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Assuming you're bored to tears by the Tory leadership debate and are sheltering indoors from the heat, perhaps you might like to look closely (running any filters and software you have) at the following photos?
Part of my ongoing research into the history of my street involves intently studying and often redating old photos by comparing shop signs to trade directories etc. Sometimes, as with the photos below, I *think* I can see something but others-whose opinion I respect- can't always and so I thought I would ask here.
The first is a very Lo-res shop sign from 1876 (I think), containing 2 words. I am pretty sure I can make out what it says but won't tell you my guess- 'confirmation bias' and all that. Unfortunately I can't easily get a higher res copy.
The 2nd Photo is from a magic lantern slide, which I am 99% certain comes from 1897. Please embiggen the very 'normal for norfolk' (expressing things politely, there) looking boy's face and tell me what you see and what you think it might be, please.
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Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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