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Question 1 |
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Family
Was J K Home Crawford related to the Edinburgh photographer
John Crawford who had studios in
Edinburgh at:
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1860-61 |
60
Lothian Road |
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1864 |
14
Cockburn Street |
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1865-67 |
59 South Bridge |
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Question 2 |
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Was J K Home Crawford related to the Bombay Daguerreotype
photographer, W H Stanley Crawford (1822-1883), whose younger
brother (b.1833) was named Home?
This question has been asked by Ian Macdonnell, Melbourne,
Australia, g.g.grandson of W H Stanley Crawford.
Please
e-mail me if you can
help to answer the above questions, so that I can pass on the information. |
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Answer 2 |
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No evidence found. Thank
you to Ian MacDonnell for forwarding info from John Falconer to me.
This gives background to the work of W H Stanley Crawford, but not
establishing any link between him and the Edinburgh photographer, J K Home
Crawford.
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William Henry
Stanley Crawford |
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Professional Photographer
W H S Crawford:
- was a professional photographer for some time,
and advertised himself as such in the Bombay commercial directories,
even if he was pursuing his shipping interests at the same time.
- ran a daguerreotype and later a
photographic studio in Marine Street and other locations in Bombay
from 1854. and published a Treatise on Photography
(Bombay, 1853).
- was Instructor in Photography
at the Elphinstone Institute, Bombay 1855-7.
- was the author of "The Waxed Paper Process in Hot Climates".
- edited the Journal of the
Bombay Photographic Society. |
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Daguerreotype
In
1853 Crawford wrote to the Secretary of the Photographic Society
(London) regarding A new mode of conducting the Daguerreotype.
This involved placing a cup of heated mercury inside the camera
during exposure, and leaving it there for a period afterwards. This
increased the sensitivity of the plate, shortening exposure time and
improving the sharpness of detail.
The letter includes details of a camera design to incorporate this
procedure, ‘which for a travelling daguerreotypist is a great
improvement.’ Crawford’s account was contested by the famous London
photographer Claudet, who asserted that he had patented the same
idea in 1840, although subsequent experience had convinced him it
was worthless. |
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1856-1867
W H S Crawford
was:
1856:
Joint Secretary, Bombay Photographic Society,
1857-(60): Hon. Secretary, Bombay
Photographic Society,
1856-60: Photographer,
1856-(59): Manager, British Steam
Navigation Co
1860-67: Coffee Planter |
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John Falconer, The British
Library:
Author: "India:
Pioneering Photographers 1850-1900" |
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