Harry Walters

Harry Walters (1848, Uckfield – 1926) was a prominent photographer in late Victorian and Edwardian Ipswich.

Walters first worked as a cook and confectioner. But he built his first camera in 1870 and established himself as a professional photographer by 1894. Originally based in Crown Street, Ipswich, he established his business at 11 St Margarets Plain, Ipswich in 1906, where it remained until his death in 1926. In addition to producing thousands of studio portraits, he also recorded local events, many of which were reproduced as postcards.

He used the stage name "Harry Wilmott" appearing with a group of musicians known as the Snowflake Minstrels.

Walters enjoyed producing trick photographs, including one featuring HMS Hannibal blended into a scene on Ipswich New Cut, in Ipswich dock. The photograph was used on a postcard circa 1896.

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