Recently, I purchased a photo with the following description:
“His Excellency Mr Quo Tai Chi - Chinese Ambassador in London 1930's - large studio portrait bearing full title and description, plus the Lafayette specimen stamp & reference number writt
Read more…I was browsing, for no good reason that I can think of, through the list of members of British Photo History, when I was struck by the number of members living in Scotland’s Central Belt.
With this level of interest in the history of Photography with
Read more…Just purchased online so not yet in my hands! . All I can find at the moment: The HCL Series is probably by William England as an online mention said that a few cards were like mine and of the International Exhibition of 1872. The card on the rightha
Read more…Activists, feminists, socialists, dissidents…what information is missing from the Suffragette story? We're gathering your thoughts for a talk on 21st November:
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Read more…I bought a number of stereo views today , but have no idea who created the views. One is South Australian and I will post separately, all others are British.
One is held by the Getty Museum, and they did not identify the creator.
see http://www.gett
Read more…Perhaps someone might be able to locate a commercial portrait photographer for me. The stamp on a postcard reads “J. ??epper, Photograher (?) Artist, Manchester”. I date the photograph to 1907.
Thanks for your help.
Read more…Does anyone here know anything about the Edwardian photographer William E Gray? I am trying to track down an archive or catalogue of his photos
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I bought this wood block photo at an estate sale in New Jersey, USA. To my untrained eye, it looks like it would be used to make prints of this photo. It is etched in some parts such as the gentleman's face and hair. Would love to hear wha
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I'm hoping someone can tell me about this method of sealing UK ambrotypes and whether it was a common practice or particular to one area or ambrotypist.
As seen in the photo, the ambrotype is totally encased, front and back, in this faux
Read more…This may not be the right forum for this query, but I'm hoping that someone may be able to direct me to the right place to find the information that I want. I have a Carte de Visite photograph of my great great grandfather, taken at the studio of Ro
Read more…I have purchased a number of Brewster style viewers this year, one of the most recent was said to have be made by ICA in Dresden. I have found a few scraps of information about them from the eBay seller and others as well as information from Wikiped
Read more…I added a stereo view by Valentine Blanchard to my recent acquisitions over the weekend and checking my collection last night , having researched him, I discovered another beauty of his I believe in my holdings. Its a view of the Bank Of England. Th
Read more…Hello all. Forgive the novice in the field, but I am looking for biographical information on 19th century photographers, most of them it must be said rather obscure as neither google nor the usual big collections throw anything up...Any advise where
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I'm trying to find historical company records for Ilford. A couple of years ago, a friend contacted Ilford via their website to enquire whether there were any company archives but was told,
"We no longer have any such archives within the compa
Read more…Hello, I am seeking some advice on Muybridge's Mariposa Grove, California photographs which he took in around 1854. I believe he was travelling with Carleton Watkins. I have a mammoth plate albumen photograph of the 'Grizzly Giant', a 6,000 year old
Read more…In an Adelaide, South Australia antique store over the weekend I was browsing their boxes of early British stereo images.
I collect images by Roger Fenton and Francis Bedford in particular. However on this occasion I came across 4 images from a serie
Read more…I am seeking information about stereo views sold by Henneman & Co that have Patent Talbotype
wet stamps on the verso. I have three in my collection, all taken in Paris; one has the shield shaped
stamp with Henneman's 122 Regent Street address, the ot
Read more…A monthly artisan market in the heart of the historic city of Rochester, Kent where I will be showing a selection of photography related items.
Weather permitting I hope to offer visitors the opportunity to make cya
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