Hi, found this reference with a date error at the state library site; Photographer’s name and address printed on mount: Fraser, 30 Bridge Street. Ballarat. Mr. Leonard Fraser operated from 30 Bridge Street, Ballarat between 1914 and 1913. Mrs. C. Fraser operated at the same address from 1914 to1930. Ref.: *Australians behind the camera*, directory of early Australian photographers, 1841-1945 / Sandy Barrie, 2002. found at this location: http://sinpic.slv.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=163180&CNT=15 There seems to be some typo with the range of dates - 1914 and 1913 - I expect should have been written as 1891 and 1913 and at this address: http://www.geocities.com/vicphoto19c/willetts.html which is mainly about the well known? photographer George Willetts - we learn that the Frasers were Leonard Allan Fraser and Cora Beatrice Fraser nee Willetts - George Willetts daughter - Willetts had a studio at 30 Bridge st. Ballarat before the Frasers operated a studio from the same address...it appears that George Willetts gave up his Ballarat studio in 1891 - Cora and Leonard married in 1891 - so I imagine there's every chance that sometime after 1891 if not earlier, there was a Fraser studio in Ballarat. Leonard Allan Fraser died in 1913 in Ballarat - and it looks as though his wife Cora continued with the business for many years. Cora died in 1939. and this little piece of info from genanz archives: George Willett was in Sturt St from 1869- & 1888-1896 Bridge St 1888-1891 (Willett's Royal Photographic Temple of Light) The Temple of Light - a wonderful name for a studion or an Indiana jones movie. :) In short Fraser was indeed in Ballarat and certainly taking pictures in 1898. good luck Robert Norman Archibald wrote: > Dear Listers, > Would anyone on the list have a copy of the book, "The Mechanical Eye". > I have a marvellous photo of a wedding group that I am trying to ID. > According to whats written on the back of the photo, the wedding is suppose to have taken place in Ballarat around 1898. > The photo was taken by a professional photographer named "FRASER".. > If he features in "The Mechanical Eye", I have a chance of perhaps proving the date to be correct. > Norm. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >