My Pressphotoman blog has recently published a series of posts about celebrated photographers, who learned and/or refined their craft with W. & D. Downey of South Shields, Newcastle on Tyne and London.
The featured photographers are Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn (1847-1908); John Edwards (1813-1898), Downey's principal photographer in the 1860s/70s; James Herriott (1846-1931); and Richard Emerson Ruddock (1863-1931).
Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn (1847-1908)
Richard Emerson Ruddock (1863-1931)
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