| Dates: | 1831 - 1913, 4 April | | Born: | Scotland | | Died: | Canada, QC, Montreal | | Active: | Canada |
Scottish-born photographer who emigrated to Canada in 1855 and took up photography soon after. Through his professional career in Montreal he was unusual in taking largely outdoor photographs.
Stereographs project
Business locations
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
*[Alexander Henderson] "Portrait & Landscape Photographer", "Maker of stereoscopic views", 237 St. James St., then 10 Phillips Sq., 70s. Several hundred fine scy., city/country, excellent pictorialist; portraits; disasters, flood of 69. B. Scotland 31, to Canada 55; was wealthy; started photog. ÷57; 59 first North American member of the English Stereoscopic Exchange Club [amateurs]; turned professional 66/67, retired 90s, D. 13.
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the World (Non-USA), (National Stereoscopic Association) |
| Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others. |
| NOTE: You are probably here because you have a stereograph to identify. Please email good quality copies of the front and back to alan@luminous-lint.com so we can create reference collections for all. |
Preparing biographies
| | Premium content for those who want to understand photography |
References are available for subscribers.There is so much more to explore when you subscribe.
Subscriptions
| | Portraits
If you have a portrait of this photographer or know of the whereabouts of one we would be most grateful.
alan@luminous-lint.com |
Family history
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch.
alan@luminous-lint.com |
|
LuminousLint 
@LuminousLint