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'''Vernon & Co''' Photographic Studios operated from various addresses in Esplanade Row [[Bombay]] from early 1900s <ref> [https://indianculture.gov.in/other-collections/thackers-indian-directory-1904-embracing-whole-british-india-and-native-states Thackers Annual Directory 1904 P1324] </ref> until at least the 1920s. By 1920 the studios had also embraced the world of film - a similar progression to the celebrated [[Clifton & Co, Photographers (Bombay)| Clifton & Co studios]] - which also operated at that time in the Bombay area. <ref> [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.97229/page/n2151/mode/2up?view=theater Thackers Annual Directory 1920] </ref>
The studio produced many photographs and photographic albums which record portraits and events relating to the local Indian Royal families. For an example see [https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Indian_Portrait_VI/_iVQCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22vernon+%26+co%22+album&pg=PT71&printsec=frontcover Album depicting Coronation of Maharana Shri Vijayasinhji 1915 - Googlebooks]
**In 1902 he had been an assistant at the Bourne & Shepherd Studios, Bombay <ref> [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.28907/page/n2119/mode/2up Thackers Annual Directory 1902] </ref>
* Pranshakar and Manishankar Joshi - two brothers who had been apprenticed in Vernon Studios, Bombay, for about five years before moving to Jyoti studio and finally opening the Joshi studios in Rajkot (1911) - where, like Vernon & Co, they became photographers for many princely states. <ref> [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_iVQCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT67&lpg=PT67&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false The Indian Portrait - VI: A Photographic evolution]</ref>
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