Dear Jo Brown, I cannot help with J. Richmond, but have some knowledge of Robert Wilson. My grandmother Agnes Gibson, who married my grandfather Samuel Phillips Anderson in 1878, was before her marriage employed by Robert Wilson in the capacity of colourist, i.e. she added colour by hand, where required, to the black-and-white portrait cartes-de-visite produced in his studio; and I still have a collection of well over 100 of his cartes, comprising Anderson family portraits and those of other Dumfries townspeople. None of these are dated, unfortunately; but evidence from the style of the cards and costume suggests that he operated from the late 1860s possibly to the 1890s. You may get some help from the following website: http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/ . Kind regards, Ian Anderson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Mary Brown" <jo@stmichael.fslife.co.uk> > Does anyone have knowledge of when the following Dumfries photographers > were in business? > > Robert Wilson, 121 High Street > J. Richmond, Brook Street - off Queen's Place. > > I am trying to date a small number of photos - carte de visite - of > presently unknown family members. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Jo Brown

Hello Ian, Many thanks for such interesting information about Robert Wilson. My grt. grandmother married into the West family, coachmakers in Dumfries, in 1871 so that certainly fits R.Ws. early period. The later photos I have carry a logo which looks like a winged archbishop! Grt. grandfather Alexander West born in 1848 had a brother John, a sister Jessie(married to David Dickson), a sister Rebecca (married to Roderick McKenzie, a plasterer) and a sister Agnes. No doubt these are the people in the photos but I still do not know which is which! I will also give that website a try. With all good wishes Jo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Anderson" <ianganderson@tesco.net> To: <DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] Dumfries photographers > Dear Jo Brown, > > I cannot help with J. Richmond, but have some knowledge of Robert > Wilson. My grandmother Agnes Gibson, who married my grandfather Samuel > Phillips Anderson in 1878, was before her marriage employed by Robert Wilson > in the capacity of colourist, i.e. she added colour by hand, where required, > to the black-and-white portrait cartes-de-visite produced in his studio; and > I still have a collection of well over 100 of his cartes, comprising > Anderson family portraits and those of other Dumfries townspeople. None of > these are dated, unfortunately; but evidence from the style of the cards and > costume suggests that he operated from the late 1860s possibly to the 1890s. > > You may get some help from the following website: > http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/ . > > Kind regards, > > Ian Anderson > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Josephine Mary Brown" <jo@stmichael.fslife.co.uk> > > > > Does anyone have knowledge of when the following Dumfries photographers > > were in business? > > > > Robert Wilson, 121 High Street > > J. Richmond, Brook Street - off Queen's Place. > > > > I am trying to date a small number of photos - carte de visite - of > > presently unknown family members. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Jo Brown > > > > ==== DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Mailing List ==== > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > If your line involves the surname BRUCE why not join > CLAN-BRUCE-L@rootsweb.com and find out more. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >