The Goderich Signal-Star, 1961-09-28, Page 9ti
G�derich; Photographer
Pioneer Iti . Prolession
(By W. E. Elliott in Stratford
Beacon -Herald)
On Civic . holiday,, 1807,
ued to spend the day in a neigh-
boring town, blit an appoint-
ment at home prevented it. Free
In -the .afternoon, he drove with
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than he realized at the time. summer resort, north of Gode- note ' certain circumstances.
he died, years rich. There, with his twp coin- Newspapers nowadays are pro-
Whenii~ , was said di , manyat "his' world later,, panions posing on wa huge rock fusely illustrated With a great
spired Canadian photography."the Lakenegative Huron's
marked the he -made variety llopictures,began but when
What happened to R. 11. Sal- R. R. Sallows his special
lows that Apt doy was, that commencement of a_ career as line of work the newspapers
landscape photographer. He published mostly single -column
he became seized of an idea, a gave the picture a title: cuts of people. For other • ic-
teeh "ae; ghly gale- "Aar ower th`e waters a sail tures they often -'hired proles -
able. He entered the almost I see! sional photographers; the age
neglected field of commercial What are the tidings it> 'of multiple cameranien on big
art. In the next thrde decades brings to me?" papers was just beginning.
• his photographs. of outdoor A copy was sent to a manu- When a "slsbt" story seemed to
scenes made him famous. As facturing firm .iii' Rochester, and
early as 1916, Printer and Pub- it was used in a catalogue. (Con-
lisher described -him as one sidering all the photography
"who has done mych to demon- now based on Rochester, that
strate the possibilities.of cam- was an interesting transaction.)
era art, and whose work is in
detiianci all over the world."
Sir Isaa& Newton is said to
have promulgated the law of
gravitation' after watching an
apple fall. R. R. Sallows' dis-
covery was `equally fortuitous.
Indeed, his initial study of
photography was an accident.
A native of Colborne Township,
he "struck Goderich in search
of a job," decided to sit for a
portrait, was offered and ac-
cepted tb&i 14b -of. canvassing, a>'
enlargements. In 1878 he ap-
prenticed himself to the owner
of the studio, and three years
later was numbered among. the home my regular customers
rural artists of Huron county. were paying me $6 per dozen.
He was one of many photograph- This was the first money I had
ers with no more than a local ever received for any commerc-
reputation when a new ,door ial work, and it certainly woke
opened in 1897. He had plan- me up. . The folloting year
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rd!so�� r t -realized
c 'tg ii ax lu er"'f - i . s . U t'oirit: Firm ;gioheereda artrera §art "should
fishing, ,boating and cam ing
scenes. The C.P.R. o.sent t n.
on long trips, farm publications
and government departments
used his pictures. Some of -them
pepped up theeimmigration
literature o;f the period. Sal -
lows pictures went tQ Britain,
t') .various European centres, to
Australia and India.
Rod and Gun, then published
in Woodstock, presented in De-
cember, 1812, . a number of Sal•
lows pictures. (In the advertis-
F oc sal sSliaf'it'usiuip er,&tOott
o,. of Oril'lia' wag Q erring n..
cylinder " car"'with `ole -ie
cranking" for $2,500.) A Shi-
lows photo of a snowshoe party
on Cache Lake showed the lad-
ies wearing skirts of a length
that must have raised readers'
doubts of their ability to go
anywhere on snowshoes.
-what tools did 'wor
Pudyard Kipling, answering this
question in his autobiography,
described pens, inkpots, paper-
weights and various gadgets
demand illustration, there ap through which inanimate objects
peared cuts of fires, accidents' his genius reached the public.
or crime shots like "X" marks R., R. Sallows carried cameras
the spot. Of art for art's sake using 5 x 7 and 6 x 8 plates.
picture was also used by there was little except in fine-
Thepaper editions such as the
the Buffalo, Express, Toronto Christmas Clobe--or-the--Bu•
Globe, the Inland Printer and Express. Such publications took
Sallows pictures eagerly.
What 'he actually sold was a
talent for recognizing (or occa-
sionally organizing) out-of-the-
other publications.
"During the next six years,"
Mr. Sallows wrote long after-
ward, ."I added gradually to my
collection of outdoor studies.
In 1903 I received a letter from ordinary scenes. He wrote: "The
a Philadelphia firm asking me popular approval with. which my
to send them a collection of work was received urged me to
photographs. I sent them 12 use all my efforts to place in
prints. Ten of these were ac- my productions a mark of dis-
,r,,,e,gt0d44,slth.e'rs were,return- tinctive cl ality,. I,..always strive
ed along with the glad -tidings --„to take persons unaware, in
a cheque for $50. Sixty dollars their natural moods, at their
a dozen! For the same work at common callings, or in famliiar
surroundings, which I find ir`.
parts natural and lifelike qual-
ities to all my studies."
He made scenes of rural life,
of Nature in her wildest as. well
as her loveliest moods; huntipg,
They _were heavy affairs, one a
Graphlex, which means that he
lei res i sed .a„ tripod in his
outdoor work. Press , photo-
graphers today, using narrow
film in compact rolls, may find
it hard to imagine slugging
heavy cameras and loaded plate -
holders into lumbering and
hunting camps in winter, and
getting the exposed plates safely
home. The pictures Mr. Sallows
sent out for publication were
hacked prints, toprevent curl-
ing. Hundreds of them are in
noss'ession of a daughter in
Go'ierich, Mrs. C. K. Saunders.
From 1916. Mr. Sallows owned
a car, which became a travelling
studio. ` He was driving to a
photographic assignment when
his . ear overturned in loose
gravel on Highway 21 south of,
Kintail. That was in 1937. lie'
Nothing brings a smile to a performer/6 face like a fist-
ful of mail. Tommy Common, Popular radio and tele-
vision .singer, has good reason to be happy, He gets more
than 1000 letters a week, mostly from girls who like his
looks and voioe. Tommy has his own radio show, The
Common Touch, Tuesday afternoons on the CBC Trans-
C;anada network: "
was 82. The injuries received'
proved fatal.
,The era of "cheesecake" pic-
tures in the press had not ar-
rived in' his time. The "dean
of Huron photographers" never
tried to develop that market:
On a far West tour for one of
the railways, he was confronted
with the opp,orlaitit'rtoy'"photo-
graph a Doukhobor nudist par-
ade. He did not neglect it, but
never offered the result for pub-
lication. .He did 'not live to see
similar pictures going t h e
rounds of Canadian newspapers
as a matter of routine.
Mr. Sallows never neglected,
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Much, less abandoned his port-
rait work, nor did he allow the
demands of his profession to
crowd out community and
church service. In the upstair
studio at the corner of Montreal
street, and the Square, he turn-
ed out first-class wqrk, and
when absent on distant assign-
ments always had someone
there to carry on. In making
'studio portraits he had a pleas-
annt and at the same time busi-
nesslike manner; he concentrat-
ed on the subject, the lighting
and background, to the virtual
exclusion of smalltalk. Gode-
rich residents- recall the chang-
ing group of photos which filled
a Show window near his studio
door. Closed now for years, the
window remains a reminder of
the artist whose work was so
long admired.
What he strove for, that "dis-
tinCtive quality" of which he
once wrote, he achieved, as
qualified critics agree. At the-
time
hetime of 'his death one news-
paper editorial stated: "His
landscape studies were photo-
graphic masterpieces." Said an-
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DUNGANNON, Sept. 26.• -Mr. f Mrs. Gordon Kidd and daugh-.
Wayne Brown o •> the RCAF at I ter Sheila, of Islington, vi;lited.
Wiutflpeg, was home " ►itlr his the former's mother, Mrs, .°` .
parents, Mr. and Mrs, Wilbur Ryan.
Brown, for the week -end. Mrs.. Robert Bere visited a
Mr. and Mrs. Irvine Eedy and few days last week. with her
family visited relatives at Lon- sister, Mrs. William 0. Hunter,
don on Sunday 'Mrs. Eedy's Luck ow on,pW . em and ->ch ldY
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e'd .biome i tht er,;lits ti ..,:.tail a w 4a ys, with '-a�don. tiltgherher parents,Mr. and Mrs. Hell
London. Mole.
Mrs, Winifred Wideombe, Mr. William ` Cranston, whp
Windsor, has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. Herb Finnigan. Slie was hospitalized at Winllam
accompanied _Mr. and Mrs. for a week, was able to return
Fin-
nigan to Toronto on Saturday home and we are glad to know
where they attended the wed- he is recovering satisfactorily.
'of -their nephew Dmig , Mr. and Mrs.- Palmer Kilpat-
Hefforcl. Also attending the k, Agincogrt;'Mr. `liidifrst' it'
'wedding from this district were T.Kilpatrick and • Karen, of
Miss Clara Sproul and Mrs. Ar- Wingham, were visitor `"on' the
thug Elliott. Mr. Hefford's week -end with their sister, Mrs.
mo-
ther was the former Lauretta Cecil Blake. .
McClure, of Dungannon. Dr. David Evans, Mrs. Evans,
The residence of Mrs. S. J. Merilyn, Paul and Peter, and
Kilpatrick has been sold to Mr. Mrs. Muriel Smyth, of Brant -
and Mrs. Mel Reid, of Bayfield, ford, visited at the home of
who will soon take occupancy. Mr. Brown Smyth.
Mr. Reid is employed at the United Church Rally- Day.-
�iii i itY Sel11t'a5'l Y6" T
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The •G4 derrt lit' i illi ,
Tht>ir day, September 211414 II?
June In
September?
Oh, Soine Ilovero -1141:- ..
bloom in the spring, ,tra,. la,
are doing it "AMY in Septem-
ber. As' proof, thebranch of
an apple tred yeas brought la
to the Signal -Star dace from
.t ,. 4 r'a ,
Ooeriett.the'ftantti
'were ‘-som -fully evoloped
apple blossoms. The weather
may now make some
predictions based on this dis-
covery,
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PERSONALS
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rVVr. and' Mrs. Albert Oke have
returned from a vacation having
alsoattended the races at the
"Little Brown Jug" at Delaware,
Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ureckeaa
ridge visited the latter part of
last week in Gananoque With
the latter's 'brother, Ross Groff,
Mrs.. Griff and" family. '
Mrs. Alice McLean .and Beth,
Bob Springett, all of London,
visited with Mrs. Wm. McLean,,
Salt£grd, on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moore
and Brian," of Straffordville,
visited last week -end with Mr.
and Mrs. Ray, Moore, of Ben -
miller.
not complete .strangers to the Sunday school observed ally
community, as Mr. Reid is a Day on Sunday morning. Mr.
nephew of the late 1Vlanson Reid, Frank Pentland, superintendent,
who lived. in. Fines, this diofstrict. pawned the service with Mr.
Mrs. DS. Toronto. Brian Howlett, Lucknow High
was a visitor for the week -end Stool principal giving a fine
with her brothers. Harold and address .6n "The Church is
Cecil Blake, Jim. Blake, of the There." Mr. K. K. Dawson, a
University of Toronto, was former superintendent, -led the
home also. service and Mr. Wilmer Erring -
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Tews ton and Miss Joanne Crozier
Erring -
ley, of - Long Beach. California gave Scripture.. readings. Mr.
are visiting thd' 'tatter's sisters, and Mrs. Carl Sievert sang the
Mrs. W. H. Stafford and Mrs. duet, "Watch and Pray, and
Dave M'cDiarmd, and others in a trio composed of Dianne Er -
the district. • rington, Larry Pentland and
Mr. and Mrs. Ormond Falb Robert Sherwood sang "Hope
and children, of Rocklyn. visited Always Sees a Star." The
on Sunday with the former's teachers and scholars, occupy -
mother, Mrs. J. Falls, at the ing the centre section of the
home of Mr. R. .T. Durnin: church, combined with the con -
Miss Helen Harper, - of St. gregation and the visitors to
Helens, visited one day last provide an exceptionally fine
tveek with Mrs. I. Henry. attendance.
The auction sale of household ' Next Sunday service will be
effects of Mrs. S. J. Kilpatrick in charge of Mr. J. Colin Fing-
was held Saturday. land, 'a lay minister from Wing -
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pentland ham, who has isupplied' on other
are beaming proudly these days occasions.
as they receive congratulations Orange -Lodge Service. -The
on the birth of their grandson. local Orange Lodge No. 324
horn to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd held the annual Orange service
Pierce (Elizabeth Pentland). of on Sunday night at St. Paul's
London, on Friday,. September Anglican Church.at 8 p.m. An
21st. anniversary service in a nearby
Born, September 2�,, at Gode locality was thought to have
rich hospital, to MrAdind Mrs. lessened the attendance consid-
T,loyd Hodges, a son, a little' erablv. The rector. Rev. Wil-
hrother,for Terry, Valerie, Deb fred Wright, based his addresF
bis, Marsha and Annette. Con on 1st Peter, 2:16, 17. He ad
gratulations! ` vised'his listeners to live as
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free men without .using free-:•
dom as a pretext for evil, but'
to live as servants of God; to
honor all men, fear God, love
the Brotherhood and honor the
Queen.
Woman's Association Meet-
ing.-Mrs.
eeting..Mrs. George Ribey was
hostess at her home for the
September meeting of the W.A:
Mrs. afford Crozier presided
and Mrs. W. Brown led in the
Devotional with the theme,-
"Whom
heme,"Whom do we serve?". Ten
dollars wasvoted as a donation
to the C.N.I'B. Mrs. E. Erring-
ton reported for the parsonage,
and Mrs. W. Brown reported for
the church kitchen which has
a new steam cabinet and work
table. Mrs. Otto Popp gave,_
the topic, "Giving God a
Chance." The October meeting
roll call 'will be answered with
a' verse containing-, the word
"Service." After , the closing
hymn and benediction, lunch
was served by the lunch host-
esses, Mrs. R. Stothers. Mrs.
Harvey Alton, Mrs. K. Dawson
and Mrs. M: Reid.
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