- Title:
- Photograph of Clifton Suspension Bridge showing kiosk
- Object name(s):
- Carte de visites
- Brief description:
- Reverse carries stamp and Royal crest: "Photographer to the Queen and H.R.H the Prince of Wales / John Beattie / Strathearn House / Clifton Bristol."
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Current reproduction location:
- http://archives.cliftonbridge.org.uk/carte-de-visites-of-clifton-suspension-bridge-showing-kiosk
- Number of objects:
- 1 albumen carte de visite
- Object name:
- Carte de visites
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/C/8
- Object production date:
- c. 1866 - 1875
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1866-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1875-12-31
- Object production person:
- Beattie, John, (1820 - 1883), photographer
- Person's biographical note:
- Born in Scotland, John Beattie was a travelling photographer and lecturer in phrenology and electricity who settled in Bristol in the 1850s. Throughout the 1860s until 1868 he ran a photographic business with Cyrus Voss Bark (d.1913). In the 1861 census he was recorded as an "artistic photographer" working at 25 The Triangle, Bristol. John Beattie paid a license to the Clifton Suspension Bridge Company to sell photographs and stationary from a wooden souvenirs kiosk located by the Clifton tower on the bridge from 1866 to 1875.
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-C-008.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text:
- http://archives.cliftonbridge.org.uk/carte-de-visites-of-clifton-suspension-bridge-showing-kiosk
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/e3c1e8ed-9035-3a59-a1ab-2dcc8eae74da
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/e3c1e8ed-9035-3a59-a1ab-2dcc8eae74da, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY
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