EPS
Meeting at 38 Castle Street
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The Meeting had been delayed until 8 June 1892 so that it could
be held in the new EPS Premises.
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The President, H Blanc said:
“30
years is a comparatively long life for a Society to boast of.”
“The
city has always been a nursery of medicine and literature and to
these may be added its societies devoted to advancements
of the arts and sciences. Curiosity
in photography was aroused.” H
Blanc spoke of Edinburgh's early history of photography: -
The early Daguerreotype workers - Howie, Orange, Georgiades,
Popowitz -
Mungo Pontin who, in 1839, made discoveries which were later to
lead to the carbon printing process. -
The early informal meetings of photographers. -
J Taylor, the first EPS Secretary -
J Valentine, Sen. of Dundee, one of the first two Member to be
elected on the night that EPS was constituted. -
Other professional photographers, Tunny, Moffat, Ross and Nelson
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