2/13/2023 0 Comments Valentines postcard![]() ![]() His organisational and presentational skills were essential in the rapidly expanding and thriving concern which opened a large printing works at 152 and 154 Perth Road, Dundee. In 1866 Valentine carried out his first Royal commission and received the Royal warrant in 1867. In 1855 he erected one of the largest photographic glasshouses in Britain.Ībout 1860, he decided to emulate the success of George Washington Wilson in Aberdeen in selling topographical view photographs. He added portrait photography to the activities of his established Dundee business, which had been based up to 1851 on the engraving, printing and supply of business stationery. The business Valentine & Sons Ltd was founded in Dundee in 1851 by James Valentine. Valentine studied photography at the University of St Andrews where he became an acquaintance of Thomas Rodger, who probably photographed him in around 1850. James Valentine was born on 12 June 1815 in Dundee, the second of the five children of John Valentine (1792–1868), linen weaver, and his wife, Mary Valentine née Watson (1790-1866).
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