| RCS contains: |
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| Y305T |
Howell Wright South African Collection |
| Y305U |
South Africa, Bechuanaland and Basutoland circa 1902 |
| Y305V |
The Progress of H.R.H. Prince Alfred Ernest Albert through the Cape Colony, British Kaffraria... in the year 1860 |
| Y305W |
Anvil found on the site of the Van Rensburg massacre |
| Y3061A |
Views in Newfoundland, 1899-1911 |
| Y3061B |
Views in Newfoundland, circa 1880-1904 |
| Y3061E |
James Bell Newfoundland Collection |
| Y3062A |
Sports, Pastimes and Pursuits of Canada: Cariboo Hunting |
| Y3062B |
Canada, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Aden [Adan] and Galle |
| Y3062C |
Photographs of Canada, c.1897-1904 |
| Y3062D |
Photographs of Canada circa 1912 |
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Views in Newfoundland, circa 1880-1904
| Title |
Views in Newfoundland, circa 1880-1904 |
| Reference |
GBR/0115/Y3061B |
| Creator |
Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer; Unknown |
| Covering Dates |
circa 1880-circa 1904 (The earlier date assigned to the photographs is very approximate and relies on this quote in Holloway (1905, preface): 'The whole of the views shown are original and are selected from an immense number taken over a period of more than 20 years.') |
| Extent and Medium |
32 images in 1 file |
| Repository |
Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library |
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| Content and context |
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Robert E Holloway (1850-1904) was a photographer active in Newfoundland. According to O'Neill (1975, p. 210), Holloway was always an amateur photographer, being employed as Principal of the Methodist College in St. John's all the time he lived in Newfoundland (1872-1904). His daughter Elsie set up a photographic studio in Henry street, St. John's. Although Holloway's photographs were used on two Newfoundland stamps and a Canadian banknote, he does not appear to have managed a studio.
Contains loose prints, of various sizes but mainly measuring approximately 290 x 135 mm and 200 x 150 mm. All but numbers 31 and 32 are by Holloway, these two are by an unknown photographer.
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Access and Use
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Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Views in Newfoundland, circa 1880-1904, Y3061B |
| Further information |
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Biographical details in: O'Neill, Paul (1975), 'The oldest city: the story of Newfoundland, Erin, Ont.', Press Porcepic : [distributed by Books Canada Ltd. Y3061B/1, 12, 19-24 and 26 appear in Holloway, Robert E. (1905). 'Through Newfoundland with the camera', St John's : Dicks and Co. The text was completed after his death by his family and it is probable that the plates were reproduced from negatives by his daughter Elsie as they are stamped on the reverse 'The Holloway Studio'.
Indexed
PJ.
This file is available on microfiche: Canada, fiche numbers 11-12.
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| Index Terms |
| Canada |
| Newfoundland |
| Newfoundland |
| North and Central America |
| Holloway, Robert E (1850-1904) photographer |
| RCS/Y3061B contains: |
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No. 296. Iceberg. 180 x 118 mm. A view from seawards showing the huge iceberg (height 150 feet, length 600 feet) which remained stranded outside the harbour mouth of St. John's for three weeks.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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2
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No. 430. A group of Esquimaux [i.e. Innuits], Labrador. 205 x 153 mm. Showing a group of Innuits on the deck of a ship.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition, some overall fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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A jumping salmon, the Big Falls, Humber River. The fall is 12 ft.[i.e. feet] at this point. 166 x 120 mm. Showing a leaping salmon on the falls.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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4
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No. 590. A trouter's shack. 200 x 154 mm. Showing four fishermen posed in a forest clearing beside ther small log cabin.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition, apart from fading in top half of picture.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 831. A typical fishing skipper. 146 x 204 mm. A portrait of a white-bearded old fishing captain seated on the deck of a sailing vessel.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition apart from slight fading in top half of picture.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 418. Off Cape Harrison, Labrador. Fishing schooner. 200 x 153 mm. Showing a small sailing vessel among small ice floes, with land in the distance.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Poor condition, some fading and heavy-handed retouching.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 744. Hauling a cod-trap. 203 x 155 mm. Showing four fishermen in a rowing boat hauling in a net.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Poor condition, overall fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 23. Squidding, Burin. Taken at dawn. 283 x 235 mm. Showing a group of rowing boats congregated together before setting off on a squidding expedition.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition, slight fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 2041. Old time sealers forcing through the Narrows. 205 x 151 mm. Showing two steam vessels forcing their way through into the frozen harbour of St. John's.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition, some chemical staining.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 2142. A sealing crewing[sic] at work amongst the seals. 244 x 193 mm. A rather uninformative photograph showing an expanse of pack-ice with figures scattered here and there.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 2025. The 'Split' man's team. 202 x 152 mm. Showing two Newfoundland dogs hauling a sled loaded with chopped firewood.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition but some chemical staining.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 66. Labrador dogs. Cartwright, Labrador. 284 x 227 mm. A view showing four Eskimo dogs (not labradors!) at Cartwright, Sandwich Bay, Labrador.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition, slight fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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13
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Government House. 243 x 196 mm. A view looking between trees and across the front lawn towards Government House, St. John's: 'Government House is a great stone building, ugly but extremely comfortable, rather like an old-fashioned English country house.. We found it a delighful house to live in.. It was built, I believe, by the Royal Engineers and cost an enormous sum of money, but the huge walls, monstrously thick as they are, do not always serve to keep out the damp.'(Williams 1913). The house was built for Sir Thomas Cochrane (Governor of Newfoundland 1825-1834) and first occupied by him in 1828.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 204. Rigoulette, showing Lord Strathcona's house. 256 x 125 mm. A view looking down on the harbour and small settlement off Rigoulette (also spelt Rigolet). Lord Strathcona (1820-1914) the Canadian High Commissioner to England was based in Labrador with the Hudson's Bay Company from 1838-1868.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Poor condition, overall fading and yellowing.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 358. Saint Paul's Inlet, West Coast. 205 x 152 mm. A view looking along the inlet, with mountains on all sides and a small sailing boat in the foreground.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Poor condition, overall fading and yellowing.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 602. Drying fish, Venison Tickle, Labrador. 207 x 154 mm. A view looking across the small harbour at Venison Tickle with vessels at anchor. In the foreground are long rows of wooden stages, the 'flakes' on which the cod are laid to dry with men at work on the flakes nearer the water's edge.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight overall fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 471. Tilt Cove, Copper mine. 199 x 154 mm. Showing the small bay at Tilt Cove with a railway line running uphill to mine workings in the background.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition, some overall fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 677. The Boat Run, Pauch [i.e. Pouch] Cove. 204 x 151 mm. A view from the cove looking towards the steep wooden slipway at the bottom of which are crowded about 25 rowing boats.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 214. Battle Harbour, Labrador. 282 x 238 mm. A view from a hillside on the side of the bay looking across towards part of the town of Battle and showing Baine Johnson's Canneries and the Deep Sea Mission. With wooden fish flakes in the foreground.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition, some fading and yellowing.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 407. The entrance to Battle Hr., Labrador. 203 x 153 mm. Showing part of the town and harbour of Battle with a large iceberg in the foreground.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 454. A typical scene, Little Bay Islands. 203 x 153 mm. Showing part of the town and harbour of Battle with a large iceberg in the foreground.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight chemical staining.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 48. Little Bay Islands. 286 x 235 mm. A view looking out across Little Bay Islands with the township encircling the bay and with Notre Dame Bay in the distance.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 50. Bonne Bay. 292 x 224 mm. Showing neatly ordered houses and gardens at Bonne Bay with the harbour in the background and mountains in the distance.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 208. Herring Neck, Notre Dame Bay. 288 x 232 mm. A view from a hillside above the bay showing a small township and one of the arms of land in the bay, 'This bay gains its name from the fact that it is so cut up by arms as to resemble the bones in a herring's neck'. (Holloway 1905).
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition, some fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 71. Indian Harbour, Labrador. 285 x 238 mm. A view looking down on Indian Harbour showing a fishing fleet at anchor.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Poor condition, considerable fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 80. Placentia. 288 x 243 mm. A view looking across neat little houses and gardens towards the harbour in the distance. The photograph is taken from the quarries. Situated on the other side of the Avalon Peninsula to St. John's, Placentia was the first and most important of the French settlements in Newfoundland and was founded in 1622.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 74. Burin, South Coast. 275 x 228 mm. A view looking down on the town and harbour of Burin with fishing vessels at anchor in the bay. Burin is considered the best harbour in Newfoundland.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition, some fading.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 70. Moravian Mission Station, Nain, South Coast. 293 x 238 mm. Showing part of the town of Nain with a crude wooden shack in the foreground and the Mission Station beyond.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 212. The Geat Codroy Valley. 291 x 241 mm. A view looking across the fertile Codroy Valley with a river (presumably the Little Codroy River) meandering in the middleground.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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No. 18. Codroy Valley. 290 x 243 mm. A view near Morris in south-west Labrador showing the timber railway bridge over the Codroy River.
Creator: Holloway, Robert E, 1850-1904, photographer.
Fair condition, some fading and yellowing.. |
circa 1880-circa 1904 |
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Typical sealers weighing seals. 207 x 151 mm. Showing sealers standing on a wharf with seal carcasses in the foreground.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, several bends and some retouching.. |
circa 1900 |
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Landing seals at St John's capital Newfoundland where 1 ill-fated crew left and would [?never] return. 156 x 206 mm. Showing seal carcasses being landed by crane on to a wharf at St John's. The event referred to in the caption has not been identified and could refer to any one of numerous incidents.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, bends and some retouching.. |
circa 1900 |
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