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William McKenzie Morrison (March 23, 1857 – March 24, 1921)^[1] was an American photographer best known for photographs of theater performers in Chicago, Illinois.

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Morrison was born in 1857 in Detroit, Michigan, but moved to Chicago at the beginning of the American Civil War. He began working in a photography studio at the age of ten. He attended the Metropolitan Business College in Chicago, graduating in 1879, and he used his education to manage a series of photography studios until 1889, when he opened his own studio, located in the Haymarket Theatre. In 1899, he moved his studio out of the theater building to its own location.^[2]

In addition to photography, Morrison had numerous business interests, including real estate and ranching.^[2] He retired from photography in 1911, selling his business to his employees.^[3] Photographer Clara Louise Hagins worked for Morrison.^[4]

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^ William M . Morrison in the Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916–1947. Birth Place: Detroit, MI. Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Occupation: Photographer – Retired
^ ^a ^b Shields, David S. "William McKenzie Morrison". Broadway Photographers. University of South Carolina. Retrieved December 25, 2013.
^ "Our Illustrations". Studio Light. 9 (8). Rochester, New York: Eastman Kodak: 23. September 1917. Retrieved December 25, 2013.
^ Pearl Grace Loehr, "The Relation of the Women's Federation to the Photographic Profession" Wilson's Photographic Magazine (January 1914): 10.