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Artist Lala Meredith Vula will speak about her exhibition Flowers of Earth and Blood and about her journey in photography documenting important political and social events. The audience are invited to view the exhibition in the Alison Richard…
Posted on October 14, 2016 at 12:30
Hi Kelley, By chance do you have any connections with the Leicester Records Office? My friends, while playing as young girls in the 1950's (see my 'Monty Bird blog' on BPH) found many glass plates of the Victorian photographer, the Rev. Montague Bird - which were donated originally to Leicester Museum in 1955. I am working closely with his Son (in Zimbabwe) and his granddaughter (who I contacted via the BPH site!! ...... and have provided them with Monty's and his father (John's) biographies - which entirely by destiny were entirely coincidentally Published by a friend of mine!) We have ALL contacted Leicester Records Office BUT they deny now having the Glass Plates - which is unusual because they had them a few years ago.
I have taken high resolution scans of about 40 Glass Plates that my friend still has - with the intention of archivally preserving the original images, and importantly providing 'Monty's family with copies of the images (some of which are of 'long gone' Victorian family members).
If you have any contacts with the Leicester Records Office - could you possibly also make enquiries to locate the remaining Glass Plates .......... so we can digitally preserve those too (via the Loughborough Library (my Grandfather was the Librarian there (living in the Library House) from 1920 until his death in 1953).
Many thanks............. in anticipation.
Alan. (Diseworth village, Leics). Contact via BPH or am.preston@btinternet.com or Derby: (01332) 810121
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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