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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
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 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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