Ashbury Bright

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Bright worked as a professional photographer from 1858 to 1868 in Victoria and Queensland. As well as producing carte-de-visite portraits in Melbourne, he photographed Aboriginal subjects and views while travelling in Queensland.
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professional photographer and pastoralist, was a daguerreotype photographer with a studio at 83 Swanston Street, Melbourne, in 1858-59. By 1864 he was associated with the Excelsior Photographic Gallery at Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland, offering cartes-de-visite portraits for 7s 6d each or six for £1 in the Maryborough Chronicle of 26 May. After travelling around Queensland, Bright returned to Maryborough in 1868. In September he sold his negative collection of Aboriginal subjects and views to C.H. Moore and retired from photography. He appears in the 1885 Gympie electoral rolls as the owner of Apollonion Vale.

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