Thomas Ellis

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A professional photographer who worked in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 1866-1868. He was commissioned by the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866 to photograph the gallery interior and artworks. He also received an honourable mention for his untouched portraits.
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professional photographer, worked in Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Melbourne, in 1866-68. He was the proprietor of a company, which included William Hall , appointed by the commissioners of the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition to take views of the interior of the building and the exhibits on sale there. The pseudonymous 'Sol’ in the Australian Monthly Magazine remarked that Ellis & Co. had 'purchased the exclusive rights to photograph the interior of the exhibition, and … right well are they doing it. We have never seen finer interiors’. At the exhibition itself Ellis was awarded an honourable mention for his untouched photographic portraits.

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