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HomeContents > People > Photographers > William Skeen

Dates:  1822, 9 January - 1872, 18 March
Active:  Ceylon
Gender:  Male
 
  
William Skeen started in Ceylon as the first officially appointed Government Printer 1849-1873. During this time, in 1860, he purchased the existing photographic studio of J. Parting in Colombo for his son, William Louis Henry Skeen.
 
[Take care not to confuse with his son: William Louis Henry Skeen]

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