![Item #7 VANCOUVER - HASTINGS STREET. [Original Albumen Photograph, Titled:] Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C. John Harry Torkington DEVINE, fl. ca. 1880s.](https://imaginationonpaper.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7.png?auto=webp&v=1787117306)
VANCOUVER - HASTINGS STREET. [Original Albumen Photograph, Titled:] Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C.
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$1,250.00 CAD
Ca. 1897. Original albumen photograph ca. 19,5x23,5 cm (7 ½ x 9 ¼ in). Mounted on a period card stock album leaf, captioned and signed “Devine” in negative. Photo slightly faded, otherwise very good.
A view of the 600 block, West Hastings Street looking west from Granville Street. The buildings of Reed’s Pharmacy and the “Leland Hotel” are on the right, and the “Leland Hotel” annex (1887) is on the left; the sign of “Northern Pacific Railroad Co., General Freight and Ticket Office” is seen on the far left. The rails for streetcars run by the BC Electric Railway Company are in the centre.
“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).
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A view of the 600 block, West Hastings Street looking west from Granville Street. The buildings of Reed’s Pharmacy and the “Leland Hotel” are on the right, and the “Leland Hotel” annex (1887) is on the left; the sign of “Northern Pacific Railroad Co., General Freight and Ticket Office” is seen on the far left. The rails for streetcars run by the BC Electric Railway Company are in the centre.
“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).
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