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The British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon Photographic Directory, 1858-1950

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Muybridge, Eadweard James

Muybridge, Eadweard James[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Male 1830 - 1904  (74 years)


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  • Name Muybridge, Eadweard James
    • VARIANT NAME: Helios.
    Birth 9 Apr 1830  Kingston-on-Thames, Eng., UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    Business Address/Year 1868  San Francisco, CA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Cosmopolitan Gallery of Photographic Art
    415 Montgomery St.
    San Francisco, CA
    USA 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) Jul-Aug 1868  Nanaimo, BC; Vancouver Island; Alaska Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 8 May 1904  Kingston-on-Thames, Eng., UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Association Bradley and Rulofson (Relationship: Photographer)
    Person ID I843  Camera Workers | M, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 22 Jan 2025

  • Photos
    E.J. Muybridge imprint, ca. 1868    		E.J. Muybridge imprint, ca. 1868
    The front of this stereograph card depicts Nanaimo.
    E.J. Muybridge imprint, ca. 1868    		E.J. Muybridge imprint, ca. 1868
    The front of this stereograph card depicts HMS Zealous and Scout anchored in Esquimalt Harbour. The Zealous was the ship on which the private photographer and sketch artist C.H. Bodurtha was working in 1868. The Scout was the vessel on which Frederick Dally circumnavigated Vancouver Island in 1866.
    '511--Steamers Zealous and Scout in Esquimault Harbor.'     		"511--Steamers Zealous and Scout in Esquimault Harbor."
    Part of the Vancouver Island stereograph series photographed by E.J. Muybridge and published by Bradley and Rulofson, San Francisco, ca. 1868. HMS Zealous was the ship on which the private photographer and sketch artist C.H. Bodurtha was working in 1868. HMS Scout was the vessel on which Frederick Dally circumnavigated Vancouver Island in 1866.
    E.J. Muybridge portrait, undated.    		E.J. Muybridge portrait, undated.
    By an unidentified photographer. Courtesy of GoodReads.com
    E. Muybridge stereo, 1868.    		E. Muybridge stereo, 1868.
    This photograph depicts Nanaimo and was published by Bradley and Rulofson.

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Institutional (visit).
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Muybridge was an accomplished landscape photographer by the time he was appointed in 1868 to accompany General William Halleck to take views of military ports and harbours of Alaska. Buckland reproduces a view captioned by the author "probably Warm Spring Indian Camp, c 1873" which is in fact a Tlingit Indian group of Fort Tongass, Alaska (see Pierce). Scharf contains a photograph captioned "Group of Indians, Nanaimo District of Vancouver Island." Views from this trip were sold as 8 x 10 in. prints and stereograph cards.
    • IDENTIFYING MARKS: print surface may be marked "Helios." Stereo mount bears imprint on left side "Views of the Pacific Coast, Helios, Cosmopolitan Gallery of Photographic Art, 415 Montgomery St. San Francisco"; 1868 copyright notice on right side caption on bottom left of mount e.g. "Alaska Ter.--Sitka."

  • Sources 
    1. [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA.

    2. [S901] COLLECTION: BANC.
      Lone Mountain College Collection of Stereographs by Eadweard Muybridge, 1867-1880. Finding aid URL; includes links to digital facsimiles of his photographs (accessed 10 Aug 2024): https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6t1nb6w7/entire_text/

    3. [S360] National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1926), (New York: James T. White & Co., 1926), vol. 19, 152.

    4. [S226] Buckland, Gail, Buckland (1974), (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1974), 39 and 54.

    5. [S359] Weston J. Naef, Naef (1975), (New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), 173.

    6. [S436] Aaron Scharf, Scharf (1976), (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976), 151.

    7. [S256] William C. Darrah, Darrah (1977), (Gettysburg, Penn.: W.C. Darrah, 1977), 100.

    8. [S399] Richard A. Pierce, Pierce (1977), (Alaska Journal 7, no. 4 (Autumn 1977):202-10), 202-210.

    9. [S1228] Marc Shaffer, Shaffer (2019), (Stereo World 44, no. 5 (March/April 2019): 8-15).