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ID: 500036644
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500036644

 

Record Type: Person
McCosh, John (British photographer, officer and physician, 1805-1885, active in India)

Note: From 1831, McCosh was a surgeon at the British Army's Bengal Medical Establishment in India. From ca. 1841 to 1842, McCosh learned photography while finishing his medical training in Edinburgh, Scotland. During his stay in India, McCosh is documented as being active in Canton (China), ca. 1851, and Burma in 1852.

Names:
McCosh, John (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
John McCosh (V,display)
MacCosh, John (V)
McCosh, Dr. John (V)
McCosh, John, Dr. (V)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)

Roles:
photographer (preferred)
soldier
officer
physician

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Scotland (United Kingdom) (country)

Events:
active:   1841-ca. 1860  India (Asia) (nation)
active:   Canton (Canton province, China) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  McCosh, John (I)

Biographies:
(British photographer, officer and physician, 1805-1885, active in India) ..... [VP Preferred]
(British soldier, photographer, ca.1802-ca.1887) ..... [BHA]
(English photographer, physician and officer (military officer); born Scotland (United Kingdom), 1805; died 1885) ..... [CCA]
(British amateur photographer, 1805-1885) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
John McCosh ........ [CCA]
.........................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
MacCosh, John ........ [CCA, RKD]
.............................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
.............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 382497
McCosh, Dr. John ........ [CCA]
..................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
McCosh, John ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
...........................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
...........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 382497
McCosh, John, Dr. ........ [CCA]
....................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database

Subject: ........ [BHA, CCA, RKD]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Johnson, Nineteenth-Century Photography (1990)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  McKenzie, John McCosh, History of Photography (1987)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 382497
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q21079155
....................  Worswick and Spence, Imperial China (1978) 136
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
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