Accession Number

2012.007.001.107

Description

Black and white photograph of two toddlers both dressed in white standing by furniture. One child has a soother hanging around its neck.

Narrative

The furnishings in this photograph suggests the children are on a boat deck. The child in the foreground is possibly James "Jimmy" Guy Payne Audain, born in 1903, son of Sarah Byrd Dunsmuir (Byrdie) and Guy Audain. The photograph might have been taken in or near India, where Jimmy's father served in the Indian Army. 

The 'V'-shaped stool on the right is a gout stool, used to relieve pressure in the legs and feet of those suffering with gout.

History of Use

This photograph was taken in about 1904 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 hear 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 1904

Dimensions

8.8 x 11.3 cm

Support

Paper, Photographic paper

Country of Origin

Canada