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"Mungo Ponton was a fascinating and complex character and Henry Talbot freely gave hi…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Oct 2, 2017 to The first person to make a fixable photograph

 8 Oct 11, 2021
Reply by Peter Domankiewicz

"Dear Dick, What an extraordinary project!  I am all too familiar with the role of p…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Aug 28, 2017 to The Pilot database

 4 Aug 28, 2017
Reply by Richard Sullivan HonFRPS

"This machine-based drawing on marble appears to have its roots in 1847 in The Magazi…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Jul 3, 2017 to Mr Carsoe and his Carsotype photographs

 8 Jul 3, 2017
Reply by Allan Collier

"Dear James, Congratulations on your fellowship - serious work on Hunt is long over…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Nov 11, 2014 to Robert Hunt, A Manual of Photography, 1841

 8 Nov 11, 2014
Reply by Larry J Schaaf

"Julia Van Haaften faced this question in the 1970s when she worked for the New York…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Oct 1, 2014 to R.S. Schultze and Alfred W. Bennett - looking for more information

 7 Oct 1, 2014
Reply by Elizabeth Knazook

"Sharp is proving elusive!  I can confirm that the handwriting and signature on the t…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Mar 28, 2014 to Somerset's first photographer Thomas Sharp

 7 Apr 10, 2014
Reply by Allan Collier

"David Webb's normally excellent PhotoLondon has him as being born in Liverpool in 18…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Mar 25, 2014 to Somerset's first photographer Thomas Sharp

 7 Apr 10, 2014
Reply by Allan Collier

"I fear that I can contribute only trivia about Aaron Scharf.  Starting in the 1970s,…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Oct 17, 2013 to Seeking bio information on Aaron Scharf (author of 'Art and Photography' 1968)

 7 Oct 17, 2013
Reply by James McArdle

"Have you looked at David Webb's excellent PhotoLondon site? http://www.photolondon.o…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Dec 11, 2012 to Sims Brothers - Photographers

 3 Jan 1, 2013
Reply by Paul Godfrey

"Hunt's original manual, as Giles suggests, was his Popular Treatise on the Art of Ph…"

Larry J Schaaf replied Dec 11, 2012 to Robert Hunt, A Manual of Photography, 1841

 8 Nov 11, 2014
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London Photograph Diary

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

Martin Parr Foundation

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

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Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention

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