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CÚL OF THE ROCK

The number is at odds with the time zone of the general view;
the Grand Hotel was only opened in 1894. The 400 range in the
Royal Collection is from a decade or more earlier. What is even
odder is that virtually the same image was photographed for the
Cabinet series just moments before the Royal 480 photo. Check
the steamship out to sea in the image below. The Cabinet snap
is numbered 3293.W.L, which is also a number from a much
earlier sequence.

I believe both of these images were snapped on the same
occasion as the ‘McFarland’s Burnaby Stores’ photograph, which
Derek Paine dates to 1901. As I said, one would need to be
careful. The first image, which Derek dated to 1900, was most
probably photographed in 1887.

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