As a part of a wider photo history project I am interested in the characteristics of these type of glass plates, sometimes also produced as flexible films. They were introduced from 1895 but were in production in various forms for decades.
I have som
Read more…Hello, I have come across a hand coloured CDV in our museum collection (Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand) which has a handwritten credit on the verso. I think it reads: 'Mrs Browning / Photographist / & Colourist / 14 Pollock Street / Glasgow'.
Does
Read more…I have recently acquired a glass plate negative by W E Debenham (Regent St London & Massingham House, Haverstock Hill).to add to my collection of Debenham photos The plate show the photographer and address details at the bottom.
I always thought the
Read more…If you are looking for a property and a "project", you could become (like us) the owner of a former Victorian photographic studio!
The property in question is the former studio of Henry Hayman, at 20A Church Street, Launceston, Cornwall. Hayman had s
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I am looking for any information that you may have on Edmund Wormald. A well regarded and influential photographer who had his own studio in central Leeds.
I am especially interested in the period between 1867 - 1888. This is where the trail
Read more…Of the many thousands (I believe that is no exaggeration?) of photographic studios that were established in the UK in the Victorian era, how many have survived to this day in a recognisable form?
As the owner of one such studio, I have been researchi
Read more…I've just published a blog post about this collection of motor sports images that I bought at auction of and by Bill de Selincourt ( 1921-1994). They are from the early 1960s ( a few from 1959) and include pictures that Bill must have taken at Grand
Read more…Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone has come across Byrne & Co, 'Late with Hills & Saunders' Photographers to the Queen, Hill Street, Richmond?
They'd have been active around 1870. Ideally I'm hoping their archive has landed up somewhere!
Thank you
Read more…Does anyone know the location of a print of Marcus Sparling's image of the Crimean Banquet held in Dublin in October 1856? I have found reproductions of it but am interested in seeing an actual photograph. Thank you!
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Ive been carrying out some family research and Ive found a photograph and I'm really struggling in finding out when the photographer worked. I've looked at so much info on the internet but so far Ive only found one small article about him.Th
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I'm trying to get hold of a copy of an article from the BJP's August 1982 issue. If anyone happens to have a copy of that magazine I'd be incredibly grateful if you would scan me a few pages from it.
I'd normally try and find it in an archiv
I've been making my own silver gelatine glass plates and am exploring ways to print and present positives.
I'm intrigued by historical orotones such as the ones produced by Edward S. Curtis in early 20th Century.
There are a few contemporary techniq
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I was unaware of your discussion forum and having only joined and approved last night, having a skim around the topics, blog and articles I can see me winding away more time here over the coming days and months, so thank you to the site manager f
Read more…Hi! I haven't been able so far to identify the little person pictured in this CDV (ca.1864/5 according to the back design). I would be grateful for any hints. Thanks!
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On my computer I have a quote, supposedly from Nadar, that I copied from somewhere nearly 20 years ago. I want to use it in something I'm writing but I can't find a source for it. Googling it only brings up a handful of matches, all of whi
Read more…Just to let you know that registration to attend this weekend's free online event 'A Celebration of Stereoscopic 3D - Part the Second' ends tomorrow (Thursday 18th February 2021) at 12:00 GMT.
Details about the event and registration can be found at
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in 2018 I`ve purchased an autograph Album dating back to the year 1862. Yesterday I flipped through the Sarah Dobbs`s autograph Album and it came to my attention that there must have been a Card de Visite laid into the Album which is now lo
Read more…I'm looking for any information about the photographer Amanda M. Genung who, with her son Charles, spent a couple of years in Hong Kong taking portraits. She may have left California to avoid an abusive husband who had followed her from the east coas
Read more…I’m researching studio photographers Arthur Louis Jacub of Liverpool and Solihull and his brother David Walter Jacub who had a studio in Wrexham, both from 1880s until around the 1930s. Any snippets of information would be great, photos taken in thei
Read more…I’m researching studio photographers Arthur Louis Jacub of Liverpool and Solihull and his brother David Walter Jacub who had a studio in Wrexham, both from 1880s until around the 1930s. Any snippets of information would be great, photos taken in thei
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