Post by grahamew on Dec 5, 2021 6:36:17 GMT -5
"In July 1881, James D. Hall arrived in Winnipeg and, after an abortive partnership with photographer William Johnston, in March 1882 he formed a partnership with 26-year-old Englishman Skene Lowe, who had formerly worked at the Toronto firm of Gagen & Fraser. Hall & Lowe advertised “Indian photos (taken from life), Xmas cards, views of Winnipeg” as well as images of horses, cattle, machinery, and buildings. But they did not confine themselves to taking studio portraits and landscapes around Winnipeg. In 1883:
Messrs. Hall & Lowe, photographers, have had a man along the line of the C.P.R. [Canadian Pacific Railway] east and west taking a series of photographic views. The scenes are not only interesting but novel, and being taken in winter present a pleasing contrast to views of this kind taken elsewhere. Her Majesty’s mail, taken in connection with a couple of dog trains that take it to the Lake Winnipeg country from Selkirk station, makes a nice view. A scene at the end of the track, where men are engaged unloading ties and rails for the C.P.R., with the boarding cars conveniently near, give a good idea of the work of railway construction. Another interesting view is one of the horses and mules of the C.P.R. contractors in their winter quarters at Moosejaw.
The next year, Hall boarded a west-bound train on an adventure to British Columbia where, after a stop in Victoria, he visited his brother who operated the Hudson’s Bay Company store at Fort Simpson. [3] From there, he took a steamer up the coast to Alaska where he was impressed by the beautiful scenery and aboriginal inhabitants, so much so that he planned going back the next year, and seeing country further inland.
British Columbia would ultimately prove a draw for both men. Lowe had established a branch of their operation in Victoria by June 1885 [4]. Their Winnipeg studio was slightly damaged in a fire caused by the explosion of a photographic lamp [5], which may have instigated its closure the next year. Hall opened a new studio at Vancouver in October 1887 [6], and the partnership dissolved in May 1892, when Hall became the sheriff of Vancouver. Hall and Lowe lived out the remainders of their lives in British Columbia.
www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/photographers/halllowe.shtml
See also: www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/74/halllowe.shtml
Fort Qu'appelle, Saskatchewan
Ox-Drawn Red River Carts and Sleighs
Metis and Red River cart; note the office of Hall & Lowe in the background
The middle section blown up. Could this be Hall or Lowe at the door?
Unidentified
Metis woman and child
Unidentified boy
Metis man
Unidentified
Woman and child
Unidentified
Unidentified
Unidentified
Unidentified
Pasqua, the Cree leader, standing in front of what appears to be a hide tipi. He was camping at Bell Farm at the time and there is a little background information on it here: new-discoveries-006b-chief-pasqua-sketch-an....pdf (276.28 KB)
Another image taken at Bell Farm. Labelled 'young woman,' I suspect this a boy, presumably from Pasqua's village
Surely a trip to the village must have resulted in more than these photos?
I thought I'd come across some Hall and Lowe earlier and, sure enough...
As you can see, however, they are two of the same sitters as above, in different poses.
I've found one more credited to Hall and Lowe:
Old Sioux woman.
However, this is surely a copy of an older photo of Azayamankawin, known as Old Bets, photographed many times about twenty years earlier after the fighting in Minnesota. For example:
There must be more Hall and Lowe photographs out there...
