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"HI Caroline,
I have not yet seen any Frith early stereoviews of Finchale Abbey. He scatched Frith and a number on the negatives, so if they were Frith they should be readily identifiable.
I am afraid that I can not help you on this but will pass on…"
I have not yet seen any Frith early stereoviews of Finchale Abbey. He scatched Frith and a number on the negatives, so if they were Frith they should be readily identifiable.
I am afraid that I can not help you on this but will pass on…"
Before embarking to the Middle East to take his remarkable series of stereoscopic views, in 1856 Francis Frith toured the UK perfecting his photographic technique. I am attempting to collect these early views and put together a catalogue of titles.…
"Yes - it is a Duboscq Soleil litho copy of a dag stereo that Denis Pellerin kindly identified as "Groupe de Laocoon" - a classical statue that resides in the Vatican. In a DS stereo catalogue published in Feb 1852 it is number 9 on the list.…"
"I have now found images of John Hay junior and they are not similar to the third man in the image, so now I believe that John Hay junior is the photographer. The third man has a passing resemblance to David Hay, the elder brother, however images…"
I have recently acquired a daguerrotype stereoview of Scottish provenance. It shows three men round a table on which is an early Brewster stereoscope, a D&S black and white litho view and possibly a daguerrotype stereo, plus some small tools which…
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I would be pleased to share information about the alpine club photos and others--not that I know a whole lot.
Muriel