E. H. Forster
Maryborough photographer 1872 - 1888
Forster opened the studio for the American
and Australasian Photographic Company, named the American
and Australian Photographic Company.
Marcel
Safier, Brisbane based photohistorian and collector,
has a web page devoted to Forster.
Marcel
introduces the connection that maybe Beaufoy Merlin saw the
opportunity for expansion of the American and Australasian
Photographic Company into
Queensland when he passed through the South East of
Queensland on
his boat trip to the north in 1871.
The other connection
is that Forster married in Sydney in 1871 then moved
back to Maryborough and opened the studio for the American
and Australasian Photographic Company, named the American
and Australian Photographic Company.
All
the while, as stated by Marcel, there was also a similarity
in the style of photography as being practiced by Merlin,
Lind and Forster, to be later expanded by Bayliss.