Perciful Claude Byron (September 21, 1878 – June 9, 1959) was an
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photographer at the
Byron Company
The Byron Company is a New York City photography studio in Manhattan 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 f ...
in
Manhattan
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.
Percy was "the premier maritime photographer of his generation".
Biography
His father,
Joseph Byron, was born in
England
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in 1847 and opened the Byron Company in Manhattan in 1892. Perciful Claude Byron was born on September 21, 1878, in England.
[ In 1935 he was the official photographer for the maiden voyage of the ]SS Normandie
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. Percy was born in 1878 in Nottingham, England
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.[ He founded the first photoengraving plant in Edmonton,Alberta, Canada (1906-16). He returned to his father's studio in 1917, Since 1917 he specialized in maritime photography while he lived on ]Staten Island
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.[ In 1942 he closed the family studio because of ]World War II
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. He then went to work for the Essex Art Engraving Company of Newark, New Jersey
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.
Publication
*
Archive
*22,000 photos at the Museum of the City of New York
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between 1890 and 1942.[
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References
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1878 births
1959 deaths
Photographers from Nottinghamshire
Artists from Nottingham
British emigrants to the United States