Victorian Studio Photographs

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This article traces the many different photographers that occupied this studio continuously in this magnificent Arcade in Bath from 1852 to 1993. These include the humble as well as the famous such as William Friese-Greene. Mailing list discussion and sharing of information regarding the dating of photographs produced by portrait and studio photographers in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland between 1850 and 1950 An exciting development in the heart of the city centre, offered by Brand Vaughan, is this selection of contemporary, newly refurbished studio apartments to suit a range of budgets. You can see Seven Dials from your front door, so you know a fresh coffee or bake is never far away, and with Brighton Station just over the cusp of the hill, you will never be late for the train.

W. & D. Downey (floruit 1863-1910s)". 11 March 2007. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007 . Retrieved 27 October 2022.

David Brewster’s lenticular stereoscope was developed by a number of manufacturers hoping to benefit from the huge demand for the images. Hundreds of thousands of stereoscopic images were sold in a major craze which reached every middle-class Victorian drawing-room. Special cameras were developed to make the images, and a variety of viewers produced to keep up with demand. Portraits, scenery, comedic scenes and images of far flung places were all particularly popular. Please arrive at least 5 minutes before the tour commences. The walk will take approximately an hour and a half. Above: Wet collodion glass plate negative (top) and albumen print of ruined abbey. Photographer and date unknown. How was Archer’s method used? Young" Downey (he was always known as "Young" Downey to distinguish him from his father) was a big man – or so he seemed to me then – with a bald head. He was an artist in his work, and used to say that he always knew the best side of anybody's face after one good look at them. He certainly made some fine photographs of the famous beauties of his time, and possessed the art of retaining character in the face of his sitter... Home - Week ending 12 February 2005 - 386". Footlight Notes. 12 February 2005 . Retrieved 9 September 2022.

In accordance with government guidelines to minimise transmission of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), this property may request additional documentation from guests to validate identity, travel itinerary and other relevant information, during dates where such guidelines exist. One of the most exciting sources of information for family historians are collections of family photographs—lovingly preserved in leather-bound albums or stashed in biscuit tins or shoeboxes.

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Daniel Downey married, on 10 March 1863, Elizabeth Smith Beloe, eldest daughter of William Linton Beloe, a Professor of Music, and had three children, another Robert Ingham Downey, Elizabeth and Victoria Christine. Elizabeth died, aged 40, on 22 September 1873. On 28 December 1876 Daniel remarried. His second wife was Mary née Stratford (died 1948). Daniel died in Bethnal House, Bethnal Green on 15 July 1881.

Mr W. Downey, the Queen's photographer, English Illustrated Magazine March 1896 pp 643 – 652, illus Anyone else who spots something suspicious can always report it to our Customer Service team, so our Fraud team can investigate. Card-mounted photos often bear printed photographer/studio details and we may try to date old photos from studio operational dates found online. This can help, but studio data may be elusive, patchy or too broad to pinpoint a close date for a given photograph. All available evidence should be considered, but often most useful for accurate photo dating are the picture clues, especially the fashions worn by their subjects: clothes, accessories and hairstyles.A grand old photographer, series of 10 weekly articles in Pall Mall Budget 1 January – 19 March 1891, illus The most frequently asked question is: ‘are there studio day books or records in existence that would help me date my family photos?’ Apart from the Silvy studio day books and the collection of J Palmer Clarke in Cambridge 1880s-1930s ( http://www.cromwellcollection.org.uk/ cambscoll/about.html) I am not aware of any organisation holding any British photographic portrait studio day books from the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. Each review score is between 1-10. To get the overall score that you see, we add up all the review scores we’ve received and divide that total by the number of review scores we’ve received. In addition, guests can give separate ‘subscores’ in crucial areas, such as location, cleanliness, staff, comfort, facilities, value for money and free Wi-Fi. Note that guests submit their subscores and their overall scores independently, so there’s no direct link between them.

Above: Box Brownie roll-film camera, made by Eastman Kodak Company, New York, c.1900. This is the first in the series of Eastman Kodak’s Brownie cameras. Made of leatherette-covered cardboard and selling for a dollar, it popularised low-cost photography and over 250,000 were sold. The digital revolution A glass plate is coated with the wet collodion solution containing light-sensitive silver salts and exposed whilst the plate is still wet. Photographs have to be taken within 15 minutes of coating the plate so a portable dark room is needed; however, the exposure time is less than for daguerreotypes and calotypes, making outdoor photography easier. A sharp glass negative image is created that captures microscopic detail. Positive copies can be made from this, usually of albumen prints on paper. These prints are sharper than those created by Talbot’s calotype process and less liable to fade.The British decennial census gives an accurate assessment of the number of professional photographers in Victorian Britain. The 1881 England census lists 4,722 results for ‘photographer’. It is important to remember that early photographers were sometimes listed under different occupational headings. In the 1851 census, for example, you will find records for ‘Daguerreotype Artists’ (from their use of the daguerreotype process). Also, not everyone who worked in a photographic studio was a photographer. You should also consider occupations such as ‘retoucher’ (the person who worked to ‘improve’ glass negatives) or ‘colourist’ (the person, usually a woman, who hand-coloured photographs). Swear words, sexual references, hate speech, discriminatory remarks, threats, or references to violence W. E. L Animated photographs at Windsor Castle 23 November 1896, Lady's Pictorial 5 December 1896, special supplement showing Queen Victoria with her guests including the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia. The word stereoscopy derives from the Greek stereos, meaning ‘firm’ or ‘solid’, and skopeō, meaning ‘to look’ or ‘to see’. Any stereoscopic image is called a stereogram. Originally, ‘stereogram’ referred to a pair of stereo images which could be viewed using a stereoscope. Most stereoscopic methods present two slightly differing images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. These two-dimensional images are then re-combined by the brain to give the viewer the perception of 3-D depth.