Title and statement of responsibility area
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Photographs
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- graphic material
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- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the series.
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Dates of creation area
Date(s)
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1866-[ca. 1879] (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
10 albums and one set of mounted prints.
Publisher's series area
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Archival description area
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Scope and content
The series consists of photograph albums and loose photographs created primarily by Frederick Dally. File MS-3100.11, Accession 198611-001, also contains photographs by Richard Maynard and possibly Oregon Hastings. All prints, whether loose or in albums, are black and white, created between 1866 and ca 1879.
The photographs contain Victoria streetscapes, Vancouver Island landscapes, the San Juan Island British Camp, and visiting Royal Navy ships and crews. As an amateur ethnographer, Dally photographed indigenous peoples in his studio, in coastal villages and through the Interior.
Photographs also include shots of the British Columbia interior including the Cariboo Wagon Road, isolated road houses and the gold rush town of Barkerville with portraits and views of miners posed at their placer gold claims and mining camps amid deforested hills.
Since photographers often sold their original glass plate negatives to other photographers when they went out of business, some of these original views may have been taken by other photographers, e.g. Carlo Gentile, but for the most part the images were shot and printed by Dally.
Notes area
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Location of originals
Availability of other formats
The original negatives were glass plates, some of which survive as part of the Maynard fonds, since the Maynards may have acquired some of Dally's plates after he closed his photographic business. BC Archives also created preservation glass plate negatives.
An HP ("historical photograph") number is included in the general note section of each item level description. Use this number to search for other versions of the same photograph that may be kept in other albums within the Dally fonds or within other BC Archives collections.
Albums have been digitized and high resolution images are available to view on the A/V Kiosk in the reference room.
Restrictions on access
For conservation reasons, no access is provided to either the album or any of the original glass plates from which these views were produced.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
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Accruals
General note
Accession number(s): 198508-009; 198509-001; 198509-002; 198509-003; 198509-004; 198509-005; 198508-016; 198506-001; 198509-006; 198510-001; 198611-001; 198905-005, 2016.36
General note
Album previous described as Dally album 8 (MS-3100.8) has been redescribed as MS-3324 and removed from the Dally fonds.
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Access points
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Place access points
Name access points
- Dally, Frederick (Subject)
- Maynard, Richard (Subject)
- Hastings, Oregon Columbus (Subject)