Catalogue description PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO JOHN EDWARD THORNTON

This record is held by Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)

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Reference: 2158
Title: PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO JOHN EDWARD THORNTON
Date: 1889 - 1905
Held by: Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Stockport Museum Service

Physical description: 66 PHOTOGRAPHS
Subjects:
  • Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Co Ltd, Manchester
  • Thornton, John, Edward, b 1865
Administrative / biographical background:

These photographs are from the John Edward Thornton papers deposited at Vernon Park Museum, Stockport. John Edward Thornton, 1865-1940, was the founder of the Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Co. Ltd., whose photographic apparatus became famous world-wide Thornton resigned from the Company in 1898 but the Company retained his Patents. He left for America in 1913 and returned to the U.K. in 1919/20. By 1930 he was earning £3,000 p.a. from Kodak and had been a prolific inventor throughout his life. He died in Bury (Lancs.) Infirmary on 5th October, 1940.

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