John Samuel Swire, c.1897

Title : John Samuel Swire, c.1897

Topic : Warren Swire collection

Location : Unknown

Estimated dates : 1896 - 1898

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Negative

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Sw09-056. From a dark blue cloth ‘Film Negative Album’,12 cm x 16 cm. This album (Sw09) was labelled ‘P2/VII’ on the back cover. This is most probably John Samuel Swire (1825-1898) and the photograph may well have been taken at Leighton House, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, shortly before his death. The photographer, George Warren Swire (son of John Samuel Swire), would have been a teenager, and this is one of his early photographic efforts. C. N. Co. (China Navigation Company); Butterfield & Swire.

Keywords : Swire