Edgar G Lee
Edgar G. Lee was a Whitley Bay man who lived on Tyneside in the late 1800’s. Not much is known about Lee, except that he was a portrait photographer by profession with a studio in the old Eldon Square in Newcastle. He was, however, more than just a studio photographer as these pictures show.
Lee had an abiding interest in the life of Tyneside, and spent a lot of time outside his studio, in the streets of Newcastle, on the Quayside, at North Shields Fish Quay, and on the beaches of Tynemouth, Cullercoats and Whitley Bay. Lee’s work has a spontaneous quality. He documented the life of Tyneside as he found it, and he has left us with a fascinating glimpse of the way things were nearly one hundred years ago.
During the late 1800’s photographic materials progressed from the wet collodion process with glass plates coated by the photographer immediately before the picture was taken, to the more standardised factory-made dry plate, introduced around 1880.
Lee Collection
from: Photography
Street, river and beach photographs from the late C19th and early C20th by the Tyneside photographer who had a portrait studio in the old Eldon Square in Newcastle.