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…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.
Pictures attach
Read more…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…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…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
Read more…Does anyone have access to a copy of the March 1924 issue of the British Journal of Photography..?
Read more…Can anyone help identify the photographer of this extarordinary scene at Feltham, dated 7th December 1932..?
Handwritten text on the back reads: "The scene at Feltham Gravel Pit this afternoon where Messrs Henly's burnt many old cars".
Stuck on the bac
Read more…Can anyone advice on related photographic British archives on Cyprus and the Maronites. Monica Bardswell worked in their villages in North Cyprus in the 1930s, George Jeffery as well, but I can find very little about related archives.
Thank you i
Read more…Hi Andrew,
Despite a missing "j" could Rev. John Montgomerie Traherne
of Coedriglan be a candidate? The geography fits as does his
connectIons to the Talbot and Llewelyn families.
Just a thought but lllit Isabella Mary Thomas must trump him.
Read more…Can anyone help provide some more information on a book by Fred Judge - 'Camera Pictures of London at Night' produced in 1924..? I can find very little about it online.
Thank you in advance for any comments.
Read more…I wonder if anyone has come across William Henry De Lan (1844-1905)? He began his career in Bradford and then took to the road with a touring studio heading north. Eventually he ended up in Berwick-upon-Tweed around 1900, where he finally settled dow
Read more…Between now and Christmas I'll be showing my cyanotype photographs and photograms at various events on Kent. Visit www.instagram.com/ajphotoinfo for details.
An 1850s album in West Glamorgan Archives (D/D Vi 3/51) belonged to Swansea landowner Illtid Thomas and and was probably put together by himself and his first wife Isabella Mary. As well as photographs by well-known Swansea photographers John Dillwy
Read more…From my family archives, a small collection of ca 1900 prints. These are on very thin paper and mounted face-down on glass about 1mm thick, so intended for viewing this way, from the other side of the glass. I have never seen anything like this and
Read more…In my continuing research on theatre promotion and 19th century photography studios in the US, I have been investigating the adaptation of photography products for retail advertising. Among the examples here at The New York Public Library are stereo
I am a freelance author in Toronto, Canada, currently working on a biography of Dr. Clement Williams, an army surgeon, British agent, and trader in Mandalay, Burma, from 1861 to 1879. A few years ago the Royal Ontario Museum received 2 donations of
Read more…While on a short holiday on Exmoor, I came across a book by photographer S.W. Colyer called Lorna Doone Country. Published in 1947.
I have done an online search about Mr. Colyer and I found a list of other books such as; Cotswold Country, Unspoilt Dor
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Please help finding some information on the "Goldona" photographic paper, and on its manufacturer John J. GRIFFIN & Sons Ltd. (Kingsway, London) - when founded, how long existed, etc. It was first mentioned in an advertising card in 1908
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