The rather imposing looking reception area, which may well show Albert's wife Ethel behind the reception desk. She ran the day to day support side of the Hampstead business, “Ethel’s involvement in the business is further indicated in 1928 her talk to Institute of British Photographers, entitled ‘A Talk on the Reception Room”. The journal describes thus “ in the course of a talk on the reception room Mrs Ethel Elsy showed herself to be brimming with tactful and sales-making ideas in dealings with sitters (The British Journal of Photography, May 18, p.295-297)”Excerpt From: Simon Elsy. “A Photographer in the Early 20th Century/ AE Elsy .iba.” iBooks.
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