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Harry Marshall Ward FRS (1854-1906)
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Linked Ring 1902 Bronze Plaque
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Sutcliffe's "Quo Vadis?"
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I have a keen interest of the photographic history of both the Linked Ring and the London Photographic Salon - and have been providing information/photographs about both the early history of these Photographic associations and their members (…
UPDATE-- The signature was deciphered by Donald Wheeler, Collection Development Librarian at The New York Botanical Garden. It's "J. Palmer Clarke" -- who had a studio in Cambridge. There's a comparison signature in the upper left corner of this pag…
Here's a platinum print of the botanist Harry Marshall Ward, Cambridge Professor credited with revolutionizing the study of Botany in Great Britain. He's the subject of a recent (2005) biography, Harry Marshall Ward and the Fungal Thread of Death.…
Don't mean to be rude, replying to my own questions... but... here's what I found in The Photographic Times, July 1902:
The Photographic Salon, 1902 (tenth year), will be held at the Dudley Gallery (Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, W., from Septe…
Here's a bronze relief, 10 x 24 cm, signed with a copyright symbol and the name EMANUEL (only one "M" in the name.)
In case it's not legible, here's the title:
THE TENTH EXHIBITION of the PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON promoted by the LINKED RING 1909.
A few qu…
Members of this group may be interested in an image by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe called "Quo Vadis?" shown on this page of a new online exhibition, "Inventing Modernism."
The photograph was reproduced in The Photographic Journal in a memorial article…
Hartmut, sorry I can't help with #32 but I thought I would share a non-stereo image from William England's Rhine series. These are about the same size as a stereo, but with a single wide image. Perhaps he used his stereo camera with a wide-angle len…
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Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
De Montfort University. MA course Photographic History and Practice
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
www.rps.org/group/Historical 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
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