I would be very pleased to be put in contact with anyone who has detailed knowledge of the Eastman stripping film (AKA American Film) that became available in 1885. I research principally into the very beginnings of motion picture technology 1880-18
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I am currently restoring this fantastic tailboard camera, previously held by a museum. as technical minded as I am I have little information to aid me on this camera, due to lack of publication on the use and operation of this camera.
Does any
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I have been hunting many cameras that are associated with historical images, for a major project in completing my Masters. The idea is finding out what we are forgetting or have forgot in the digital age. In fact I have selected the foll
Read more…Hi everyone, I am a volunteer for the Gwrych Trust and I am searching for anything relating to it; Photographs, video, sculptures, literature, postcards, brochures, guides, newspaper clippings, paintings etc..
Gwrych are looking to restore the castl
Read more…I have recently added a BLOG on my Victorian photographic Background stand that is connected to the Ernest Dyche collection in Birmingham library. www.gullachsen.com/blog - please check out if interested.
Read more…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.
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