Robert Harrison (b.1859)

Harrison worked as a photographer in Scarborough between at least 1897 and 1909. The son of photographer George Harrison and brother of photographer Thomas Harrison with whom he sometimes worked as the Harrison Brothers.

Born in Scarborough and living with his brother in Albion Street, Great Driffield in the 1881 Census. In the 1901 Census he was recorded as a photographer living in a van in Kesteven, Lincolnshire.

Postcard portrait of an unknown man by Robert Harrison of Scarborough
Back of photographic postcard by Robert Harrison of Scarborough
Detail of back of postcard by photographer Robert Harrison, Scarborough

Portrait of an unknown man,

Postcard

Portrait of an unknown man by Robert Harrison, Scarboro', Scarborough
Back of Cabinet card hotographic portrait by Robert Harrison, Scarborough

Portrait of an unknown man,

Cabinet Card

Carte de visite portrait of unknown child by Robert Harrison of Scarborough
Back of carte de visite by Robert Harrison of Scarborough

Portrait of an unknown child,

Carte de Visite

Photographic Practice

  • Portraiture

Studios

Bland’s Cliff, Scarborough (Harrison Bros)

9, 19 or 20 Clifton Street, Scarborough

11 Vernon Place, Scarborough

34 Norwood Street, Scarborough

Lincoln House, 69 Westborough, Scarborough

A van in Kesteven, Lincolnshire, 1901

References

Adamson, K.I.P., 1996, p6

Bayliss, A. and P., 1998, p54

Museum Collections

National Trust - Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire