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Names:
Born: John Jabez Edwin Mayall 
Born: John Jabez Edwin Meal 
Other: J.J.E. Mayall 
Other: Jabez Meal 
Other: John Edwin Mayall 
Other: John Jabez Mayall 
Pen: Professor Highschool 
Dates:  1813, 17 September - 1901, 6 March
Born:  Great Britain, Manchester
Active:  US / UK
 
  
British photographer and daguerreotypist. Particularly noted for 1851 photographs of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. 
  
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Business locations 
  
Philadelphia, PA, US 
Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK 
London, England, UK 
 
  
[4-5] [John Jabez Edwin Mayall] Early worker in dags, ambros; View recorded by Darrah, no details given. Also made SI formats. B. 10; D. 01.
*[John Edwin Mayall] 224 Regent St. 53-89. Views rare, in dag. & paper formats; also made CDVs. 
  
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association) 
  
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.
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J.E. Mayall
Self-portrait by John Jabez Edwin Mayall made in Philadelphia 
1842 (ca)
 
  
Family history 
  
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Internet biographies

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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist. 
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John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) 
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Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.49 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.] 
  
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.321-322 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on J.E. Mayall.] 
  
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.461-462 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Newhall, Beaumont 1982 The History of Photography - Fifth Edition (London: Secker & Warburg) [One or more photographs by J.E. Mayall are included in this classic history.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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