John Samuel Swire, c.1897
Collection
Identifier
Sw09-056
Copyright
© John Swire & Sons Ltd
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Sw09-056. From a dark blue cloth ‘Film Negative Album’,12 cm x 16 cm. This album (Sw09) was labelled ‘P2/VII’ on the back cover. This is a photograph of John Samuel Swire (1825-1898) and the photograph may well have been taken at Leighton House, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, shortly before his death. The photographer, George Warren Swire (son of John Samuel Swire), would have been a teenager, and this is one of his early photographic efforts.
Location
Estimated Date
1896 - 1898
Photographer
Material
Negative
Media
Black and white photograph
Repository
Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London
