Accession Number

2007.004.057

Description

One black and white photograph of Arthur Selden Humpreys, about age 50, lighting a smoking pipe indoors. On the front of the photograph, in the bottom left corner, "Studio Hugo" and "Cheltenham" are written in pencil. On the back of the cardstock which the photograph is mounted to is written in pencil on the right side "P-3" and "walking to church with nesch (?) family Last Sun Sat next me". A 2 cm line is drawn vertically on the bottom right of the cardstock in pencil. In the center "2024/3" is written in pencil.

Narrative

Arthur Selden Humphreys was married to Kathleen Euphemia Dunsmuir.

History of Use

This photograph was used by the Dunsmuir family in Britain, at Hatley Park, and on the British Columbia mainland before it returned to Vancouver Island. It was donated to The Castle Society by a grandson of Kathleen Euphemia Dunsmuir in 2007. 

Date

circa 1930

Dimensions

17 x 12.5 cm
Dimensions listed are for the cardstock. Photograph dimensions are 12.2 cm x 10.6 cm.

Material

Paper, cardstock

Medium

Photographic

Support

Cardstock; Paper, Photographic paper

Inscription

Recto, bottom left of photograph: Studio Hugo; bottom right: Cheltenham
Verso, top right:  P-3; top right to center right:  walking to church with nesch[?] family Last Sun Sat next me; center:  2024/3

Country of Origin

England