The Byron Company is a

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photography studio in

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that was founded in 1892. It is "one of New York's pre-eminent commercial photography studios" that "documented the essence of New York City life". Percy Byron, the son of the founder, was "the premier maritime photography of his generation".

History

Joseph Byron was born in London in 1847 to a commercial photographer, and he opened the Byron Company in Manhattan in 1892. He took on as his partner his son,

Percy Claude Byron Perciful Claude Byron (September 21, 1878 – June 9, 1959) was an English photographer at the Byron Company in Manhattan. Percy was "the premier maritime photographer of his generation". Biography His father, Joseph Byron, was born in England i ...

. Since 1917 Percy specialized in maritime photography and lived on

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. Byron died in 1923, and Percy died in 1959. In 1942 Percy closed the family studio because of

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. He then went to work for the Essex Art Engraving Company of

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taken between 1890 and 1942.

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