John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Royal Engineers
Transferred from military duties at Bangalore to Photographic Department of Survey of India 2 August 1889.[1]
‘Corporal Vandyke…has done good work, and seems in every way fitted for the post; his acqauintanceship with steam machinery, acquired during an apprenticeship of several years with first-class lithographic printing firms in England, will be found very useful when the new steam machinery is set to work.’[2]
Took over as zincographer from J. Watson, on his retirement in January 1890.[3] Inventor of the Vandyke Process, a photo-lithographic process used mainly for map printing, and employed by the Survey of India and other colonial printing offices.[4]
Footnotes
- Λ Survey of India Annual Report for 1888-89, part 3, p. 86.
- Λ Survey of India Annual Report for 1888-89, appendix, p. lxv.
- Λ Survey of India Annual Report for 1889-90, p. 95.
- Λ Described in Bernard Jones, The Encyclopaedia of Early Photography (London, 1911), pp. 553-554.
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