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Original stereo view photograph. Two similar images each measuring 10 X 8 CM (rounded at the top). Mounted on 10 X 17.5 CM on studio card (with rounded corners). Information about the photographer printed on sides (title at bottom of right photo). Some soiling and wear to photos with textural details. Card also shows some soiling, light wear to edges and is very subtly curled upwards at the long edges. very good 131 in Bingham's 'Stereoscopic Views of the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba'. In 1870, Manitoba entered Confederation and in 1872, the former Hudson? Bay Company house at Upper Fort Garry was officially leased to the Dominion for use as the original home of the province? first lieutenant-governor. However, the decline of the upper fort and the HBC? plans to dismantle the complex in the early 1880s prompted the federal government to begin work on a new government house.The new lieutenant-governor? residence was built on a piece of land which had been appropriated in 1872 as a 20-hectare Dominion and provincial government reserve. In 1874, this tract of land was divided down its length and the eastern half, which extended on both sides of Broadway, was designated as a provincial reserve. Government House was completed in 1883 in a simplified version of the Second Empire style. Frederick F. Bingham arrived as a photographer in Winnipeg in 1881. Coming from Minnesota he was probably attracted, as so many others were, by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the opportunities it's arrival provided. He took numerous shots of Winnipeg durings its boom years in 1881 and 1882, including the series ?tereoscopic Views of the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba.?His 1882 series ?tereoscopie Views of West Lynne and Vicinity?featuring streets and natural scenes around West Lynne, Manitoba, now a ghost town near the Canada-US border. Bingham? relationship with the Canadian Pacific Railway remains unclear. Although many of his photographs state that he was an ?fficial Photographer to the CPR? there are no records in the company? archives that they employed Bingham formally, nor was there a formal endorsement of his work implied by his ?fficial?status. However, the railway did purchase copies of his photos on several occasions and they were sometimes used for the railways promotion. Through early 1886, Bingham appeared to have made north-western Ontario his home base, travelling from Port Arthur to take photographs along the CPR line at such stops as Chapleau, Schreiber, and White River. By 1890, however, Bingham was back in the USA, being a landscape photographer in Superior, Wisconsin then, three years later, at a studio in Omaha, Nebraska. Seller Inventory # 136714
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