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Apologies if this has been posted before. Not British, but I'm sure members will be interested to hear that a trove of photographs of early American suffragists, including prints and glass negatives, has been discovered in a boarded-up attic in upstate New York. The photographer was James Hale, whose photography shop had been next door.
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Apologies if this has been posted before. I've just come across Harvard Library's high-resolution scanning of all of Virginia Woolf's photo albums, covering her life during the years 1890 to the late 1940s (continued by Leonard after her death in 1941). Many famous faces here, including her mother Julia Jackson (frequent model for her great aunt Julia Margaret Cameron),…
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Good evening, Mr. Dore,
Let me thank you for participating in solving the question of a Cambridge photograph of 1907. The resarch supported by the britishphotohistory members has shown that the persons shown at the photograph were members of the Moody Manners Opera Company who gave performance in April 1907.
The room the photograph was taken in is still not identified but I stopped further actions at this point.
With regards,
Krzysztof K. Slowinski
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww287.html
I agree that chances are the unknown photographer may by well have been "channeling" the poem when the photo was taken. The big mystery remaining is the identity of the maker. The print has the distinct "cool" quality of a developing out salt print rather than the warmth of a straight p.o.p. salt print. Perhaps it was taken and/or printed by Thomas Sutton?
BTW... It occurred to me that the 19th century photographer would have to have taken the image on terra firma, so I have written to the gent who took the contemporary photograph to ask him for any info that might help confirm that the two photos are of the same location. Stay tuned!Hi Jonathan, Thanks so much for your reply. For the benefit of other readers following this blog I am adding a link to "The Prelude."
http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww287.html
I agree that chances are the unknown photographer may by well have been "channeling" the poem when the photo was taken. The big mystery remaining is the identity of the maker. The print has the distinct "cool" quality of a developing out salt print rather than the warmth of a straight p.o.p. salt print. Perhaps it was taken and/or printed by Thomas Sutton?
BTW... It occurred to me that the 19th century photographer would have to have taken the image on terra firma, so I have written to the gent who took the contemporary photograph to ask him for any info that might help confirm that the two photos are of the same location. Stay tuned!
http://www.nickt.co.uk/naturalworld/index.php/2012/05/05/a-weekend-...