professional photographer, was an itinerant photographer who came to Launceston in March 1857 with a travelling photographic van from which he produced ambrotype portraits. On 2 March 1858 he advertised in the Launceston Examiner that the van was for sale; it may have been purchased by Henry Frith . Then Clay possibly sailed to Victoria. According to James Flett, in July 1866 a photographer called A.B. Clay 'Had a shot at photography in Sutton and Clague’s old building on the corner of Criterion Lane’ at Dunolly, Victoria.
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- Date written:
- 1992
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- 2011
