A. Magnus

Colonial professional photographer whose Sydney studio and equipment was destroyed when the building caught fire.
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professional photographer, was working from a studio at 621 George Street, Sydney, in 1867, then moved to a room above Goulston’s drapery shop in Pitt Street about August. The building caught fire on the night of 22-23 September and all Magnus’s photographic apparatus and materials were completely destroyed.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Callaway, A.>]