-1905.
STATUS:
Amateur (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A zoologist and explorer who made his first
expedition in 1896 up the Stikine River out of [Fort] Wrangel,
Alaska, he took his own photographs, as shown by some of his publications and confirmed by a grandson. Stone's
first Stikine journey, the " Recreations Party" , was sponsored by Recreation Magazine, and he discovered
the Stone Sheep (also known as White Sheep or Dall Sheep) on this trip. Later expeditions were sponsored by the American
Museum of Natural History and the New York Zoological Society. The Bancroft
Library at the University of California, Berkeley, preserves a collection of
Stone's personal papers dating between 1896-1919, including diaries he kept
between 1896 and 1903.
Stone may also have employed A.E. Stanfield
as a photographer on a second or third expedition, but not the first. Stone might also have died in a canoeing or boating accident near Cape Nome, Alaska. A
Northwest Mounted Police record shows an A.J. Stone entering the Yukon at Chilkoot Summit from
Everett, WA, on August 4, 1898 via boat no. 14477.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA
private collection University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, MSS P-K 230 (textual records only).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: prints may have handwritten captions
or titles, but no signatures or other identifying marks.
REFERENCES: BVIPA Visual Records Division
Photographer File BVIPM " Information..." Smithers Interior News, 1973
06 27/4 (letter to editor from R. G. Schipf)
Pan for Gold Database e-mail,
Bill Stone to Mattison, 2003 05 05 (birth date, place of death, home address,
work interval, confirmation
that
A.J. Stone took his own photographs, and other biographical details).
NAME: Stormer, J.B.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Midway.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
1897-1898.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL97 HEN98.
NAME: Straiton, Thomas
Bell.
LIFE DATES: 1869 __ __-1955 01 __.
BIRTHPLACE: Port Union,
ON.
PLACE OF DEATH: Florida.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: 59 Cordova St./1892-1893 68 Cordova St. (new Sullivan
Block)/1893-1894.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: 37 Cordova St./1894.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1892-1894.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Primarily a portrait photographer, he also did landscape work. He moved into a
new studio in December 1893 which the News-Advertiser described in great
detail. His obituary reported he had lived in Sumas Prairie for the past 60
years. The community of Straiton atop Sumas Mountain was named after him. Mrs.
Mary E. Straiton (born 1870 01) was the first postmaster at Straiton (appointed
1904 02 01) following her death in 1939, T.B. Straiton was appointed Acting
Postmaster from 1939 06 24 to 1939 09 16.
COLLECTIONS: CVA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " Thos. B. Straiton Photo Vancouver, B.C." or " Straiton
[monogram] Vancouver, B.C." on front of print mount.
REFERENCES: WIL92
WIL93 Voters List, 1894 News-Advertiser, 1893 05 31/8 1893 12 03/8
1894 01 05/8 (ad) (Vancouver) People's Journal, 1893 03 25/8
Abbotsford News, 1955 01 26/1 (obit.) OOA ArchiviaNet Post Offices
Database.
NAME: Strand,
Walter.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Discovery City, BC Atlin, BC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Discovery
City/1900 Atlin/1901-1950.
WORK INTERVAL: 1900-1950.
STATUS:
Commercial.
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN04.
NAME: Straube, E.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
113 Carrall St./1888.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Hastings St. (Brunswick
Hotel)/1888.
WORK INTERVAL: 1888.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This person worked for
C.S. Bailey & Co.
REFERENCES: WIL88.
NAME: Sullivan, Mrs. May Kellogg.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE/WHEN ACTIVE: Dawson,
Yukon Nome, Anchorage and Seward, AK.
WORK INTERVAL: 1899-1900.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: She used a Kodak camera to illustrate two books
of her travels to Alaska. NWMP records list a Mrs. Sullivan as entering the
Yukon via Lake Bennett on August 17, 1899 via SS Nora.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Sullivan (1902)
Sullivan (1910) Pan for Gold
Database.
NAME: Sunbeam Photo Studio.
VARIANT:
Sunbeam Photo and Art Co. Ltd.
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 435 or 437 Columbia St. (Wintemute Block)/1891 12-1892
Columbia St.?, over James Ellard & Co., opposite London House/1892-1893.
WORK INTERVAL: 1891 12-1893.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: Opened by J.L. Browne in
December 1891, this enterprise also consisted of a circulating art library.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): WIL92 (and ad, p.
1200) WIL93 News-Advertiser, 1891 12 10/6 1891 12 17/6 1892 07 20/6
1892 07 27/6.
NAME:
Swanzy, Henry.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Selkirk Mountains.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: Eng.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1884 1888.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A
reverend and travelling companion of Reverend William Spotswood Green (the two
were cousins), they have been credited with undertaking the first
mountaineering expedition in Canada in 1888. According to a paper read by Green
in 1889, their photographic kit consisted of three cameras: two half-plate
models and a Stirn's patent detective camera. In conjunction with their
topographical observations they photographed views.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Green (1889 1890) Leslie (1980):5 Hart
(1983).