would anyone know if the finders that came with the Shew folding strut cameras were supplied with the cameras when purchased or if they had to be ordered separately?
I have an argument going on my fb group on wood cameras that the finders are ma
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Has anyone seen advertisements before 1867 for Mr Wilson's landscape CDVs?
Earlier this year, I posted the acquisition of a watermarked 1862 carte by GWW of Peterborough Cathedral. The logo on the verso is the early one Mr Wilson used and the
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I am the Curator of a small private Collection and Archive at BAE Systems Rochester. The site is the heir to the Elliott Bros (London) Ltd name and we have pictures of the brothers Frederick and Charles Elliott. Rochester Avionic Archives http
Thank you for the membership. I have around 250 studio portraits ranging from 1880s to 1920s and sadly they have become damaged with brown spots for on poor storage I'm in the process of scanning each photograph ( front and back in order to show the
Read more…They were ambrotypists from York, UK at NO. 44, Skeldergate. The image with full label information is in a French-style passé-partout. Is this Henry Dixon? Can you provide any information on this duo? Thanks much.
Best,
Alex
Read more…Thank you for letting me join this knowledgeable community! At the Yale Peabody Museum's Division of Historical Scientific Instruments, we have a very interesting aerial camera (model RK II 300) that Internationale Camera Ag of Dresden made for the G
Read more…Is this a common variant of Mr Wilson's No. 79? I have not seen it published. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston,USA holds a pristine example of this from the Dr Oliver W. Holmes collection [My copy,P1120016.JPG] acquired when it was first issue
Read more…Hi I've just come across some stereoviews and I've got one which seems to date from around the 1840s and looks to be in the Talbotype style its a very early image and the card mount has a blind stamp of PM and i think the wording on the back reads Vi
Read more…Photographs Specialist at 25 Blythe Road, Arnaud Delas has an interesting group of photographs in his next auction on 25th October at 12 noon.
The 14 varied lots coming to sale include topographical, nudes, royal and imperial portraits, Anna Pavlova
Read more…I've been sent an image of a daguerreotype plate that has a stamped mark in the top right corner, apparently very similar to that shown on the Historic Camera web page of Daguerreotype Plate Manufacturer Marks, i.e. "NP: 40." The date and location p
Read more…I came across this photograph while researching an optician, Leslie Henry Fox, who qualified in 1932. The photograph is in the archive of the British Optical Association Museum and the only information they hold is that the photographer was The Pritc
I am looking for information regarding a photographer named John Wood. He was born around 1817 in England and then immigrated to the United States prior to 1857 where he took up residence in the Washington D.C. area. I have not been able to find an
Read more…Some of the reaction against the move of the RPS collection could be described as wishful thinking. The argument that the cost for a Leeds family of 4, of 2 days in London to visit the V and A, limits accessibility is spurious. I have been a supporte
Read more…Lowestoft based freelance press photographer John Dobson was the subject of an article in the "Industrial and Commercial Photographer" magazine in the mid 1960s. Does any member of this group hold an archive of this magazine or could advise me if any
Read more…We have a photograph in our archive that shows a view of the Egyptian Sculpture gallery. It is signed by the photographer. I think it reads "CF Hogkins 1920". Does anyone know anything about this photographer? See attached photo.Egyptian%20gallery.jp
Read more…The Pilot Database
I’ve been giving some thought to this and would like to discuss the possibility transferring ownership of my database to some organization. This would be a free donation, if you will, but only if it would become an active voluntee
Read more…Making Photograms To coincide with my residency at the ROOM, Sheerness Dockyard Church I am holding a photogram workshop on 25th August. Booking is required.
For quite some time I suspected that Mr. Wastell, writing anonymously as The Walrus in his periodic column titled "Piffle," was an American. I believe he was actually British. He died c.1922.
I think the best description of him is he was the Stephen
Read more…J W Newland was an English daguerreotypist and magic lanternist who travelled from New Orleans, through Central and South America, to the Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, England, and finally to Calcutta between 1845 and 1857. Dr Martyn Jolly and Dr
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Is there an industry name for this [see attached] kind of textured surface photographic paper?
I've usually seen it on 1920s and 1930s photographs.
Thanks,
Jim
