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Michael Hocken replied to James Morley's discussion Quest to find old photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew Gardens)

"I have in storage a largish albumen print (which from my recollection I would date to the 1860s) of the Gardens at a clearly still pretty early stage of their development, as most plants visible look newly planted, etc. It is at least ten years…"

Jun 6

Michael Hocken joined Dick Wood's group

Researching British expatriates

A group for people interested in British expatriates who photographed in their adopted countries, or were photographed in their adopted countries.See More

May 23

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Michael Hocken replied to Paul Cordes's discussion NORTH EAST DAGUERREOTYPISTS AND DAGUERREOTYPES

"Marcel, The cartedevisite.co.uk website itself carefully and accurately describes its coverage as being "Great Britain and Ireland", and for the purposes of historical and political accuracy, it would probably be best to leave it at…"

Sep 23, 2012

Michael Hocken commented on Steven Evans's blog post Unidentified Early British Photograph

"See here http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/lgaz/lk01175.htm for some good 'positioning' shots (including an 18thC map showing the boathouse's location near Patterdale). Apparently it since acquired the name The Electric…"

Aug 25, 2012

Michael Hocken replied to Jimmy Leiderman's discussion Elliott & Fry - Copyright Dates in the group Carte de Visite

"A lot of interesting material and images here, and some curious captions indeed. The image of F.E. Guise is captioned "A Neutral Gender", for example. But back on topic, a cursory trawl does seem to suggest that images of seemingly well…"

Aug 18, 2012

Michael Hocken commented on Steven Evans's blog post Unidentified Early British Photograph

"Difficult to make out on screen, but it looks to me that there's a signature or inscription of some sort along the bottom of the image. A closer look with a loupe might be worth trying."

Jun 20, 2012

Michael Hocken joined Marcel Safier's group