"Colas, Louis Ferdinand
Born in France 1820.
Md Emma (b France 1832).
2 sons.
STUDIO: 105 Cheapside, City of London November 1854 - 1859. Successors to Mouque & Colas.
Pasteboard - ...
box manufacturer 55 Fleet Street, City of London 1844 - 1848.
105 Fleet Street, City of London 1848 - 1849.
4 Bow Lane, Cheapside, City of London 1860 - 1862.
57 Cheapside, City of London 1863 - 1865 (photographer here, according to Pritchard).
9 Westmoreland Buildings, Aldersgate Street, City of London 1866 - 1867.
1851: photographer living at 105 Cheapside, City of London, with F A Mouque.
1861: stationery manufacturer living at 8 Palatine Place, Stoke Newington Road, Stoke Newington.
Bankrupt July 28 1866, at Hilldrop Crescent, Camden Town, St Pancras.
Colas was a pupil of the French daguerreotypist, Lerebours.
Advert for portrait lenses IN Photographic Record April 1 1857.
Died in Shoreditch 1876" (http://www.photolondon.org.uk/pages/details.asp?pid=1644, besucht 19.04.2013)
