Siza, Julio Augusto, fl. 1887-1917 (photographer)
Dates
- Existence: fl. 1887 - 1917
Biography
Julio Augusto Siza was a commercial photographer based in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana) in the 1880s and 1890s. In the 1887 edition of 'The British Guiana directory...' Siza is listed as having a photographic studio, 'The Lusitana Photographic Gallery', in Water Street (1887, p.111 and 251). He continued working in Water Street until 1896 ('British Guiana directory...' 1896, p.147 and 304). According to Tereza Siza, the photographer's great grand-daughter, Julio Augusto Siza moved to Para, Brazil and had another studio there, 'Photographia Amazonas', before he returned to Portugal, where he died in 1917. In 1886 he was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London ('British Guiana directory...' 1889, p.xxii). The business was probably taken over by Jardine.
Sources:
'The British Guiana directory and almanack' (1887-1892, 1894 and 1896). Georgetown, Demerara: C.K. Jardine.
Email from Tereza Siza, his great grand-daughter, to RCS librarian, dated 23 May 2007.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Demarara Georgetown, 1880 - 1889
240 x 188 mm. A view looking south west over the Georgetown roof tops from the Cathedral. The Town Hall and St Andrews Kirk can be seen on the skyline. The road at the right of the photograph is King Street.
Demarara Georgetown Market Square, 1880 - 1889
242 x 192 mm. A view looking south from the Market Square, with the open square, pedestrians and a horse tram in the foreground and Lombard Street beyond. The Demerara River can just be seen in the distance at the right of the photograph.
Demerara Gold Prospecting, Chinese Creek, 1880 - 1889
243 x 193 mm. A view showing prospectors at work panning for alluvial gold beside a river. Unsigned photograph.
Demerara Town Hall, Georgetown, 1880 - 1889
248 x 199 mm. A view showing the Georgetown Town Hall in High Street, a mock-gothic affair with a decorative tower, completed in 1889. See also Y307A/76.
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