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I have recently resurrected a project I was doing on Alvin Langdon Coburn and have found his grave in Rhos on Sea in North Wales were he lived and died in the 19660s.His grave is rather a mess to say the least and I would like to get it restored or…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Pritchard Aug 1, 2021.
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The Bromoil Circle of Great Britain is compiling a list (at the moment very short) of any bromoil related archive collections in the UK. The secretary Brian Iddon would be interested if anybody has any information relating to the Bromoil Process or Bromoilists were work is held in any institutions,museums,libraries etc.
Posted on May 21, 2018 at 22:00 — 2 Comments
Not a UK institution, but the Sir George Grey Special Collections at Auckland Central Library (NZ) hold a large collection of bromoils by Herman Schmidt (1872-1959).
Thanks for reply.
The RPS collection which was in Bradford & now at the V+A (is not yet open to the public) they have I understand 140 of John St Aubyn prints. They are not listed and were only discovered a few years ago after my inquiry.
There are about 15 prints in Birmingham City Library Archive but I believe this Photographic collection is now permanently closed.
So the only prints you could see at present are the 30 I own.
The Camera Club in London have a small collection of his prints, they are framed I believe.
Hope this helps. Jeremy
Dear Brian
I have been collecting & recording the Bromoil and other images work of John Grenville St Aubyn FRPS for some years. See my web site www.jokphotography.co.uk for a page of some of his images.
I have 30 of his original Bromoil prints & know of the whereabouts of about 175 others in private & public collections. John had over 200 prints accepted in the London Salon during his lifetime and I don't think this number has been surpassed.
I have many personal photographic items of John's, although I never knew him.
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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