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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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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Please can someone tell me where I can buy the type of paper that was used to cover a daguerreotype or ambrotype case? I only require a maroon coloured postcard sized piece if someone could sell me some. I want to mend the hinges on three cas
Read more…I have a 15x8cm group photo taken by JR James Photographic Gallery of Celebrities, Liverpool Road, near the Angel Islington. It mentions several articles 1859-1862 so could date from 1862 or slightly later.
Can anyone identify any celebrities?
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My name is Michaela and I am a PhD student at the University of Manchester doing research into the history of (medical) photography in Cape Town (South Africa) during the first half of the 20th century. I am struggling to find much literature
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I am a photo archivist and researcher at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. I am currently involved in a major project on Norwegian photographic history after 1940, with a special focus on the commercial aspect of Photography in th
With the recent 75th VE day interest a friend sent me a copy of this photo of her mother in the WRNS. It is taken by a French photographer Jacques Lemare, probably in London during WW2. It appears to be a B/W print that is hand coloured. Wikipedia st
Read more…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
