Day Books
Hello everyone. I am interested in purchasing Day Books of London photographers particularly of the years 1886 and 1900, If anyone has any please contact me. Thank you.
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Help identifying Ship &/or Photographer. (Now identified-Thank You)
Trying to identify ship and/or photographer. Maybe the initials are the photographer. "J T 1858". Not even sure it's an English ship. Print size 20.5 cm x 15.8 cm.
Read more…Underwhelmed by The Photography Centre at the V&A?
I visited the Photography Centre at the V&A on Tuesday, assuming that it would be like most other collections in the V&A, absolutely top class and outstanding, but have to say I was very disappointed. The history, and the technology, of photography
Read more…Magic Lantern Lens.
Hi, I have a large 6" Brass Magic Lantern lens, but I can't find a Manufacturers name on it. There is a Trade Mark on the front and it says London Made and Established 1816. I wondered if anyone could tell me the company it belongs to. Thanks in adva
Read more…ZI Kolibri with unusual shutter.
Hi, I've just aquired a ZI Kolibri with a Tessar 5cm f3.5 lens Ser No S46649. My query is that it has a Balda Compur Rapid shutter with a top SS of 1/500. I've searched and can't find any info on a Zeiss Ikon Kolibri with this shutter fitted. I would
Read more…Practical Photographer 1895
Hi, I am researching a local photographer and in a local newspaper have found a report which says that there was a competition for Best Arranged Studio in the Practial Photographer magazine which was won by Arthur Debenham of Union Street Ryde. The a
Read more…Collodian wet plate process photographer?
Just came across and wanted to share about a guy in the USA operating the old collodian process with his glass plate camera to produce his glass photo scenes ~ Beautiful. The internet is, of course, awash with photographers of varietal sorts amateur
Read more…Help: Dr Reginald Grove / Stereoscopic Society
I'm writing a book about the stereoscopic photograpic legacy of Dr Reginald Grove who was President of the Stereoscopic Society until his death in 1948; this photograph was taken in the 1930's in probably Austria or Bavaria. Can anyone identify the u
Read more…CDV Album with magnifying Glass -- PLEASE -- Who is the French maker "H.S." and what might "P.Photo" indicate on magnifying glass?
Here's a beautiful object, but who made the album and glass?
Help identifying purpose of viewer in the Notman Studio, Montreal, 1865.
It's been suggested this might be a stereoscopic viewer for views about a 1/3 or so full format. Notman did produce child size views of his first 1859 series -- I had a few , now in Library and Arhives Canada.
OR is it a CDV viewer, like one patented
Read more…Dance photographs
Hello, I am a New Zealand historian looking for collections from the 1920s that may contain the work of two photographers/studios: Joe Davis and Walden Hammond. Specifically photographs relating to Jan Caryll and the dancing duo, Caryll and Delyse.
A
Read more…Dallmeyer Studio Camera - information sought
Some time ago I bought this camera. It needs some sort of restoration as its been well used! I can either try to find out what it looked like and rebuild it as it originally was or slide in a 5" x 4" back (easy solution). Originally the space where t
Read more…On early apertures
I recetly took delivery of a Grubb A3 Petzval lens dating to the early 1860s (I know its before 1865 as there are records from then). After cleaning decades of filth from the glass (including an old sticker on the rear element) it proved to have near
Read more…Eastman Kodak Role Film Dating
This roll film from the collection at NT Erddig Wrexham
Does the lettering suggest a date for its production
Read more…Louis Le Prince
Has there been any discussion of Paul Fischer's book, published by Faber in 2022, The Man who Invented Motion Pictures, on BPH or elsewhere?
I'm thinking for instance of any reaction from America from where, in the 1955 centenary celebrations for the
Read more…Identifying Subject in Maull & Polyblank Portrait
Hello Everyone,
I'm cataloging a series of portraits by Maull & Polyblank (active 1854—1865) and am encountering difficulty in identifying the individual featured in the photograph below.
The inscription suggests the name "J. Gourley," yet I've been
Read more…"Suzanne" - Melton Mowbray photographer
Hello, would like to know if anyone has information on a photographer by the name of "Suzanne"
I've seen a couple of imprints on cartes de visite. One has Melton Mowbray below the name.
Both cartes appear to be late 1870s to early 1880s.
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Read more…Maull & Fox, Piccadilly London
I've found a photograph of a C. S. Williams by Maull & Fox in 1875. Do their complete records exist anywhere? I'm trying to establish for certain whether this is Dr. Clement Williams.
Read more…Remembering Eva Grant (1925-2024)
With a heavy heart, I bear the sombre news of Eva Grant’s passing on Monday, 22 January 2024. She was a pioneering figure in the British glamour photography scene of the 1950s and ’60s. A luminary whose lens challenged the norms of such a male-comman
Read more…Photographic dealer called "Pharaoh"
Looking through my grandfather's accounts I see he bought a reflex camera from "Pharaoh" - presumably a dealer or shop. He lived near London so that's probably where the shop was. He paid £18-15-8 on May 25th 1918. The account entry is just "Pharaoh
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