Record ID:
36206126 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18590815
  • Aberdeen, Scotland
Death:
  • 19300624
  • Hobart, Tasmania
Associated with:
  • Tasmania
Occupations:
  • photographer antiquarian
Used for:
  • Beattie, John Watt, 1859-1930
  • Beattie, John Watt
See also:
Notes:
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography, viewed 22 September 2016 (John Watt Beattie (1859-1930), photographer and antiquarian, was born on 15 August 1859 at Aberdeen, Scotland... he migrated with his parents and brother in 1878, and struggled to clear a farm in the Derwent Valley, Tasmania... From 1879 he made many photographic expeditions into the bush, becoming a full-time professional in 1882 in partnership with Anson Bros whom he bought out in 1891.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/beattie-john-watt-5171
  • Differs from LCNA form 1/17 (Beattie, John Watt)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography WWW site 23 July, 2013 Photographer and antiquarian; born in Scotland 1859; migrated to Tasmania with his parents 1878; full-time photographer mainly in Hobart, from 1882; in 1906 travelled to the Western Pacific and Norfolk Island; died suddenly in Hobart 1930 http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/beattie-john-watt-5171
Local system number:
  • (VSL)1590891
  • (AuCNL)119439
  • 000001212899
  • abv02414083
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX10827
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda VSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc