Accession Number

2012.007.001.087

Description

One black and white photograph of a woman wearing a striped dress and black hat, sitting on the chain railing of a ship.

Narrative

This circa 1901 photograph depicts Maude Allingham Shoobert (Mrs. Robert William Dunsmuir) on the stern deck of an as yet unidentified naval ship. There is a mounted naval gun to her left and a skylight in the foreground.

This photograph is mounted in a brown suede leather album that documents the life and times of the James and Laura Dunsmuir family from about 1895 onward. The album includes scenes at their house Burleith on Victoria's Gorge Waterway, various coastal locales north of Victoria, and parts of the United Kingdom.
 

History of Use

This photograph was taken in about 1905 and placed in an album created by the James and Laura Dunsmuir family at Burleith, their home on Victoria's Gorge Waterway. In 1906 it was probably taken by the family to Victoria's Government House where they lived while James served as British Columbia's eighth Lieutenant Governor. From there it was taken to the family's new house, Hatley Park, in 1910.

Sometime after Laura Miller Dunsmuir's death in 1937, the album became the property of Dola Frances Dunsmuir (also known as Mrs. Dola Cavendish) and was kept at her house Dolaura in Colwood, B.C. After her death, the album was owned by her sister Kathleen's daughter, Judith Humphreys (also known as Mrs. Judith Joy). Her daughter donated the album to Craigdarroch Castle in 2012.

Date

circa 1901

Dimensions

10.5 x 8.5 cm

Country of Origin

Canada