Portrait of Henry Beaufoy Merlin, 1872–1873, attributed to the American and Australian Photographic Company, State Library of New South Wales, ON 4 Box 30 No 68
American and Australasian Photographic Company, Gold Rush and Holtermann Exposition photographs
Henry Beaufoy Merlin (1830–1873) was an Australian photographer, showman, illusionist and illustrator.[2] In the 1850s he worked as a theatrical showman and performer in Sydney, Newcastle and Maitland. In 1863 he was the first person to introduce Pepper's ghost to Australia. After this, he took up photography and between 1869 and 1872 turned the American Australasian Photographic Company into one of the most respected studios in Australia. Between 1872 and 1873 he worked extensively documenting the goldfields and mining towns of New South Wales. In 1873, as an employee of Bernhardt Holtermann, he photographed Sydney and many rural New South Wales towns. He died on 27 September 1873.[3]
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^Bradshaw, Richard (2005). "Merlin, Henry Beaufoy (1830–1873)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. Supplementary. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
^Geoff Barker, Henry Beaufoy Merlin Showman and Photographer, 2018
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