Name | Imperial Art Studio | |
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Gender | Unknown | |
Business Address/Year | 1892-1900 | Victoria, BC |
Address: 76 Yates St. Victoria, BC Canada | ||
Association | Eyres, Edmund James (Relationship: Owner) | |
Association | Bridges, D. (Relationship: Employee) | |
Person ID | I166 | Camera Workers | I, vol. 1, 1858-1900 |
Last Modified | 3 Nov 2021 |
Photos | E.J. Eyres' portrait of Rev. Solomon Cleaver, 1897. Eyres advertised this portrait, one of two, for sale on 3 Jun 1897, two days after Rev. Cleaver and his family had left Victoria to eventually settle in Toronto. Image courtesy of BC Archives, item B-04190. |
Documents | Imperial Art Studio article, Victoria Colonist, 19 Sep 1894, part 1. Article is in supplement titled British Pacific Review, equivalent to page 12. | |
Imperial Art Studio article, Victoria Colonist, 19 Sep 1894, part 2. Article is in supplement titled British Pacific Review, equivalent to page 12. | ||
Imperial Art Studio article, Victoria Colonist, Special Ed., 5 Apr 1896, p. 7. | ||
G.H. Larrigan and W. Gibson news item, Colonist, 3 Feb 1910, p. 6. They purchase the late E.J. Eyres' Imperial Art Studio. | ||
Imperial Art Studio invoice, 1893 With E.J. Eyres' signature. From Superintendent of Provincial Police, correspondence inward, BC Archives, GR-0066, box 1, file 2. | ||
E.J. Eyres ad, Victoria Colonist, 13 Jan 1894, p. 4. Like other photographers, he suffered from theft. | ||
E.J. Eyres news, Victoria Daily Times, 9 Aug 1893, p. 5. E.J. Eyres exhibited portraits under his Imperial Art Studio name at Victoria's Midsummer Exhibition which ran from 7 to 12 Aug 1893. | ||
E.J. Eyres and N. Shakespeare news, Victoria Daily Times, 22 Feb 1895, p. 5. Both Eyres and Shakespeare participated in a lecture and exhibition about the Auer gas light. | ||
E.J. Eyres ad, Victoria Daily Times, 3 Jun 1897, p. 1. Eyres hoped to capitalize on the popularity of Rev. Solomon Cleaver who had ministered for four years at the Metropolitan Methodist Church on Pandora Avenue before leaving the city on 1 Jun 1897 to settle eventually in Toronto (Colonist, 2 Jun 1897, p. 8). The portrait he advertised is BC Archives item B-04190. |
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