biography
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| lived:
| (1822–98)
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| biography:
| Topographical photographer, born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, C England, UK. He travelled extensively in Egypt and the Near East (1856–9), using the large 40 x 50 cm cameras and complicated wet-plate process of the period to produce the first photographic traveller's records to be seen in Britain. From 1864 he toured throughout Britain and established a nationwide service of photographs of local scenes as prints and postcards, a business which by the end of his life had extended into Europe and survived commercially until 1971. |
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