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I do a private research on the life of Sarah Ann Dobbs who was born 1839 and lived at the White Hart Inn, Beaufort Square, Chepstow, Wales, which was owned by her parents James and Elizabeth Dobbs. Her oldest brother James Dobbs was a well
Read more…I'm posting an untitled photograph that I suspect was taken in Paris during the Prussian siege during 1870/71. It's one from a stereoscopic pair, and the tones are somewhat faded, but in the foreground can be seen a wooden manual fire pump, together
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During a seminar last week one of my first year students asked whether any of the figures we were discussing as notable early photographers were black. Reviewing them, I note that none was, and that the only name I could recollect from t
Read more…As some of you may have spotted, some glass negatives from the massive archive of the Harrow studio of Hills and Saunders have recently started to be offered for sale on eBay.
The seller is Pete Boswell who acquired the archive a few years ago.
Pete
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This is my first time using this site and i'd like to call on you lovely people to help me understand some items.
According to the sellers, the smaller daguerreotype (the single man) is from the 1840s and the one of the couple if 1850s. I was
Read more…I am currently reading and writing on Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) and have encountered an 1859 diary entry in which Carroll describes meeting the Prince of Wales and telling him about 'the new American process of taking twelve thousand p
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I am a Masters student in the Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management (F+PPCM) program at Ryerson University, researching the career of photographer Minna Keene (1861-1943), considered the first woman admitted as a fellow to
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Firstly, thank you to all the creators and contributors at British Photographic History for this forum.
I'm wondering whether anyone here has heard of the photographer Maud Shelley (1875-1952) who had a studio in Wimbledon from at least the 1
Read more…On it’s way to me is a Houghton Ensign Timber and brass hall plate camera. It was sold by Harrington’s in Australia . I am keen to get more information about this marque and type. I have found some links already.
Been thinking about a wooden tripod t
Read more…I am Co-Director of Red Kite Environment, a company specialising in heritage interpretation. We have a contract to plan and provide interpretation at Penllergare, the historic home of John Dillwyn Llewelyn. JDL was an early pioneer of photography and
Read more…Having moved and finally getting somewhat straight again, I am undertaking some research and looking for some very specific photographs to illustrate this. Amongst them are some photographs taken by Francis Bedford. These were taken in about 1859/60
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The following links are to 3 lots of photographs which turned up as part of a 'downsizing' by one of my clients.
My client is descended from Thomas Carlyle who is supposed to have annotated the Julia M
Read more…This may be a naive question, but I've been unable to find an answer elsewhere online. Could someone please enlighten me about what a "Victoria" is? I assume from this 1872 ad in an American business directory that it is a type of cabinet card, but I
Read more…Hello friends. I feel lucky to have stumbled on this group, as perhaps it will help me solve a mystery!
I am interested in seeing whether any work survives of a photographer living and working in London in 1948. His name was Tom Thomas (so, Thomas Th
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A few years ago I bought at auction a box of darkroom paraphenalia. It was perhaps the most unprepossessing lot. Most of the contents soon went to the rubbish tip, but at the bottom of the box I found a metal container labelled Kodak Sensiti
Read more…AS well as looking for specific Francis Bedford photographs, I am also trying to track down some taken by Vernon HEATH in August 1860 to Endsleigh in Devon. These were exhibited quite widely at the time (London Photographic Society, Photographic Soci
Read more…I am currently researching the life and work of Jane Wigley, the first female professional photographer in London. She produced both Daguerrotype and collodion portraits from her Fleet Street studio, and was active in both London and Newcastle upon
Read more…I am posting on behalf of an archivist colleague of mine, who has a photograph that he is trying to investigate. His question is one that I have never come across. Can anyone help?
"I ran across a bit of a curiosity in the photo line and thought you
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I have a postcard from the mid thirties with a divided back and a placeholder for the stamp and the words POST CARD - Carte Postale printed on the back.
The postcard was clearly not intended for the commercial market. It's a photograph of a
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This is my first post...
Can anyone put me in touch with a photographer who was employed by a postcard manufacturer or else point me to an article or documentary in which such a photographer talks about his working practices.
I collect pos
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