Smith Album photographers

Victorian Edwardian photographer, biography, East Dulwich, Southend, Essex, London

SmithPhoto09R, Reverse of 1890s cabinet card by Biddle and Dowdall

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SmithPhoto09R, Reverse of 1890s cabinet card by Biddle and Dowdall

Charles George Biddle and Lewis F Dowdall operated a photographers business from 1 Ondine Road, Camberwell, London for a few years between 1892 and June 1901 (when it closed). Lewis (or Louis) was a lodger with Charles, his wife, two children and a servant and the business was run from the family house. Violet Dowdall age 15 is listed as photographers book-keeper at the Dowdall family house in Wandsworth. In 1891 Charles is listed as a purveyor of horse flesh and in 1911 he is a sawyer so the business was short-lived.

0.88 1890s 1896 1900s Biddle Biddle and Dowdall Britain British Dowdall East Dulwich England Great Britain King William Street London Ondine Street Registered E B Smith SmithPhoto09 SmithPhoto09R Smith_Collection TQ3375 UK Victorian balustrade black lettering cabinet card cabinet print classical curtain fire pot geoaccuracy very good history medium weight card natural card natural colour card negative number no border photo photograph plain edge rating3 reverse of studio photograph rounded corners social history standing lady surname surname Biddle surname Dowdall surname Smith