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Benjamin Franklin Pease Rilley

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17 Dec 1820 - 1888

  • OCCUPATION: Photographer
  • BIRTH: 17 Dec 1820, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York
  • DEATH: 1888, Lima
Family 1 : Mercedes Ramírez
  • MARRIAGE: 1855, Lima
  1.  María Candelaria Mercedes Pease Ramírez
  2. +Sara Pease Ramírez
  3.  Walter Pease Ramírez
  4.  Willy Pease Ramírez
  5.  Eloísa Pease Ramírez
  6.  Benjamina Pease Ramírez
  7.  Carlos Alberto Pease Ramírez
  8. +Benjamin Franklin Pease Ramírez
  9.  María Candelaria Mercedes Pease Ramírez
  10.  María Tomasa Mercedes Pease Ramírez

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Benjamin Franklin Pease arrived to Lima in 1852 and opened one of the first photographic studios at Plateros de San Pedro. First he took daguerrotypes, later on he would switch to glass negatives and positive paper printing.

Cf.: Keith McElroy, Early Peruvian Photography, Ann Arbor: 1985, UMI Research Press.