Harold Baker (photographer)

He went to King Edward School in New Street, Birmingham, and then apprenticed to a wood-carver of church furniture and designer of stained glass windows.

He was appointed official photographer to the Birmingham Archaeological Society, succeeding Robert W.

[2] In 1902, Baker was invited to assist J. Benjamin Stone the official photographer for the coronation of King Edward VII, and is credited with having taken the only photograph of the proclamation of the King at St James's Palace.

[2] In 1921 he judged the first annual photographic exhibition organised by the Soho Hill Men's Movement Camera Club.

[2] A collection of his work including over 200 albumen prints mainly of architectural and archaeological studies of buildings and sites in and around Birmingham c1870-1880 and 500 half-plate glass negatives of architectural and historical subjects is held in the Library of Birmingham.

Baker's Cannon Street overlooking roof tops, 1893 , depicting Birmingham. From a print in the collection of the Library of Birmingham .
Baker's portrait of Handsworth Urban District Council member and brewery owner Edgar Evans from Handsworth magazine, April 1900