John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Amateur, Burma
Firm of George Dawson and Co., merchants, agents, and timber merchants, Bassein, Moulmein and Rangoon. Put up for President of the about-to-be-formed Moulmein Photographic Society in Janury 1856 and credited with being ‘the first to introduce the art [of photography] into this place [Moulmein], and had a practical acquaintance with all its branches’.[1] No further information on the activities of the Moulmein Photographic Society (indeed, whether it was ever established) has so far come to light.
Footnotes
- Λ Report in Journal of the Photographic Society of Bombay, nos. XIII-XVII, Feb-June 1856, p. 49.
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