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- c. 1866 - 1875 (Creation)
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1 albumen carte de visite
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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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Reverse carries stamp and Royal crest: "Photographer to the Queen and H.R.H the Prince of Wales / John Beattie / Strathearn House / Clifton Bristol."