Menzies Dickson
"Fijian chiefs & dwarf" photograph by Menzies Dickson, circa 1865
Hawaiian in riding dress, circa 1865
Menzies Dickson (ca. 1840 – 1891) was a photographer in Hawaii. He took many portraits, and some photographs of sights and objects. James J. Williams (1853–1926) worked in his studio, buying it out in 1882.[1] Subjects of his portraits included John Adams Cummins, Archibald Scott Cleghorn, Kalakaua, poi dealer, grass dealer, Kamehameha IV, Kapiolani (1879), Keelikolani, Keelikolani with Parker and Cummins, Leleiohoku, Likelike (1868), Liliuokalani, Major Moehonua, Martin and Moehonua (survivors of Honolulu Courthouse Riot of 1874), Queen Emma wearing Niihau lei, Queen Kapiolani, and William Pitt Leleiohoku. He also photographed the Princeville plantation in Hanalei, the Punchbowl Crater and Waiuli (Wailua) Lower Falls on Kauai.
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- ↑ Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography edited by John Hannavy page 640
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