| LC control no. | nr 88002241 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869 |
| Biography/History note | Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was an early British photographer and one of the first war photographers. |
| Birth date | 1819-03-28 |
| Death date | 1869-08-08 |
| Place of birth | Bury (Greater Manchester, England) |
| Place of death | Potters Bar (England) |
| Field of activity | Photography |
| Profession or occupation | Photographers |
| Found in | His Exhibition of the photographic pictures taken in the Crimea, 1856: t.p. (Roger Fenton) LC in RLIN, 3-22-88 (hdg.: Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869) General Bousquet's Quarter Looking Towards MackenzieFarm, 1855 : (Roger Fenton was born on 28 March 1819 in Bury, Lancashire, England; he visited the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851 and became interested in photography; traveled to France to learn the waxed paper calotype process and was exhibiting photographs by 1852; in 1854, he went to Crimea and took photographs to document the Crimean War; died 8 August 1869 at his home in Potter's Bar, Hertfordshire) |
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