James Valentine

James Valentine

James Valentine

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James Valentine

In 1825 John Valentine established the Valentine company, printers and lithographers, in Dundee.  

His son, James Valentine, was born in 1815.  He learnt the Daguerreotype process in the late 1840s and opened a portrait studio in Dundee in early 1850s, specialising in cartes de visite.  The following decade, the Valentine company entered the photographic publishing business.    [MIT]

James Valentine's sons William Dobson Valentine (1844-1907) and George Dobson Valentine (1852-1890) succeeded him in running the family business in Dundee until George Dobson Valentine emigrated to New Zealand in 1884.

Please click here to discover more about how James Valentine's publishing  business developed.

James Valentine

Photographs in Collections

St Andrews University has an extensive archive of negatives and photographs by James Valentine.

The Edinburgh Room of Edinburgh Public Library has about 100 photographs of Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland, attributed to:-  Valentine, James Valentine and James Valentine & Sons Ltd.

Family

Postcards

Albumen Prints

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Family

Postcards

Thumbnails

Holyrood from Calton Hill

Holyrood Chapel

History

Postcard Views

Stereo Views

Publishers

Overseas

Exhibitions

EPS

Portobello

Newhaven

Rock House

Stereo Views

Books and Souvenirs

Books and Booklets

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