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- December 1923 (Creation)
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1 digital surrogate of photographic print
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Richard Ellis (27 January 1842 – 23 December 1924) was a British-Maltese photographer who was one of the pioneers of photography in Malta during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in St. Luke's, East London, he travelled throughout Europe as a circus performer before settling down in Malta at the age of nineteen. Within a few years he had opened a studio in Valletta, and became a renowned photographer. His archive of tens of thousands of photographs still exists, and his work is significant for both its historic value and technical quality.
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Private deposit by Ms Doreen Curmi and Louise Zammit La Rosa, grand daughters of the last owner of the business: Arthur Rizzo Marich.
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Back of photo of stall at the British Empire Exhibition at Auberge d'Italie with a an array of cigarette products on display.
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11 of 15 digitized photographic prints
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Carrier: Photographic print
Medium: Photograph
Digital format: TIFF
Resolution: 400 DPI
Mounted/not mounted/framed/not framed: No mount
Colour / B&W: B&W
Dimensions of photographic prints: 27.8cm X 20.7cm
Size and dimensions of digital image (born-digital or surrogate): 1194 x 1584 - 5.42MB
Hard copy / born digital: Hard copy
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Inscription analysis: British Empire Exhibition
The Malta Preliminary Exhibition
Held at the 'Auberge d'Italie'
15th to 24th Dec. 1923
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Date of cataloguing: 29/11/2024
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Catalogued by: Sabrina Calleja Jackson