negative, glass plate
Artwork
Accession Number
2016.004.001.003Description
Glass plate photographic negative. Image of a trestle. A group of men and women in Victorian dress are standing on the middle of the trestle. Logging debris is scattered on the hill leading down the the creek. Landscape orientation.Narrative
This remarkable photograph depicting Waugh’s Creek trestle on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway includes a group of seventeen people apparently out for a sightseeing excursion. Whether they got there via train is not evident. Waugh`s Creek is near Goldstream River, which was a popular sightseeing location even in the late nineteenth century, when people with leisure time – including Effie Dunsmuir – liked to travel there by bicycle. The Castle Society owns a different photograph of the Waugh`s Creek trestle as part of a larger framed collage (983.948), but it was not taken from this angle, nor are there this many people in itHistory of Use
unknownDate
circa 1890Dimensions
0.5 cm x 20 cm x 13 cmMaterial
GlassPhotograph Type
Gelatin silver processSubject/Image
Waugh’s Creek trestle on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo RailwayMedium
PhotographicSupport
GlassCountry of Origin
Canada