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[[File:201908835detail.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Detail of the [[Windsor Wharves]], showing a [[:Category:Photo Car|Palace Rail Road Photo Car]], early 1880s.]] | [[File:201908835detail.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Detail of the [[Windsor Wharves]], showing a [[:Category:Photo Car|Palace Rail Road Photo Car]], early 1880s.]] | ||
| − | These were specially fitted passenger car bodies with a mobile darkroom, photo studio with skylight, along with photographic supplies and quarters for the photographer. They emerged in the Western United States in the 1870s. Some were converted cabooses or passenger cars while others were custom made for photography, such as the Palace Rail Road Photograph Car Company. Several photographers in Nova Scotia used photographic cars beginning in the 1880s, notably photographer J.P. Tuck who travelled up and down the valley with his Palace RR Photo Car in the 1880s. Examples of his work appear from [[Annapolis Royal]], [[Bridgetown]], [[Middleton]] and [[Wolfville]] where he often took photos of graduates of Acadia University.<ref>Tom Sheppard, ''Historic Wolfville: Grand Pre and Countryside'', Nimbus (2003), p. 178.</ref> Lewis Rice of [[Truro]], a photographer who also had branch studios including [[Windsor]] and [[Wolfville]] bought Tuck's photo car in 1891<ref>''The Acadian'', Sept. 11, 1891, courtesy [[:Category:Chris Gertridge Collection]]<ref> and used it to do studio work in rural parts of Nova Scotia from about 1890 to 1907.<ref>[https://novamuse.ca/Detail/objects/289311 Colchester Historeum, Photograph Accession number: 2016.37.1, ''Nova Muse'']</ref> Another photographer with a photo car in the valley was E.J. Lumsden who advertised photography from his car in Bridgetown in 1898.<ref>[ | + | These were specially fitted passenger car bodies with a mobile darkroom, photo studio with skylight, along with photographic supplies and quarters for the photographer. They emerged in the Western United States in the 1870s. Some were converted cabooses or passenger cars while others were custom made for photography, such as the Palace Rail Road Photograph Car Company. Several photographers in Nova Scotia used photographic cars beginning in the 1880s, notably photographer J.P. Tuck who travelled up and down the valley with his Palace RR Photo Car in the 1880s. Examples of his work appear from [[Annapolis Royal]], [[Bridgetown]], [[Middleton]] and [[Wolfville]] where he often took photos of graduates of Acadia University.<ref>Tom Sheppard, ''Historic Wolfville: Grand Pre and Countryside'', Nimbus (2003), p. 178.</ref> Lewis Rice of [[Truro]], a photographer who also had branch studios including [[Windsor]] and [[Wolfville]] bought Tuck's photo car in 1891<ref>''The Acadian'', Sept. 11, 1891, courtesy [[:Category:Chris Gertridge Collection]]</ref> and used it to do studio work in rural parts of Nova Scotia from about 1890 to 1907.<ref>[https://novamuse.ca/Detail/objects/289311 Colchester Historeum, Photograph Accession number: 2016.37.1, ''Nova Muse'']</ref> Another photographer with a photo car in the valley was E.J. Lumsden who advertised photography from his car in Bridgetown in December 1898.<ref>[Bridgetown ''Weekly Monitor'', Dec. 21, 1898, courtesy [[:Category:Chris Gertridge Collection]]</ref> |
This category includes images of photographic cars and known photographs made on photographic cars along the Dominion Atlantic. | This category includes images of photographic cars and known photographs made on photographic cars along the Dominion Atlantic. | ||
Revision as of 08:28, 23 April 2023
Photographic Cars
These were specially fitted passenger car bodies with a mobile darkroom, photo studio with skylight, along with photographic supplies and quarters for the photographer. They emerged in the Western United States in the 1870s. Some were converted cabooses or passenger cars while others were custom made for photography, such as the Palace Rail Road Photograph Car Company. Several photographers in Nova Scotia used photographic cars beginning in the 1880s, notably photographer J.P. Tuck who travelled up and down the valley with his Palace RR Photo Car in the 1880s. Examples of his work appear from Annapolis Royal, Bridgetown, Middleton and Wolfville where he often took photos of graduates of Acadia University.[1] Lewis Rice of Truro, a photographer who also had branch studios including Windsor and Wolfville bought Tuck's photo car in 1891[2] and used it to do studio work in rural parts of Nova Scotia from about 1890 to 1907.[3] Another photographer with a photo car in the valley was E.J. Lumsden who advertised photography from his car in Bridgetown in December 1898.[4]
This category includes images of photographic cars and known photographs made on photographic cars along the Dominion Atlantic.
References
- ↑ Tom Sheppard, Historic Wolfville: Grand Pre and Countryside, Nimbus (2003), p. 178.
- ↑ The Acadian, Sept. 11, 1891, courtesy Category:Chris Gertridge Collection
- ↑ Colchester Historeum, Photograph Accession number: 2016.37.1, Nova Muse
- ↑ [Bridgetown Weekly Monitor, Dec. 21, 1898, courtesy Category:Chris Gertridge Collection
External Links
Palace Railroad Photograph Co images at the Wolfville Randall House Museum
Palace Railroad Photograph Co. images at the West Hants Historical Society
Media in category "Photo Car"
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201908835detail.JPG 1,099 × 699; 125 KB
Kalkman032A.jpg 1,987 × 1,296; 1.08 MB
Kalkman032B.jpg 2,048 × 1,306; 893 KB
MuchJoytoOurKing.jpg 1,100 × 653; 134 KB
The Acadian Sept 11 1891.jpg 476 × 904; 48 KB
WeddingLoco.jpg 1,559 × 2,539; 4.8 MB
