{"id":18788,"date":"2020-11-04T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T09:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=18788"},"modified":"2020-11-03T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:31:11","slug":"stanley-i-presume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/stanley-i-presume\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley, I presume?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18789\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stanley-Park-Vancouver-c.1901-1910-photo-glass-plate-by-Philip-Timms-Van-PL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18789\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18789\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stanley-Park-Vancouver-c.1901-1910-photo-glass-plate-by-Philip-Timms-Van-PL-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanley Park c 1910-1910 by Philip Timms<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. About three years ago I did a <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9829\">post<\/a> on Stanley park&#8217;s beautiful and massive old trees showing an ancient (today) automobile nestled in the trunk. Here you see another huge tree, this time shrouding a horse and rider!<\/p>\n<p>The glass plate negative was taken by photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Timms\">Philip Timms<\/a>. The Timms font is held by the <a href=\"https:\/\/thisvancouver.vpl.ca\/philip_timms_background_info\">Vancouver Public Library<\/a>, one of our long time members. Timms is also represented in the City of Vancouver Archives <a href=\"https:\/\/searcharchives.vancouver.ca\/philip-t-timms-photographs\">collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks to George Dunbar, a fellow PHSC member for sharing this beautiful and historic find from Canada&#8217;s great west coast city of Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>NB. The title of this post is a riff on the famous quote by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Morton_Stanley\">Henry Stanley<\/a> when he came upon <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Livingstone\">Dr Livingstone<\/a> deep in Africa in 1871 (<em>Dr Livingstone, I presume?<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. About three years ago I did a post on Stanley park&#8217;s beautiful and massive old trees showing an ancient (today) automobile nestled in the trunk. Here you see another huge tree, this time shrouding a horse and rider! The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/stanley-i-presume\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[563,3388,613,5,1498,185],"class_list":["post-18788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-glass-plate","tag-philip-timms","tag-photo","tag-photographer","tag-stanley-park","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18792,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788\/revisions\/18792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}