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RESEARCH - John Callister (1833-1912) A Jurby Folk Singer

31 May 2016


JOHN CALLISTER
(1833–1912)
A JURBY FOLK SINGER
 
John Callister is one of a number of folk singers in Jurby who were photographed in 1897 by the Rev. Frederick W. Stubbs, the incumbent of the parish at that date. The one surviving photograph of Callister is not of the best as regards its quality or state of preservation, but it at least has the virtue of existing and so allowing us to see a likeness of the man at the remove now of well over a century.
 
by Stephen Miller, Vienna 2016
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