Samuel Child was born in 1887 at Leeds, the son of bricklayer Benjamin Child. He was a student at the City of Leeds Training College. In 1909 his school practice was at Belle Vue Council School. As well as his Board of Education Certificate he held a diploma in School Hygiene from the Royal Sanitary Institute. From 1910 to 1913 he was Assistant Master at Garforth Council School. In 1913 at Lovell Road Council School and later that year moving to Woodhouse Street Council School until 1921. During WW1 he did Military Service.

Charles Richard Hattersley Pickard was a prolific photographer around Leeds in the first half of the twentieth century. He had active business premises in the city from 1897 to 1940. He appears to have given up control of the firm Charles Pickard and Son around the start of WW2 when his son Alan took over.
The firms negatives were destroyed in 1964 at the time of a move to new premises. In 1986 they changed name to Larkfield Photography Ltd. and in 1994 became Leach Studio Ltd. This company was dissolved in 2000. Latterly they specialised in Industrial Photography, many prints being handed over to Leeds Industrial Museum (Armley?).