George Perry (active 1854-1897) operated studios in Collins Street between 1855 and 1865 and a studio at 49 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne from 1867 to 1872. In 1864 he invented the Perry-o-Type process. In 1867 he advertised that by way of his experiments in the chemistry of photography he had ‘abolished torture’ in the creation of portraits by doing away with the head-rest ‘which is so universally objected to’. In 1872 he took telescopic pictures of the moon. Declared insolvent in 1871, henceforth he worked at various addresses in Bourke Street.
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