Horace Wrinch took this photograph of his wife Alice with a camera that took glass slides. She is the lady sitting on the steps wearing the grey dress and demure white collar. Since he disposed of this camera and moved up to a more modern camera in about 1902, we can date this photograph to between 1900 and 1902. Something about this photograph suggests to me that it was not taken at Hazelton or Kispiox. The clear slope of the land and the trees to my mind suggests the coast. Was it perhaps taken in Port Essington on the journey up to Hazelton in the autumn of 1900? Or perhaps that summer of 1901 when he and Alice were down on the coast helping Dr. Bolton deal with an epidemic there? And who were those people? (Photo: my own collection)
