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"An historical document, surely, if ever there was one deserving of finding an appropriate archive. "Volume II"? Gosh! So there'll be Vol.1 possibly somewhere with other volumes maybe to wonder about documenting, if not Buffalo Bill…"
"While not knowing anything about the technicalities of the photo production asked about ~ my immediate impression on clicking-on the first portrait picture presented, before the dismantled parts of the framing are then shown below, was that portrait…"
"Would a 'before and after scan' be an archival idea for profile recovery of each print? Just a thought."
" When perusing old photos showing children one is always arrested by how but for the period dress and antiquity of the time of photo, in this case the boy is posed in thigh length stockings and sailor suit with floral Chinese parasol…"
"Auction sale of collectable cameras Keys Fine Art Auctions Aylsham, Norwich on 23rd April starting 10am. See link here for cameras:…"
"Fascinated to learn William Herschel was a noted musician and composer as well as famous for his optics.
What a creative gentleman?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=william+herschel+musician"
"Plate glass negatives are often gorgeously seductive in what they don't quite reveal ~ tempting us with reversed worlds we can barely hold patience to see an old negative give up its positive secret ~ only to then disappoint when 'the…"
"Alvin Langdon Coburn photographed controversially of the time a nude of George Bernard Shaw posed as a Rodin 'Thinker'. Shaw, an amateur photographer and admiring of Rodin's work visited Auguste Rodin to photograph the sculptor. Later…"
"Modern reproduction of say an art gallery's collection of paintings in a book sold in a gallery's shop ~ of postcard reproductions of individual works of art ~ of glossy catalogues attending every exhibition sold lucratively beside the…"
"This looks glorious for the innovatory 'photography' methods to be engaged with that ‘Covid-19 has malevolently thrown light on’. Calls to mind in my street during benevolent Autumn a small Acer tree dropping its maple-shaped…"
"Links to Grace Robertson on the radio...
Grace Robertson: BBC Sounds – Last Word
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rcch
Shift time bar to 11:50 to synchronise to relevant programme section
BBC Radio 4 - Women’s…"
Film: Gandolfi & Sons, camera makers of Peckham, London est. 1885
There's a delightful accessible online 1974 short BBC documentary of elderly Gandolfi brothers of Gandolfi & Sons camera makers of Peckham, London which company had operated in the area for over 100 years. The artisan nature of the skilled brothers at the end of their camera crafting working lives has one of the brothers in distinctive 'artisan accent' poetically and…See More
"Malcolm - I suppose it's inevitable your collection will be 'picked at for its cherries' by interested archives. Will they digitise them? And, if so what do they then do with originals which can, because of a propensity to naturally…"
"Please don't begin to find this thread jaded or tedious - as I have just noted another intriguing oddity among the Hills & Saunders (Harrow School) glass plate negatives for sale on Ebay. I'm sure the little person titled as…"
"Additional useful detail on the the two subjects of the glass plate negatives - Thanks again Dr. Joe Rock.
And, yes the glass plates, from what I learn from present seller, were 'discarded' by Harrow School to a third party from whom…"
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Film: Gandolfi & Sons, camera makers of Peckham, London est. 1885
There's a delightful accessible online 1974 short BBC documentary of elderly Gandolfi brothers of Gandolfi & Sons camera makers of Peckham, London which company had operated in the area for over 100 years. The artisan nature of the skilled brothers at the end of their camera crafting working lives has one of the brothers in…
Posted on December 29, 2020 at 0:00
Information: Boy in military or civilian uniform?
This among an interesting bunch of late 1800s and early 1900s glass plate negatives that Harrow School has offloaded from their archive are now up for sale on Ebay. Is this lad in military uniform, or is he in some civilian gear that, for example, hotels dressed their minions up in? Maybe he's a 'Telegram Boy'. Anyone recognise his get-up?
Thank you…
ContinuePosted on December 13, 2020 at 0:00 — 12 Comments
Barnardo's magic lantern slides for sale on eBay?
A few days ago a batch of Barnardo's magic lantern slides were listed for sale on Ebay. I shared this sad fact on another conversational site. So much archive potential turns up on Ebay as to make one weep. Sellers with a bit of archival sensitivity could well inquire to borough and other archives and offer their sellable treasures in the first instance 'to the nation' either…
Posted on January 29, 2018 at 17:30 — 2 Comments
A 100 year old RP postcard picture dissolved before my eyes?
I thought that immersing a 100 year old+ RP (real photo) postcard in water would assist me to soak off marring patches stuck to the postcard that obscured a particular collectable photo postcard's right side edge. Once satisfactorily soaked 'marring bits' stuck to the photo could be picked off - thus, enabling restoration of my old RP postcard of the famous early 1900s…
ContinuePosted on February 21, 2017 at 20:00 — 1 Comment
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