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Dr William Delano Walker
Dr Walker, an Australian, arrived in England in the late 1920s. He was a keen photographer earning a medal from the RPS for a series of images of 'The Life History of the Kangaroo'. He gave lectures…Continue
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bill purvis commented on Michael Wong's blog post Resource: Middle Eastern Photography"Hippolyte Arnoux operated a darkroom boat on the Suez Canal active from 1865. His boat had a sign 'Photographie du Canal'. The boat in the photograph in my collection has the sign 'Collection de Photographes'. Could this be his…"
bill purvis commented on Michael Wong's blog post Mystery camera....."I know - I street camera with fully self contained darkroom and enough room for an operator."
bill purvis commented on Michael Wong's blog post Mystery camera....."Is that a box of paper under the base? Could give some clues?"
bill purvis commented on Michael Pritchard's blog post Niepce role and images reappraised"This news resonates with a sense of clarity France was indeed the birthplace of the earliest photographic processes. It is fantastic that modern scientific forensics are able to provide indisputable evidence."
bill purvis commented on Marcel Safier's blog post Photographers of Great Britain 1840-1940 database"You guys are helping to put Australian photography on the world map thats got to be good.
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You may be interested to view the Captain Samuel Sweet CDV page 17 of my book (catalogue) if you dont…"
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Kirkby Hall Fleetham June 1936
Photograph by Dr William Delano Walker.A panorama or join-up of 2 frames. Image size 9.125" X 3".
bill purvis posted a discussionDr William Delano Walker
Dr Walker, an Australian, arrived in England in the late 1920s. He was a keen photographer earning a medal from the RPS for a series of images of 'The Life History of the Kangaroo'. He gave lectures in England illustrated with his own lantern slides on various Australian subjects. A Medical Officer in the RAF he died in an aircraft crash in 1938. If anyone chances upon any information regarding Dr Walker could you please pass information on to me. There is an extensive archive of his work in…See More
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