Category:William Pryor Floyd

William Pryor Floyd (1830 - c.1900)^[1] was a British photographer active between 1865 and 1874.^[2]

He worked as an assistant in the Shanghai photography studio of Shannon & Co in 1865. He moved the following year to Macau to establish his own studio along the Praya Grande. One year later he went to Hong Kong. In 1868 William Prior Floyd took over a photographic company in Hong Kong known as The Firm. It was not in fact a firm but a collection of photographic negatives that had been put together since 1859 by various photographers. These included Weed, Howard, Felix Beato, Milton Miller, John Thomson and Halsey. Floyd & Co. were at 62 Queen's Road at the Victoria Photographic Company. W.P. Floyd sold his company in 1874.^[1]

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William Pryor Floyd 

British photographer (1834-1900)
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Date of birth	1834 Cornwall
Date of death	1900
Work period (start)	1860
Work period (end)	1880
Country of citizenship	United States of America
Occupation	photographer
Employer	R. Shannon & Co (1864)
Work location	Shanghai (1863–1864) Macau (1864) Hong Kong (1866–1875)
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