About Frederick York
Lived 1823 – 1903 (aged 79–80). Frederick York was a photographer.
Frederick Arlington Viler York (1823–1903) was an early 19th-century photographer, active first in Somerset, England, and from 1855 to 1861 in Cape Town, Cape Colony, modern-day South Africa. In February 1861, he received the first carte-de-visite camera in South Africa as a present from H.R.H. Prince Alfred. Upon return to the United Kingdom in 1865, he established the business York & Son in Notting Hill, London, specialising in the manufacture of lantern slides.
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English photographer and manufacturer (1823–1903)
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Frederick York was born in 1823.
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Frederick York died in 1903.
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Frederick York was a photographer.
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