George Washington Wilson & James Valentine
An Album Containing 129 Photographs of Landscapes, Churches and Places of Interest
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About this artwork
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title:An Album Containing 129 Photographs of Landscapes, Churches and Places of Interest
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Albumen prints; collotypes
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measurements:Album: 33.00 x 27.50 x 3.80 cm
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credit line:Gift of Miss I. M. Robertson
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accession number:PGP 722
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George Washington Wilson
George Washington Wilson
A hugely successful businessman, George Washington Wilson had left home at twelve to be a carpenter and subsequently trained as a portrait painter before turning to photography in 1853. By the 1860s he owned printing works in Aberdeen that produced thousands of prints with views from all over...