Beattie, John, (1820 - 1883), photographer

Identity area

Type of entity

Person

Authorized form of name

Beattie, John, (1820 - 1883), photographer

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

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.

Places

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Photographer

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Related entity

Bark, Cyrus Voss, (d.1913), photographer (d. 1913)

Identifier of related entity

Category of relationship

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.

Access points area

Subject access points

Place access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

Institution identifier

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Language(s)

Script(s)

Sources

Maintenance notes

  • Clipboard

  • Export

  • EAC

Related subjects

Related places