William James Topley
Canadian photographer
Died when: 85 years 276 days (1029 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
William James Topley (13 February 1845 – 16 November 1930) was a Canadian photographer based in Ottawa, Ontario.He was the best known of Ottawa’s nineteenth-century photographers and the most socially prominent one.
Topley was noted for his portraiture of Canadian politicians and was a business partner of William Notman, having taken over Notman's Ottawa studio in 1872.
A large number of photographs by Topley are now in the collection of Library and Archives Canada, including approximately 150,000 glass plates negatives and a set of 66 index albums covering the entire history of his Ottawa studios from 1868 until 1923.
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