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I recently purchased a Billcliff large format field camera with a Ross lens, dated between 1875 - 1890, and I am trying to gather as much information about the camera and the maker as possible. I have posted photos and what I've been able to
Read more…Does anyone have any interest in the history of the Leica Postal Portfolios that started in the mid to late 1930's ? Were these portfolios one of the first widespread uses of the "miniature" camera ?
Regards
Kelvin
Read more…I have been trying to bring up to date Treadwell's catalogue of William England Views of Switzerland (Alpine Club). If anyone is interested, the latest version is listed at the following web address:
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I am writing a PhD research proposal on the topic of visitor's photography at heritage sites.
Within this field, I'm currently looking for books/sources that I can quote from on the topic of why people feel the need to acquire their own images of s
Read more…I am looking for biographic information about the photographer Horatio Agius (1840-january 1910) who had worked in Malta around 1858 to c.1868, exhibition of London 1866.
Sources : "Collection Bonnemaison : panoramas",1989. - http://ca.geocities.com/
Read more…Hello all.I visit seldom - would like to see more pictures and at a more generous size. Talking about a site devoted to british Photographic History.
I would like to tell a story which shows perhaps why Ifor is a legendary teacher.
We was neari
Read more…Hi! I've tried to order some Secol (http://www.secol.co.uk/) archival protection sleeves, but apparently they do not ship to foreign destinations (or at least not for small quantities...). Can anyone please inform if they have a sales point in London
Read more…Hi! Would anyone be so kind as to recommend one or two shops / dealers of antique photographs in London? I will be there in approximately one week, and would like to search for 19th century images of Portugal or Spain. Thanks beforehand, Jose.
Read more…The perennial problem, pressure on space, forces the reluctant disposal of about 325 Sotheby's and Christie's London and New York catalogues covering four decades - almost but not quite a run, but a research treasure, nevertheless. Please contact me
Read more…This set of half steroes is titled 'American Civil War - Ruins of Richmond, Virginia, 1862.' However we have a second identical set marked 'Ruins of the Fire in Chicago.' Can any-one confirm which is correct and give any other information such as th
Read more…I am seeking information on the Welsh Salon of Photography which was started in Cardiff in 1914. I believe their were 4-5 salons in the first 10 years (1915, 1919, 1922, 1925 ???) and i would be interested in any information - catalogues etc - about
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I am presently starting my research about photographic associations in XIX / early XX centuries. In fact, it is my intention to focus it in one of the oldest associations of Spain (Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya founded in 1923).
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I writing a PhD dissertation on the autochrome in England. I have two question I would appreciate some help with:
- In an article from the BJP 1907, F. C. Tilney writes about the "plain biograph picture". This may be a language problem (I
In an historiographical essay in his recently published book on The Gernsheim Collection, Roy Flukinger refers in passing to Gernsheim's association with the so-called Combined Societies The Combined Societies - established at a meeting in Cheltenham
Read more…I am looking for information on any British photography exhibitions, between the early 1940s and the late 1960s.
I would be grateful for any leads.
Read more…Hello from "across the pond"! I'm a photography collector who recently purchased four albumen photographs that have a blindstamp to the mounts that reads; "S. S. Soley / Photographer/Gloucester". The photos are circa 1860.
On the back of one of the
Does anyone one know in which publication the article by Gerry Badger entitled "On British Photography, Some Personal Thoughts" was first published?
I assume it was the BJP in 1978 but can't be sure.
Any more precise information would help me greatly!
M
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I have a small a box of late Victorian / Edwardian glass negatives and positives, and in amongst them are 13 colour positive glass slides. One is clearly an Autochrome, but the other twelve are made with a process that I am unfamiliar with.
At firs
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I'm trying to get all the SV that William England made in the Valais - Switzerland.
As you may already know, W.E. has been two times in this Swiss part (1863 and 1865).
At this time, and with the help of some of you (Peter Blair, Graham Wood
Read more…I am trying to complete the listing of the titles of stereoviews made by the London Stereoscopic Co of the 1862 London Exhibition , and would ask if anyone has the titles for the following numbers in the series , please contact through the British
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