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Learn about the Amateur Photographer Andrew Milne at www.onahillroad.com
Do you have any stereo cards of scenes in or around Newbury (Berkshire, UK)? This is a request for your help with some research I'm doing.
Below is a nice example of a card by the professional Newbury Photographer E T Brooks. It was probably one of a short series of cards produced for sale to tourists. I would imagine it dates from the 1870s. This card…
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The book is a 'Now and Then' book which explores the 3D stereo archive of keen Scottish amateur photographer Andrew Milne who travelled Scotland with his Stereo Victo camera between 1902 and 1905. Although an amateur, Andrew's image stand up well against many of the commercial images of Scotland made by more famous names.
There is a launch talk with 3D images on the…
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I thought it might cause some amusement to post this picture from an the event held last weekend in Bath by the RPS Historical Group.
My picture touches four periods of photography: The sitter is David Burder, Daguerreotype aficionado, being photographed by Dr Guy Brown using a freshly made collodion wet plate in the camera while being captured on a digital camera by…
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I heard about this interesting photographic archive on the radio today. Perhaps the images are not quite as old as many of the photographs discussed here but nevertheless this collection of photographs of life in Bolton just before the Second World War is fascinating.
All of these pictures were taken by Humphrey Spender as part of the first Mass Observation project…
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Greetings again from Montreal, Ian -- thought I'd correct my mistake -- Helen's Island should , of course, read Ellen's Island. In fact were I'm sending this from The Atwater Library { I'm volunteer curator here of historical collections } and the volunteer in our computer room is a woman from Scotland named Ellen.
Regards, Ed
Thanks for your follow-up,Ian. Mr Wilson, I agree, is underrated.
Landscapes never much interested me -- Alex Henderson of Montreal was an exception -- until I saw a stereo of Helen's Island by GWW -- the composition made yours truly a believer in poetic landscapes. Best, Ed
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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