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Frederick Scott Archer's birthplace.
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I have been looking into the available documentary sources for Archer's life.It has been widely reported that he was born in Bishop's Stortford howeverArcher gives Hertford as his birthplace in the…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Marcel Safier Jun 19, 2010.
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Seán Antony MacKenna commented on John Bradley's blog post Interesting stereoscopic image of early photographers.Seán Antony MacKenna replied to Gavin Maitland's discussion Seaside Tintypes:"Yes, you'r welcome to use this for your research.
Seán"
Seán Antony MacKenna replied to Gavin Maitland's discussion Seaside Tintypes:"Sorry, I forgot to give the dimensions of the above.
The mat is 5" by 3 1/4", the tintype is 2 3/8" by 1 11/16".
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Seán Antony MacKenna replied to Gavin Maitland's discussion Seaside Tintypes:"I am avid collector of mid nineteenth century positive images, ambrotypes and tintypes, but recently saw this tintype on ebay and bought it as an example of how long this technique continued. The 'modern' dry plate tins never seem to have…"
Seán Antony MacKenna replied to Gavin Maitland's discussion Modern Tintype photography:"I have been practicing the black art for some twelve years in North London and am always happy to demonstrate the process.
See my web site for my email address"
Seán Antony MacKenna replied to Jose Manuel Martins Ferreira's discussion Where to buy Secol protection sleeves in London"Silverprint, 12 Valentine Place, Waterloo, SE1 8QH sells Secol sleeves over the counter and by post."
Marcel Safier replied to Seán Antony MacKenna's discussion Frederick Scott Archer's birthplace."Hello Sean, I am pleased that all this new research is being done into FSA and I was very impressed by Stefan Hughes' work in this regard that you refer to. I have copied a similar reply to this one to his own posting on this blog. For the…"
Seán Antony MacKenna posted a discussionFrederick Scott Archer's birthplace.
I have been looking into the available documentary sources for Archer's life.It has been widely reported that he was born in Bishop's Stortford howeverArcher gives Hertford as his birthplace in the 1861 census.His newly restored tombstone reveals that his father, Thomas Archer was "formerly of Hertford"Dr.Stefan Hughes has also generously made his research into the history of the Archer family available.Much of this evidence is presented on my recently amended Frederick Scott Archer web site:…See More
Seán Antony MacKenna replied to Hartmut Wettmann's discussion William England Stereographs"Dallmeyer's stereo cameras of the 1860s are sold as having the capability to have the stereo lenses removed and replaced with a Triple Achromatic Lens No.1, this was a 7", f10 lens and would have produced a wide angle image.
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