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''' Fred Bremner''' (1863-1941 was born in Scotland and was the son of Photographer. After leaving school he worked for some years in his father's studio before travelling to India in 1882 to work for his brother in law - who had a photographic studio in [[Lucknow]]. From 1889 he began to establish his own photographic studios - firstly in [[Karachi]] and later [[Quetta]] , [[Lahore]] and [[Rawalpindi]]. He returned to the UK in 1923 and died in Scotland in 1941 not long after publication of his memoir "My Forty Years in India"
==FIBIS Resources==
* [https://wiki.fibis.org/w/Category:Bremner_photographic_postcards gallery of postcard images]
==External Links==
[http://old.harappa.com/bremner/index.html Fred Bremner’s Indian Years 1882-1923] by Brij Bhushan Sharma. old.harappa.com. Includes links to a number of essays. There is no link for Essay 1, but it is available in [https://web.archive.org/web/20141209053003/http://www.harappa.com/bremner/photography-baluchistan.html an archived form]. Includes quotes from his autobiography ''My Forty Years in India'', published 1940, (now available in a reprint edition<ref> [http://www.pagodatreepress.com/40yearsinindia-b.html ''My Forty Years in India'' by Fred Bremner] Pagoda Tree Press</ref>) The website includes a series of 9 Indian soldier images from his pictorial album ''Types of the British Indian Army 1895'', which contained c 60 images.
:[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Fred__Bremner/A/ Fred Bremner] luminous-lint.com. Includes commercial details.
