W.R. MacAskill, Wentworth Valley, NS (1930)

Titled "Wentworth Valley" (1930)

Frame measures approximately 16.75 inches x 14.75 inches.

Wallace Robinson MacAskill (1887-1956), professional photographer, was born at St. Peters, Cape Breton County, N.S. He graduated from the Wade School of Photography in New York in 1907 and opened photographic studios in St. Peters and then Glace Bay before moving to Halifax in 1915. There, he worked for official military photographer W.G. MacLaughlan, and as a printer at Elite Studios from 1916 to 1919. Between 1920 and 1929 he was a photographer with Commercial Photo Service. In 1926, MacAskill married fellow commercial photographer Elva Abriel. In 1929, the Bluenose stamp based on his photograph was issued, and he opened a business under his own name on Barrington Street in Halifax. He became internationally known as a marine photographer and his photographs were used extensively for advertising by the Nova Scotia government.