[2] He had been a timber merchant and a director of the Wisbech Gas Light & Coke company His earliest dated photograph Is that of 12 October 1852.
Many images are of buildings long since disappeared, such as the stone Town bridge, Butter Cross, Old Workhouse and Octagon Church.
The General Cemetery Chapel built in 1848 would have followed as the roof had been removed by Fenland District Council, and it was in danger of demolition, however Wisbech Society carried out a restoration project and it can now be compared with Smith's image of 1856.
[5] Wisbech and Fenland Museum staged a major exhibition to mark the centenary of Smith, one of the Fen's most famous photographers.
The organisers were expecting visitors to come from countrywide to see the exhibition on Samuel Smith, which ran from Saturday 27 June until August 29, 1992.
The exhibition included a special seminar at the town's Angles Theatre Centre which featured the following speakers: Michael W. Gray, of the Fox Talbot Museum, whose topic was "Calotype Photography," Mr Millward, of Blackburn Museum, on "Samuel Smith, Wisbech and Local History," Geoffrey Stanger, of Weybridge, on "Samuel Smith's Family and Private Life," Brian Coe, Museum of the Moving Image, on "The Photography of Samuel Smith," and Wisbech Museum curator David Devenish, on "Samuel Smith as a collector."
Thc book is called "Samuel Smith, Wisbech Past and Present" and costs £3.95.