Dear Photography Experts and Enthusiasts:
I am an antique photo novice and recently purchased two antique-looking "reverse glass?" photos/postcards of Antwerp - included in this posting. They are 15.5 x 11 cm in size, colored and seem to have bits
Read more…Hello, I am looking for information on this Photo. 1860's oval albumen, 15 x 10 inches. Does anyone recognize this bridge? Scotland? Wales? I have included a close up of the charming man in the distance reading riverside in his top hat!
Any informati
Read more…I am currently researching the life and work of Isabel Agnes Cowper (1826-1911), the South Kensington Museum's first female Official Museum Photographer and sister of the photographer Charles Thurston Thompson. Cowper lived and worked at the Museum b
Read more…Is any member of this group researching or interested in the activities of Britain’s beach photographers? The Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal of Saturday 12 September 1891 carried an article titled “Yarmouth In August” that descri
Read more…I acquired many years ago, probably from a fair or garage sale, a copy of the seventh edition of 'The Dictionary Of Photography', by E. J. Wall F.R.P.S. publ: Hazell,Watson, & Viney, Ltd. 1897. I was perusing the volume last evening and realised the
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Does anyone know whether the RPS Historical Group photographer listings for different counties, mentioned here: http://www.rps.org/blogs/2013/september/researching-historical-photographers are available anywhere online? I wanted to check o
Read more…This could be a trivia question, but I'm asking it as a serious inquiry. Does anyone know which museum first collected photographs? I'm not looking for the first that exhibited photographs (although that might be interesting as well), but rather whic
Read more…Towards the end of the 19th Century, as competition forced down prices between professional photographers, so some looked for new products beyond the carte de visite, the cabinet and postcard formats and for new markets. Some, perhaps today we might
Read more…I am doing research on British and French travel photographers in Tyrol before 1870. There is also someone called C.E. Goodman who travelled the country in 1858. However, since I found different explanations to the abbreviation of C.E. in the public
Read more…In the Photographs section of the forthcoming Harry Moore-Gwyn British and Continental Pictures and Prints auction on the 28th March 2018 at 25 Blythe Road, there is a small but intriguing group of 19th and 20th century photographs, including ‘Man an
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I am an art historian, currently writing a thesis at Ghent University on photographic details of artworks in art books (published between 1838 and 1940). It's an overall study on the use, appearance and selection of artworks as well as a q
Read more…I was saddened last month to learn of the death of Roger Vaughan (1948-2015), whose extensive collection of Victorian and Edwardian photographs enabled him to create a very helpful array of online material. I had been unaware of his career as a geolo
Read more…I've been working on my memoir, Light Writings, which is semi-memoir and personal essays. I've always been hooked on trivia that has a "Gee, that's interesting aspect to it."
I was doing some more research on W.L.F. Wastell, FRPS, who was an accompli
Read more…Does anyone know what happened to the excellent PhotoLondon site? The URL now points to somewhere on the Museum of London's site. Is the information that was formerly available there now on another site somewhere?
The be
Read more…Does anyone have information on Geo. Moore, who made postcards from photographs of performers? With which firm was he associated? He sent a query to the British Journal of Photography (Feb. 16, 1912) asking how the new Copyright Act (of 1911) impact
Read more…I'm working on a project about the pioneer Birmingham photographer George Shaw, who, it's sometimes claimed, made the first daguerreotype in the city. I am keen to establish details of Shaw's networks amongst C19th photographers and scientists. I'm
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I'm looking for information about an amateur photographer from Sydenham Hill, London named Lazenby (Miss. G.C.), active about 1905–20. I believe she was a daughter of the wealthy manufacturer Walter Lazenby and his wife Charlotte Laz
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My first post regards a mystery -- at least to me.
I purchased this object for a few £'s at a charity shop in Christchurch, England, because: 1) it clearly seemed to have something to do with photography, and 2) I had no idea what tha
Read more…The Museum of London website states - The 'PhotoLondon: Gateway to London's public photographic collections' website is no longer available!!!
Am I right in assuming this is no longer available? I am researching East London and Essex Photographers an
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