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Comment by KEVIN CASHA on June 25, 2012 at 14:40: Thanks Marcel. In fact know all about those maltese photographers. Although I would be interested to see the one of Mrs Conroy as I have very little on her.

regarding th Ellis collection, that is one of the best and excellently catalogued collection available in Malta. It stretches back a lot and is of particular interest to those interested in pictures associated with the British services and navy in Malta.

Comment by Ron Cosens on June 25, 2012 at 14:39: Manuel. Welcome. What is you main interest in cdv? I collect UK and especially DATED cdv/cabinet cards.

I have Portuguese cdv by Fillon, Fritz, and Rocchini. Also probably others as well. I also have LOTS from other European countries. All for swaps (preferably) or for sale. Do contact me on ron.cosens@btinternet.com if you are interested. Regards , Ron

Comment by Bob Peyton on June 25, 2012 at 14:28: I have a beautiful album with over a hundres CDV's form England including Queen Victoria and her family. It looks as if they were from 1855 to 1900. I would love to know more about it.Bob Peyton

Comment by Marcel Safier on June 25, 2012 at 14:06: Manuel, Thanks for joining the list. I have just a few Maltese cdvs by these photographers but would have others not yet catalogued:

Formosa Giuseppe Lorenzo, 86 Strada Teatro, Valletta
Mrs Conroy, 56 Strada Stretta, Valletta
Richard Ellis, 43 Strada Stretta, Valletta

I know about Ellis (for those that don't know his work, Google his name and see stories such as tinyurl.com/richard-ellis) but Ron Cosens and I are interested in British photographers, including those that worked in Malta and Maltese photographers that worked in Great Britain, if you would like to exchange information. Cheers! Marcel

Comment by Manuel Magalhaes on May 22, 2012 at 16:49: I became to be member of this groupe CARTE DE VISITE. I have some cartes de visite from portuguese photographers (and some from other european nationalities) and I go to put some of them "on line" in the groupe.

Comment by James Morley on January 9, 2012 at 15:03: Hi, I just posted on the main discussion a request for information about Ealing photographers, but I now realise it would probably be better placed here. See http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/forum/topics/reasearching-early... and my blog post and example images at http://www.whatsthatpicture.com/2012/01/early-ealing-studios-photog...

Ron, I was about to drop you an email about this ...!

Comment by Jimmy Leiderman on November 29, 2011 at 23:47: Glad to be here and hope to contribute.

Comment by Marcel Safier on November 28, 2011 at 21:27: Anne McCauley's two books "A.A.E. Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph" from 1985 and "Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris, 1848-1871" from 1994, both published by Yale Univ Press are excellent resources for carte de visite history.

Comment by Marcel Safier on November 22, 2011 at 13:37: Three of the best websites for regional photographic history in England are Brett Payne's Photographers & Photographic Studios in Derbyshire freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/photos/dbyphotos.html and Dave Simkin's Brighton Photographers 1841-1910 www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Brighton-Photographers.htm and Sussex PhotoHistory www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/index.htm. All three sites feature plenty of carte de visite and cabinet photo scans and details of photographers that made them. Cheers! Marcel

Comment by Marcel Safier on November 21, 2011 at 21:24: A new biography of cdv photographer Aaron Vandyke by Ron Cosens has just been published on line at www.cartedevisite.co.uk/photographers-category/biographies/aaron-va.... Aaron was the partner in Vandyke and Brown of Liverpool. The article features 27 scanned examples of cdvs from his studios.