Hello, everyone. I maintain the website www.antiquewoodcameras.com and for the past 21 years, I included a webpage dedicated to international camera show listings. I am in the process of updating the webpage for 2023 shows (the first time since 2019)
Read more…Hello, I wonder if there are any old "user manuals" for i.e. the Thornton wooden field cameras.
I am about to restore one which has been abused over the years with several wooden parts broken.
These cameras are a bit complex to set up, especially the
Read more…UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: What Photographs Do: The making and remaking of museum cultures, edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious.
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I am currently researching the photography department of the Coalbrookdale Company ironworks. The ironworks was based in Shropshire and ran from 1709-2017. I believe there was a photographer at the ironworks from at least 1855. The museum whic
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my name is Mr. Ruslan Pashayev and I am wrestling fan Delaware, Ohio of USA.
My post is about images of the champion wrestlers who held Lancashire Wrestling Championship in 1861-1867 at the Copenhagen Grounds, Newton Heath (Manchester, Engl
Read more…Photograph of a gardener holding a hose and doffing to a seated young lady. Here is a man who likes to joke.
Mr. John Arthur Roebuck Rudge - JAR to his friends was a man with a heart and a sense of humour. His first 'film' if it can be called th
Read more…I would appreciate any help you can give to inform my research into the history and production of the Corfield WA67 camera, first marketed in 1990.
The WA67 was designed by Sir Kenneth Corfield, perhaps more famous (in terms of photographic manufactu
Read more…Willoughby Wallace Hooper, who served in the Madras Cavalry, was a noted and notorious photographer of India and British Burma. His photographs of this time are in collections around the world and available online. I am looking for any photographs
Read more…Hi everyone, This weekend is the annual UK wet plate collodion weekend. If you are in the area please feel free to pop in and say Hi and take a look at what we get up to. Saturdays probably the best day as everyone will be set up and shooting. Guys
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I wonder whether anyone could help me better understand this image, from the Horner Collection, Settle (Museum of North Craven Life).
The subject is a Yorkshire photographer, Michael Horner, at work in the field probably mid 1860s, with what
Read more…Hi, I'm interested in finding stories of Sue Davies (Photographers Gallery), I've got the general information, and stories from family but I would love to hear more about her from other perspectives.
I'm not writing a book as such, rather a collect
Read more…Assuming you're bored to tears by the Tory leadership debate and are sheltering indoors from the heat, perhaps you might like to look closely (running any filters and software you have) at the following photos?
Part of my ongoing research into the hi
Read more…I recently acquired a daguerrian era correcting prism. I made a felt adapter and it fits on my c.1850s American Chamfered daguerreotype camera's lens hood. Although conceptually easy to understand, I am interesting in learning detailed information ab
Read more…I am trying to find out in the late 1880s how common it would have been for customers at photographic studios (in Ireland) to have purchased an original negative along with their photographic prints? I know that photographic studios would have often
Read more…I’m currently doing some family research of my great grandfather Claude Harris. I would love to learn more about his work , what cameras he used and also buy some more of his work. I know he had two studios one in London ( 122 regent street) and one
Read more…I bought the following image and could use some help in IDing the location and possibly the photographer.
Anonymous: Boats Stranded by Low Tide. Salt print, 8-1/16 x 10-1/8 in. (205 x 257 mm), 1850s/1850s, unmounted. Reportedly this is an early Engli
Read more…A researcher is seeking to talk to anyone who worked in Grunwick or a similar commercial photofinishing lab in the 1970s, to discover more about the experience, conditions and practicalities of working within such a lab at that time. The research is
Read more…British photographer James Anderson was born Isaac Atkinson (1813-1877), moved to Paris to become a painter and changed his name to William Nugent, and then moved to Rome and took up photography and changed his name to James Anderson.
None of these
I’m researching the photographic paper making company M S Berger and Co who were in Hampstead from the late 1890s until the early 1900s and from 1910, an involvement with the British PhotoPaper Company. Any thoughts on where to search for information
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