John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Amateur, India
Drawing Master, Thomason Civil Engineering College, Roorkee 1871-85; Instructor in Photography 1873-78. Made a series of views of the Ganges Canal.
Teaching photography at the College from at least 1870.[1] Photography had been taught in the College from 1864, ‘chiefly for the purpose of instructing the natives in the art, to enable them to show the progress of public works.’[2]
Footnotes
- Λ See Medley, Memorandum... [P/V2171].
- Λ Report in the Allahabad Gazette, quoted in the Photographic News, 1864, p.59.
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