Denis Downey b. c.1842

  • Artist (Photographer)
A photographer based in Carlton, Victoria. He died of arsenic poisoning, just one of the hazardous chemicals used in photography at the time.
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professional photographer, was a resident of Carlton, Victoria. The Roman Catholic register of the Melbourne General Cemetery records that Downey, a photographer, died from arsenical colic, aged twenty-seven, and was buried on 20 March 1870. Arsenic was just one of the hazardous chemicals then used in photography.

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1992
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2011

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