Alfred Moore Pepper (1865-1917)

Alfred Moore Pepper was born in Sheffield and moved to Scarborough with his family before the 1881 census. It was reported in the local paper that he had passed his exams and received the Queen’s Prize for Geometry at Scarborough Art School in 1883. He married Jane Kimberley in 1906 and they lived with her family at Lonsdale Villa, Lonsdale Road in Scarborough. He has a studio in Victoria Road from at least 1890 and continued working probably until he died aged 52. Sometimes the cards are inscribed “Pepper & Co.” He is buried in Scarborough Cemetery.

portrait of an unknown man with a bushy moustache by Scarborough photographer, Alfred Moore Pepper, Cabinet card

Portrait of an unknown man

Cabinet card

A coloured photographic postcard of Scarborough Sands by Alfred Pepper
Unused back of a photographic postcard by A. M. Pepper of Scarborough

Scarborough Sands, South Bay

Postcard, hand-coloured

Photographic Practice

  • Carte de Visites, Cabinet Cards and Postcards

  • Portraits and landscapes

  • Hand-colouring

Studios

113 Victoria Road, Scarborough - 1890-1915

References

Adamson, K. I. P., 1995, p7

Baylis, A. and P., 1998, p64

John Kendrick’s Postcard Collection

Scarborough Gazette, 2 August 1883 (British Newspaper Archive)