Accession Number

2009.019.021

Description

One sepia-toned photograph of a young girl of approximately 2 years of age. She is standing with her left arm resting on a table. She is wearing a heavy coat and a large hat. She is standing on a skin rug. On the back is written 'Effie' and 'Olive'. The photograph depicts Joan Olive Bryden. The photographer's advertising name is printed on the bottom of the card: "Hall & Lowe Photographers 63 Government St. Victoria, B.C."

Narrative

This photograph depicts Joan Olive Bryden (1887-1959). 

History of Use

The original owners of this photograph were Elizabeth Hamilton Dunsmuir (Mrs. John Bryden), daughter of Robert and Joan Dunsmuir, and her husband John Cowper Bryden (1831-1915). It was first used in the Bryden's Wellington, B.C. house. In 1894, the photograph accompanied the family to their new Esquimalt house named Dalzellowlie. It was next inherited by their daughter, Joan Olive Bryden, and taken to Duntulm, the North Saanich, B.C. farm she shared with her husband, Alastair Douglas Macdonald and their three daughters. The photograph was then inherited by their daughter Elizabeth Mary Katherine Macdonald (1911-1979), and then by her son, Anthony Macdonald Raymond, who donated it to The Castle Society in 2009. 

Date

circa 1890

Dimensions

16.5 x 11.7 cm

Material

Paper, cardstock

Subject/Image

Joan Olive Bryden

Country of Origin

Canada