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On it’s way to me is a Houghton Ensign Timber and brass hall plate camera. It was sold by Harrington’s in Australia . I am keen to get more information about this marque and type. I have found some…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Tony Richards Aug 12, 2020.
I recently acquired this oddity on an auction site. It is made of metal and has Made in England on the base of the card holder but nothing else to identify it's orgins. Anyone have any information…Continue
Started Mar 4, 2019
Graham Wood, who had assisted me greatly (amongst others) has mentioned that there are at least 15 numbered views in the William England commission at Sandringham for HRH Prince of Wales. This…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Stephen Michael Barnett Dec 12, 2018.
Would be nice to put a date to this studio shot and the stereo viewer on the table.I know the image is from Ontario area and the subject was Levi Armitage as that is pencilled on the back.Just…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Steven Evans Dec 11, 2018.
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Purchased yesterday from rural South Australia , a stereo view from a British Commonwealth neighbour, New Zealand.
Having quickly Googled with the information to hand, one of the subjects may well be Sophia Hinerangi…
ContinuePosted on October 6, 2019 at 5:00 — 8 Comments
I received recently a purchase from an online auction site. It is in fair condition but has a very non-standard construction. See my photographs. Part of it seemed to be set up almost as Brewster style viewer with opaque screen and pop up mirror.
Any assistance with country of manufacture, date range for manufacturer, and manufacturer much…
ContinuePosted on August 25, 2019 at 8:30 — 1 Comment
I have become interested in finding images of folk with stereo viewers . I had such an image in my collection for decades and have come across more recently on online sites. Attached is a cdv of a young lady standing along side a column with an album and a Brewster viewer. I sat down in an antique store last week and went through hundreds of cdv cards from…
Posted on November 24, 2018 at 4:00 — 5 Comments
I returned to my one local antique store this week and traded some images I had for scores of English stereoviews. One is easy to identify in terms of place as its written on the back in copperplate "Royal York Crescent, Clifton. Bristol." I wonder if this view attached could be by William Harvey Barton, who was active in the 1860s.
The other view I attached is of a…
ContinuePosted on November 1, 2018 at 4:30 — 3 Comments
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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