negative, glass plate
negative, glass plate

negative, glass plate

Artwork

Accession Number
2016.004.001.003
Description
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 it
History of Use
unknown
Date
circa 1890
Dimensions
0.5 cm x 20 cm x 13 cm
Material
Glass
Photograph Type
Gelatin silver process
Subject/Image
Waugh’s Creek trestle on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway
Medium
Photographic
Support
Glass
Country of Origin
Canada

Related Association
Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (depicts)
Related Objects

negative, glass plate, 2016.004.001.004 (is related to)