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Have you ever tried to look up what's on the site www.archive. org ?
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BJP and the missing years and more
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I have been working on building a database of early photographic works, been doing this for about a decade.The database is currently running off of a thumb drive and is pushing 75GB. The database is…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Krzysztof K. Slowinski Aug 5.
The Walrus and Lantern Slide Shows
I've been working on my memoir, Light Writings, which is semi-memoir and personal essays. I've always been hooked on trivia that has a "Gee, that's interesting aspect to it."I was doing some more…Continue
Started Feb 20, 2018
The first person to make a fixable photograph
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W.J. Harrison (A History of Photography, 1897, Percy Lund Country Press, London) in 1895, wrote this in his article: Anthony's Photographic Bulletin 1896, pg…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Richard Sullivan HonFRPS Oct 23, 2017.
The Pilot database
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The Pilot DatabaseI’ve been giving some thought to this and would like to discuss the possibility transferring ownership of my database to some organization. This would be a free donation, if you…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Richard Sullivan HonFRPS Aug 28, 2017.
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"Hello Richard,
Congratulations on pursuing the incredible task of digitising the BJP's. I did once attempt a pre-WW1 volume & gave up defeated!
I have the BJP Almanac for 1886. Not in great shape, many pages are loose, but as far as I know…"
BJP and the missing years and more
I have been working on building a database of early photographic works, been doing this for about a decade.The database is currently running off of a thumb drive and is pushing 75GB. The database is indexed and is searchable via Regex searching. Being indexed, it is fast. All of the books are locally on the drive itself.Everything is prior to 1923 with the exception of a handful of books that were not renewed and are deemed to be public due to the Stanford Database.(Renewals, for many years…See More
"Try this, it looks fairly complete Extracted%20pages%20from%201920%20Camera%20Craft.pdf
--Dick Sullivan"
"Peter Plamquist
Photographers
A Sourcebook for historical research
Has some city directories for Manchester of that period.
--Dick Sullivan"
"I have hits on Hugh Owen in my database:
K:\!My Projects- Inc Writings here\!Pilot DataBase\#Pilot1\DocFetcher-1.1.18\..\MASTER LIBRARY\300) Photography Journals\Photographic Art Journal\1851 Vol 2 1851 The Photographic Art journal.pdfK:\!My…"
The Walrus and Lantern Slide Shows
I've been working on my memoir, Light Writings, which is semi-memoir and personal essays. I've always been hooked on trivia that has a "Gee, that's interesting aspect to it."I was doing some more research on W.L.F. Wastell, FRPS, who was an accomplished photographer in his on right, but wrote a column under the pseudonym of "The Walrus" as well.One aspect of photography that has not been resurrected in the modern era like platinum, or tintype is the lantern slide. Thankfully!Being now in my…See More
Portrait Study Image from 1898 The Penrose (1)
"Extracted%20pages%20from%201911%20The%20British%20Journal%20of%20Photog%20Russell%20and%20Clifton%20Process.pdf
This is a mention of Russell and Sons being the sole licensees of the Clifton Pigment process and a Photo-Miniature description of the…"
"It seems most everything is under Russell and Sons. I was able to get more hits without the stupid Son's with apostrophe and using a proximity search of "Russell" within 6 words of "Sons. " Eliminating And "&"…"
"From what I can determine James is the father and John is one of the sons, thus Russell and Sons will provide some information.
This extract from 1879, Pritchard's Studios of Europe is about Russell and Sons in Worthington, a short hop from…"
"There are 5 references to a John Russell within 6 words of "Tuffnel." Note that there is twop "f's here and one in the rps fellowship registry.
It is however on journal I do not have"
"There is a Lord John Russell lurking about in the mid-19th century.
One mention is included in this dissertation.
FRAMES BEHIND THE THRONE:CONTEXTUALIZING THE CALOTYPE ALBUMS OF PRINCE ALBERT 1850-1859BySherri Sorensen-ClemB.F.A., Printmaking and…"
"Extracted%20pages%20from%20Process%20of%20Photo%20Illustratopn.pdf
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I've included an index of hits in my database. It will take some time to extract them. There is an early history of photography in Birmingham included…"
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Research: My Big Project (Fixed)
The following is a rough draft describing my latest project, well late, as I have been working on this for quite a few years now. I would appreciate any comments you may have as I eventually, by year's end, to put it on the market. I hope I am not violating any rules here due to this being a commercial project, much the same as a book might be.
I get the sneaking suspicion…
ContinuePosted on August 3, 2016 at 19:30
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- At 22:32 on August 10, 2016,
David H Davison said…
Hi Dick,
That is probably the general impression seeing as I have lived here for seventy years but I am in fact a Yorkshireman who possibly is relatively unusual in having no Irish ancestry.. I did however have an Irish stepfather and that is how I ended up in this country.
All that aside, I wanted to say that you do not deserve a medal for this gargantuan contribution to photographic research but in fact a whole chestful of medals. I knew you were doing this work as I remember you copying material when you were here with us but I never imagined that it could be so all-encompassing. I am overwhelmed with admiration and cannot imagine how the photo-historical world can thank you sufficiently, not even a bar on your Hon FRPS, in military terms, would seem enough to me. Perhaps the RPS could strike a special medal?
I suppose the next stage is to find out how to access the material.
Incidentally my Fourth Earl book is getting close to publication, it would be great if you could be back at the castle for the launch which I hope will be next year.
Congrats again,
David.
- At 7:05 on August 1, 2016,
Michael Pritchard said…
There is no family connection, sadly.
Michael.
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