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I recently purchased at a camera auction an Adams Best Bag Changing Box, identical to the one described in this advert printed in "The British Journal Photographic Almanac" dated 1905. To my surprise inside the box there were 5 glass 1/4 plate (4.25 x 3.25 inches) negatives showing outdoor images of 'white circles' on what I believe to be an airfield, as there are a couple of hangars in the distance. The date of the equipment, the use of glass plates and the subject matter lends itself to assume the negatives were created around 1915, a few years before the RAF was created in 1918. I am trying to determine what the white circles could be used for, and if the airfield can be identified. The found negatives have been inverted to create these positives.
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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