The Photographic Field Club was founded in 1865 but it existed under various forms prior to this date, its aims were to bring landscape to a prominent position in photography. It is not clear when it closed or merged with any another Society.(thanks
Read more…For a new photographic history book on British photography (my 49th photo history text) I am trying to find information on the cameras that took the ambrotype and tintype British seaside and street photographs of the 1870-1910 time period. Supposedly
Read more…The Press described him as “a fluent, rapid speaker, of extreme Radical views, verging on downright Socialism… He is, however, out of politics a genial, though excitable man, but very suspicious of the motives of those opposed to him”. He was a sharp
Read more…Two photo history related news items from Kew - a new book and a request for help with a research project.
1. New book: "The story of Kew Gardens in photographs" - http://shop.kew.org/books-dvds/kew-in-pictures.html
Having worked at Kew for 19 years
Read more…I am researching Lady Rose Caroline Graves Sawle who lived at Penrice House, St Austell and want to find her photographic work.
In 1908 she privately published “Sketches” from her diaries between 1833 and 1896 in which she recounts her visit to Egypt
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I am currently in search of any papers that may relate to the Dry Plate Club that was established in 1872 by Col. Henry Stuart Wortley, with the Archbishop of York as the vice president. I have seen the club mentioned in articles for the
Can anyone help to identify the author of this portrait of Camille de Polignac, the future major-general in the Confederate States Army, as a young man in the uniform of the French 4th Hussars during the Crimean War?
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last year I bought an album containing handwritten poems and some photographies. The first dated entry within the album is 22 Jan 1862.
Please help me identify this pleasant elderly gentleman.
Thanks and kind regards,
Rebecca
My mother's father was in the Indian Civil Service, and both sides of her family had long connections with India. After my parents' deaths, I found in a drawer an album containing about 20 albumen prints of ruins from the Indian Mutiny in Lucknow an
Read more…Firstly, a long shot ...but I do not suppose anyone on here bought lot 375 earlier this week from Lawrences auction House (10 Union Cases) ...
Secondly, does anyone know of either bricks and mortar shops or online sites that have Union Cases for sale
Read more…Dear friends of Art Blart. A call for help!
Just putting this out there in the ether of the cosmos because you never know, its spirit might hear you.
I am looking for a research fellowship or postdoc work in photography anywhere in the world.
After m
Read more…After the US entered World War I, at least some commercial photographers donated used glass plate negatives for use in gas masks and aviation goggles. Did this also occur in England? Is there a contemporary source?
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I recently acquired an L.W. Kranz lens but have no good idea of what I really have. Examples of other lenses by this maker I found on the web have a number engraved either above or below the maker's name, but the one I have does not. It's 14cm tall
Read more…I inherited a carte de visite by Oscar Rejlander and wanted to find out more about the photo. Do you think this is just a copy of one of his popular photographs or something that was created specially for the people in the picture? The back of the CD
Read more…Does anyone know where there is a copy of Jabez Hogg's anonymously published pamphlet Photography Made Easy. A Practical Manual of Photography from 1843. There are plenty of copies of the 1845 rdition, but I can't find the first edition.
Read more…Hi! This is my first post! I need help in identifying the photo-studio where this photo was shot, probably 1907, or very early 1908, when the tyrolean giantess -- Maria Fassnauer -- was touring the UK.
In the bottom right corner there is a signature
Read more…Can anyone point me to a source of information about the publisher / photographer J. Kuhn in 19th-century Paris? I've just bought a huge albumen print of a cathedral interior, and can't find which it might be in any of the standard UK, US, or Irish a
Read more…I found a watkins Eikronometer and am trying to find info on the watkins factorial development method. Would like to know if there is a museum or anything near where they were made that might have information...
Read more…Can anybody help me with the confusion over Isaac West Taber and Isaiah West Taber - Are they the same person?
I am researching East London Photographers and am looking for details about the Taber Bas Relief Photographic Syndicate Ltd, which was at S
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