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    photographs were hardly in his catalogue for nothing!
                                  The negatives were acquired by Suter in 1896, and his
                                  revised catalogue appeared in 1900, the years between
                                  presumably yielding the 512 micro-photographs.

                                  “Uncle Dick”

                                  Above  is  a  family  tree  compiled  by  Helen  Reed,  the
                                  inheritor of the artefacts illustrated so far.  As can be

                                  seen, Richard Suter junior (our preparer) was by far the
                                  eldest of nine children.  The female siblings fared less
                                  well  than  their  brothers,  since  two  (Jane  and  Sarah)
                                  died  in  infancy.    Both  were  born  in  Shoreditch,  and
                                  inner London was a hazardous place with high infant
                                  mortality:  their  deaths  may  have  been  a  major  factor
                                  influencing  the  family’s  move  to  then  semi-rural
                                  Tottenham  (Daisy  was  born  in  Tottenham).    Richard,
                                  by  contrast,  continued  mounting  into  the  twentieth
                                  century, and died in 1959 at the age of 95.  As attested
                                  by  Helen  Reed,  he  became  a  father  figure  for  other
                                  members  of  the  family.    Never  married,  lacking
                                  children  of  his  own,  he  was  affectionately  known  as
                                  “Uncle  Dick”.    (The  parallel  with  William  Joseph
                                  Norman – “Uncle Will” - is obvious, since both were
                                  accomplished  mounters,  both  had  additional  artistic
                                  abilities,  both  were  childless,  and  both  became  father
                                  figures for younger family members.)

                                  Daisy Suter, our mounter’s sister, younger by 24 years,
                                  married  William  Peirce,  and  their  son  William’s
                                  wedding to Grace Chapman is shown below.  “Uncle

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