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Hi Bob, It's still up, i just approved it.
John,
What a great pleasure to find a like mind to research this online.
Thank you.
I have not a clue as who the photographer was on mine. I was actually surprised that both mine and yours look a bit better than the Fenton ones. I believe mine may be from 1858-9.
The only information I have is this. I bought this from an eBay seller in Connecticut, USA. He only states that these came from an album labelled on the cover: J. Johnstone, Grenadier Guards.
He has several more from this album for sale, just search eBay for the seller don'tskip. search for "Guards.
i have looked up his sales in the past, and yes, there a re a few Fentons he has sold without knowing... Hmmm.?
This link may help. good luck.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_ssn=dontskip&item=1...
Dear John,
Thanks so much for the information. yes, Hythe makes sense.
I found several photos in the Royal Trust of soldiers at Hythe, taken by Roger Fenton in 1860. I was surprised to find that he trained at the School of Musketry there in 1860. Here is one by him that i think must have been taken in the same spot as both of ours.
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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