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Members of the Assiniboine
and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition, Encampment on the
Red River
1858,
by Humphrey Lloyd Hime
Hime was just 24 years old when he took this photograph of
the Canadian expedition's encampment on the banks of
the Red River. Born in Ireland, Hime came to Canada
in 1854 and, two years later, joined William Armstrong
and Daniel Manders Beere in their Toronto firm of "civil
engineers, draughtsmen and photographists." Hime
joined the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition
as a photographer and part-time surveyor. He was specially
requested to use the wet-plate collodion process to
produce negatives "for the full illustration of
all objects of interest susceptible of photographic
delineation...."
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For his services with the expedition, Hime was paid
£20 per month and in return he produced some
49 known images. His photographs were used to illustrate,
not only Henry Youle Hind's two-volume Narrative
of The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of
1857 and of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring
Expedition of 1858, published in London in 1860,
but also reports in the Illustrated London News
and Hind's official report to the Legislative Assembly
of Upper Canada. In addition, a portfolio of 30 original
photographs by Hime was published by J. Hogarth of
London - selling price of two guineas - to supplement
Hind's Narrative.
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