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John Beasley Greene was born in 1832 in Le Havre, Basse-Normandie, France. He was the the son of an American banker.
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John Beasley Greene
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His work combined two passions: the new technology of photography and the discovery of Ancient Egypt. After his father's death in 1850, John Beasley Greene was able to finance his first trip to Egypt in 1854.
He was a founding member of the Société française de photographie, founded on 15 November 1854.
In Algeria in late 1855 and early 1856 he photographed his excavation campaigns of the Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania led by Louis-Adrien Berbrugger. He left Egypt shortly afterwards and died of tuberculosis in Cairo at the age of 24.
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November 15, 1854