John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Professional, India
10th Company, Royal Engineers. Harrold was in charge of the Royal Engineers photographic section (10th Company), in the Abyssinian Campaign of 1867-8, during which 15,200 photographic prints of plans and maps were made during the advance on Magdala. He also produced a series of landscapes and portraits during the campaign; employed as a photographer in the Surveyor-General’s Department of the Survey of India, Calcutta, from Mar 1873 until his retirement on 24.5.1898; he assisted James Waterhouse (qv) in the taking of a series of 100 photographs of the transit of Venus from Roorkee in 1874.
[Markham, A memoir of Indian surveys; General report on the operations of the Survey of India, 1873-98.]
[Abyssinian views in Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library; National Maritime Museum]
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