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Their partnership produced around 3,000 different photographs, but was cut short after only four years due to the ill health and untimely death of
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who suggested using the new invention, photography, to get likenesses of all the ministers present. Brewster was himself experimenting with this technology which only dated back to 1839, and he introduced Hill to another enthusiast,
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landscapes and urban scenes, including images of the Scott
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