Gauvin & Gentzel
{{Short description|Canadian photographic studio}}
{{Infobox company
|name=Gauvin & Gentzel
|founded=1896
|defunct=
|founder=Adolphe E. Gentzel, George A. Gauvin
|industry=Photography, film
}}
Gauvin & Gentzel was a Canadian photography company established in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
History
The firm of Gauvin & Gentzel, specializing in photography, was formed in 1896 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.{{cite web|url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/agents/corporate_entities/1478|title=Gauvin and Gentzel (fl. 1912) (photographers)|website=archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk|access-date=2025-02-21|date=}} Adolphe E. Gentzel and George Alfred Gauvin, amateur photographers and founding members of the Halifax Camera Club, formed the partnership.{{cite web|url=https://findingaids.library.dal.ca/gauvin-gentzel|title=Authority Record: Gauvin & Gentzel|website=findingaids.library.dal.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=}} By 1897, their photographic studio, known as the Elite Studio, was located at 16 Spring Garden.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u3CFCgAAQBAJ|title=Halifax: The First 250 Years|access-date=2025-02-21|date=1999|isbn=978-0-88780-490-8 |last1=Fingard |first1=Judith |last2=Guildford |first2=Janet |last3=Sutherland |first3=David |publisher=Formac Publishing Company }}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lexEAQAAMAAJ&dq=Gauvin+%26+Gentzel&pg=PA97|title=Annual Report of the Several Departments of the Civic Government of Halifax, Nova Scotia for the Civic Year 1897-8|website=books.google.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=1898}}
In its first year, Gauvin & Gentzel photographed James Wilberforce Longley, Attorney General of Nova Scotia.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jlUyAQAAMAAJ|title=Munsey's Magazine for April to September, 1896|website=books.google.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=1896}} In 1901, they documented a detachment of New Brunswick recruits under Lieut. C. W. W. McLean for the South African Constabulary.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z6g_AQAAMAAJ|title=Navy & Army Illustrated, Volume 12|website=books.google.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=1901}}
Relocating to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1905, A.E. Gentzel maintained the business under the name "Gauvin Gentzel".{{cite web|url=https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/photographers/gauvin_ga.shtml|title=Manitoba Photographers: George Alfred Gauvin (1863-1933)|website=mhs.mb.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=}} The Halifax branch remained in operation for several decades under G.A. Gauvin.
The portrait studio took a photo of the Archbishop of Halifax, Edward Joseph McCarthy, on 2 April 1908.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICU-AQAAMAAJ|title=The Canada Gazette|website=books.google.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=1908 |author1=Canada }} Albert Audley Thompson's photo was taken by the Halifax studio in 1910.{{cite web|url=https://archives.novascotia.ca/charitable-irish-society/archives/?ID=93|title=Gauvin & Gentzel Nova Scotia Archives no. 47: A.A. Thompson|website=archives.novascotia.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=20 April 2020}} During the summer of 1912 in Winnipeg, Gauvin, Gentzel, & Co. photographed the officers of the Winnipeg Rotary Club.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Gauvin+%26+Gentzel&pg=PA56|title=The Rotarian, Vol. 2, No. 8|website=books.google.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=1912}} The Nova Scotia photographers attended the unveiling of the Halifax Memorial Tower on 14 August 1912.{{cite web|url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/992|title=Unveiling of the Halifax Memorial Tower, 1912|website=archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk|access-date=2025-02-21|date=1912}} Gauvin & Gentzel later employed Wallace R. MacAskill as a printer for their Elite Studio in 1916. He worked there until 1919 and photographed the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion.{{cite web|url=https://archives.novascotia.ca/macaskill/background/|title=Nova Scotia Archives: W.R. MacAskill|website=archives.novascotia.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=20 April 2020}} A photograph of Canadian diplomat Charles Jost Burchell was taken by the Gauvin & Gentzel firm in 1925.{{cite web|url=https://archives.novascotia.ca/charitable-irish-society/archives/?ID=91|title=Gauvin & Gentzel Nova Scotia Archives no. 41: C.J. Burchell|website=archives.novascotia.ca|access-date=2025-02-21|date=20 April 2020}}
Gallery
Portrait of Margaret Marshall Saunders.jpg|Portrait of Margaret Marshall Saunders
John Stewart. Photograph by Gauvin & Gentzel. Wellcome V0027222.jpg|Portrait of John Stewart
HalifaxSchoolForDeafByGauvinAndGentzelNSARM.png|Halifax School For Deaf
Campbell Road (later Barrington Street) looking north from Rector Street after the explosion (15315649424).jpg|Campbell Road (later Barrington Street) looking north from Rector Street after the explosion
Visit of Governor Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 8 November, 1918 - cropped.jpg|Visit of Governor Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts to Halifax, Nova Scotia
Collapsed buildings of Nova Scotia Car Works on Clifton Street near St. Albans Street, Halifax, with Bloomfield School in background at right (15912099016).jpg|Collapsed buildings of Nova Scotia Car Works on Clifton Street near St. Albans Street, Halifax, with Bloomfield School
External links
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