As part of its on-going series of talks looking at collections of photography the RPS Historical Group is hosting Anne Gleave, Curator of Photographic Collections, Archives Centre, Maritime Museum, National Museums Liverpool, who will give an introduction to the Stewart Bale Ltd photographic collection held at National Museums Liverpool.
The collection consists of most of the surviving Bale negatives, around 200,000, principally large format glass and film, along with approximately 4,000 prints and original documentation i.e. order books or negative registers and client registers. The date span and diverse range of Bale’s commissions has left a unique visual legacy of Liverpool’s built environment and industrial, shipping and commercial history during a major period of social change and development. Although principally from the North West, commissions extended nationally. The range of subject matter is particularly well represented in shipping; docks and cargo handling; engineering; architecture; industry; commerce; transport and World War II bomb damage in and around Liverpool. The talk will aim to show a cross section of image content, some details of the firm’s history, the collection and the work that has been undertaken to date to preserve and catalogue it.
Presenting the... Stewart Bale Ltd Collection
8 February 2022
Free, online
Register here: https://rps.org/bale
Past talks are available https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbpBS9KWcBfCfeWAJNybBw15Ps_L3w6gQ
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