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PhD student after your views on searching digitised photographic collections

Hello everyone,

My name is David Croft and I am currently working on my PhD at De Montfort University.

For my thesis I am looking at a new way of searching digitised museum collections for multiple appearances by the same item.

I am trying to use a

Typologies and collections project

I am currently recording images of found and collected items from my past and am looking for a little critical content. My research so far has been to investigate  Albert Renger-Patzsch and Die Neue Sachlichkeit up to the more recent Becher offspring

Modern Tintype photography:

I am seriously interested in learning to make Tintypes in the original way or as close as I can get. Is there anybody on this site who practices the art of Tintyping or perhaps knows somebody that does or maybe even can give me some hints or tips on

Early College Year books with Salt Prints

I am most interested in College Year production with photos in Great Britain using early salt prints. My research summary done on North East of US many yrs ago is on web site listed below.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dickbolt/Colle

Daguerreotypes of British Photographers posing with their camera's??

I am writing books a book on daguerreotypes and one on ambrotypes and need some information.

I believe there are less than a handful of English daguerreian photographers posing with their camera's. Back in the 1970s I was an under bidder on the Jebez

Photography student seeking postcards/photos of Southampton for project

Hello all,

This is my first post after coming across the site in a Google search to find postcard and photograph collectors. Let me introduce myself -

I am a third year student at Solent University studying Photography. For my final year project I ha

Maw of London

I wonder if you can help me please.   I am trying to find out some information about a red box camera which has Maw of London on the front and the wording nustyle deluxe fashion model.  We are assuming the date of the camera is c 1930.    Any advice

Crumlin Viaduct stereoviews

Hello - I have several pages of images from south wales including these marvellous images of Crumlin Viaduct under construction.

It was completed in 1855 so these are early stereoviews of engineering works. I also think the central figure in bottom l

William England still lifes

Hi everybody!

There seem to be a couple of  “still lifes” in William England’s series “Gems of Statuary by Eminent Sculptors”. I know of a skeleton leaves stereo view entitled “Beautiful in Death” and a floral arrangement – “A Thing of Beauty is a

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

I found the attached image on the web attributed to Manuel Alvarez Bravo without any details or title.  The image is similar in style and subject to other images by Alvarez Bravo but it looks a little modern.  Does anyone know anything about it.

Pictu

Identifying a photo

Hello, I hope it's ok to ask this on this forum, but can someone help me identify a photograph? It's a familiar one to me, but I've completely forgotten who the photographer is. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Cormac

Ambrotype - Photograph or Photograph of a painting?

Hi,

I recently added an ambrotype of St Mary's Church Alderley Cheshire to my collection. The glass plate it is on is 2 3/4 by 3 1/4 inches mounted with a matt within a gutta purcha frame. Written on the back is simply Alderly Church. The church is s

Ilford Film - Alfred Hugh Harman

I am looking for information on Alfred Hugh Harman (abt 1841 in Kennington, Surrey, London – 23 May 1913 in Surrey, Sussex), who was a photographer and partner of Henry Dages and founded the Britannia Works, later Ilford Ltd in 1879.

Is anything know

Researching early photographers in Ealing

Having lived in Ealing for nearly 20 years I thought it was about time I did some research on Ealing's early photographers.

I have written up an account of what I have found from some very superficial online searching, just to get the ball rolling. 

Dating an Elliott & Fry Portrait

Hello

I would welcome any help please on dating an E&F portrait.  The attached image shows the embossed logo and the signature below the photograph, and I wonder if anyone knows the dates between which those two items were used together.

John

Elliott

Don McCullin Feature Film

National Trust Collections website now online

The National Trust launched a new collections website just before Christmas.  It claims to currently contain records for some 736,334 items.

The basic search is easy and yields good results, but the real power comes from the filtering that you can ap

19th & early 20th century photographs of Garhwal Himalayas

Hi, I am looking into the history and evolution of old pilgrim trails in the Garhwal Himalayas, India. Would be grateful if anybody could advise me about photographs of this region taken during 19th and early to mid- 20th century. 

Benjamin Foulkes Winks - Photographer

Trying to find information on Benjamin Foulkes Winks (b. 1861 in Islington – d. 10 Mar 1929 in Brentford, Middlesex).He is shown as a photographer in Walthamstow, East London in 1891.

In 1901 as a Manager – Photographic Manufactures in Wealdstone, Mi

Photographic education in 1900

Does anyone have information on where a young woman could study photography in London (probably NW), ca. 1900?  The woman, Florence Vandamm, relocated to New York in 1924, leaving a succesful London career. 

thank you