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Sydney Smith (1884-1958) was an English photographer who was born and worked in the North Riding of Yorkshire.^[1] Smith has also been referred to as 'Sidney' or 'Sid' Smith.^[2]

Smith was born in Pickering, North Yorkshire on 5 April 1884 into a family of builders, with eleven siblings.^[3] Aged 14 Smith began working as a delivery boy at the local Co-op shop, where the manager showed Smith how to make a pinhole camera.^[4] This led to a lifelong interest in photography and establishment of his business around 1900. He was first based in Park Street, Pickering, but in 1912 bought a coffee house at 13 Market Place, Pickering which he converted to a photography studio and shop.^[2] Smith married Maud Thompson and they had two children, Edmund and Barbara. Smith died on 3 October 1958 after breaking his hip and contracting pneumonia following a fall from a hospital window and is buried in Pickering.^[2] Maud died aged 94 on 3 February 1994.

Smith captured all aspects of local life including portraits and landscapes between 1900-1956. The surviving collection of photographs are a documentary representation of rural life in Yorkshire's North Riding, from local towns and villages to farming practices and significant local weather events alongside formal portraits. Smith sold postcards of his photography of local scenes in his shop in Pickering.

His collection of around 25,000 images and over 400 cameras are now housed at Beck Isle Museum, Pickering.

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Beck Isle Museum