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Almost a decade before Samuel Bourne arrived in Simla, Charles William Derusett had established himself as a commercial photographer in the town.1 He was not the only member of his family to be connected to early Indian photography: in 1855, his illustrious cousin by marriage,2 Linnaeus Tripe, had just begun five years' work as Official Photographer to the Government of India's Mission to Ava (Upper Burma) and Official Photographer to the Madras Government. But the lives and careers of the two men were very different and, as far as we know, they never met. Ray Desmond writes of Derusett that in the 1850s:
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