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T & H Smith

The advert below may have been the first advert for the sale of photographic materials in Edinburgh.

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The Scotsman  13 April 1839  Page 3

PHOTOGENIC DRAWING

T & H SMITH, CHEMISTS, have prepared the paper and other materials for the above elegant and newly-discovered art, with instructions for their use, which may be had at their Laboratory, No 21, Duke Street, Edinburgh.

 

 

T & H Smith

Less than three months after Talbot announced his photogenic drawing, the chemists T & H Smith in Edinburgh were selling materials for the process.

It would be interesting to know how much material they sold and to whom, and what success the purchasers had with the process.

 

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