24th May, 2023 12:00
Fine Instruments of Science, Medicine and Books
mountaineering - Early image of the Matterhorn, 1909
A large and unusual photograph of The Matterhorn, signed to the bottom 'Donald McLeish 1909' in original polished wooden frame, 39cm x 50cm
Thomas Donald McLeish was born on March 11th, 1879. He joined Eliot and Fry in 1893 as a photographic negative clerk. Later in 1900 he began teaching photography at Regent Street Polytechnic. He became a freelance photographer and supplied photographs to magazines such as National Geographic and Illustrated London News. He joined the RNVR in 1916 and was assigned as a photographer to Port Said where some of his first aerial war photos were taken. He lived in Canonbury. McLeish built his own camera that took 5x4 glass plates. It was displayed in the Science Museum and now is at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.
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A large and unusual photograph of The Matterhorn, signed to the bottom 'Donald McLeish 1909' in original polished wooden frame, 39cm x 50cm
Thomas Donald McLeish was born on March 11th, 1879. He joined Eliot and Fry in 1893 as a photographic negative clerk. Later in 1900 he began teaching photography at Regent Street Polytechnic. He became a freelance photographer and supplied photographs to magazines such as National Geographic and Illustrated London News. He joined the RNVR in 1916 and was assigned as a photographer to Port Said where some of his first aerial war photos were taken. He lived in Canonbury. McLeish built his own camera that took 5x4 glass plates. It was displayed in the Science Museum and now is at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.
