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We investigated this "find" and it turned out that the photographs were all from the Cotswold Company archives, not directly from the Frith archive. The "thousands" of Francis Frith images also turned out to be mostly non Frith images and those that were we purchased to add to the Frith Collection.
Just noticed this post whilst looking for something else. For some time the Frith Collection was in redundancy. I know someone who bought a number of glass plates and his account was that at the time large format plates were used as cloches in the garden. This would have been before 1985 so Birmingham would not have got the complete collection. Would be interested to know if the pub still has these.
This sounds interesting as Birmingham Library acquired the original plates in 1985:
Francis Frith was a Victorian pioneer photographer who established a firm which set out to photograph every town and site of interest in the British isles. Acquired by the Library in 1985, the collection comprises 316,000 negatives and some 4,000 prints by Francis Frith & Co. taken between c1870-1970. This vast collection of topographical views of Great Britain is accompanied by indexes compromising numerical listing of the negatives taken prior to 1939 and an alphabetical list of places represented in the numerical file. An incomplete micro-fiche edition of the archive, arranged by country, county and then alphabetically by town is available.
See: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=...
With the Francis Frith Collection (http://www.francisfrith.com ) presumably retaining copy negs to facilitate the commercial exploitation of the images.
It would be interesting to learn where the couple's negatives fit into this history.
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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