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Beattie, John, (1820 - 1883), photographer
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Dates of existence
1820 - 1883
History
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.
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Bark, Cyrus Voss, (d.1913), photographer (d. 1913)
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associative
Type of relationship
Bark, Cyrus Voss, (d.1913), photographer is the business partner of Beattie, John, (1820 - 1883), photographer
Dates of relationship
c. 1860 - 1868
Description of relationship
Beattie and Bark ran a photographic business in the 1860s until 1868.