![Item #2 VANCOUVER - CITY HALL. [Original Albumen Photograph, Titled:] City Hall & 1st Council, 1886. John Harry Torkington DEVINE, fl. ca. 1880s.](https://imaginationonpaper.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2.png?auto=webp&v=1787115809)
VANCOUVER - CITY HALL. [Original Albumen Photograph, Titled:] City Hall & 1st Council, 1886.
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$2,250.00 CAD
Ca. 1886. Original albumen photograph ca. 16x20,5 cm (6 ¼ x 8 in). Mounted on a period card stock album leaf, captioned and signed “Devine, Vancouver” in negative. Overall a very good photo.
“Photograph shows City Council members and officials standing in front of a tent with the sign "City Hall", after the fire of 1886. The men in the photograph are: (seated, left to right) C.M. Coldwell, E.P. Hamilton, J.R. Northcote, Mayor M.A. Maclean, L. A. Hamilton, P. Cordiner, City Clerk T.F. McGuigan; (standing, left to right) J. Griffith, R. Balfour, T. Dunn, City Solicitor J.J. Blake, J. Humphries, City Treasurer G.F. Baldwin, and City Coroner Dr. W.J. McGuigan. The empty chair on the left is for Councillor H. Hemlow, who was absent on business. The man standing on the wharf in the background is G.W. Gibson, founder of Gibson's Landing” (City of Vancouver Archives,
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“Photograph shows City Council members and officials standing in front of a tent with the sign "City Hall", after the fire of 1886. The men in the photograph are: (seated, left to right) C.M. Coldwell, E.P. Hamilton, J.R. Northcote, Mayor M.A. Maclean, L. A. Hamilton, P. Cordiner, City Clerk T.F. McGuigan; (standing, left to right) J. Griffith, R. Balfour, T. Dunn, City Solicitor J.J. Blake, J. Humphries, City Treasurer G.F. Baldwin, and City Coroner Dr. W.J. McGuigan. The empty chair on the left is for Councillor H. Hemlow, who was absent on business. The man standing on the wharf in the background is G.W. Gibson, founder of Gibson's Landing” (City of Vancouver Archives,
https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/mayor-council-and-city-officials-assembled-in-front-of-tent-2).
“According to one biography (1911) [Devine] started as a photographer in Brandon in 1884. By 1885 both J.A. Brock and H.T. Devine were competing in Brandon on Rosser Ave. The two became partners and headed to Vancouver in 1886. Brock seemed to be the senior partner and it was his name which was frequently mentioned in the Vancouver papers. The partnership was dissolved in Nov 1887 and by Jan. 1889 Devine had the gallery up for sale. Devine returned to photography in 1895; by 1897 he had permanently retired from that career. His granddaughter, Betty C. Keller, published two articles about her famous ancestor whose surviving photographs are among the earliest of and most memorable images of Vancouver. H.T. Devine is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver” (Camera Workers…; cameraworkers.davidmattison.com).. Item #2
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