Victorian Studio Photographs

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Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in. Crisp white walls and quality laminate flooring in urban grey tones run throughout the space, and the kitchen complements this with glossy white units topped with practical slate grey surfaces. The ceramic hob has been inlaid to these, and the oven and washer/dryer have been fitted below leaving space for a fridge freezer, and the almost full height window fills the space with natural light. The chic bathroom is also separate with a tall, curved cubicle and plenty of storage for your towels and toiletries in the vanity unit below the basin. William Downey senior was William Fowler Downey and he married Caroline Griffiths of Cheshire. They had two sons, William Edward and Robert Ingham (who died an infant). Caroline died in 1874 and William remarried Lucy Lyon in 1877. Their children were Arthur James Hope and Laura Evelyn. A grand old photographer, series of 10 weekly articles in Pall Mall Budget 1 January – 19 March 1891, illus 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.

The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, London: Cassell & Co., 1890–94 5 vols., 4to, with 180 mounted photographs by W. & D. Downey Unfortunately, it is very rare for the negatives and business records of local photographic studios to have survived.Above: Hand-held stereoscope on a stand, American, c.1900. From the Howarth-Loomes Collection at National Museums Scotland. W. & D. Downey were Victorian studio photographers operating in London from the 1860s to the 1910s.

Please arrive at least 5 minutes before the tour commences. The walk will take approximately an hour and a half. This article was first published in Photographica World, the high quality magazine of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain – the club for collectors of all things photographic from around the world. For more details about the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain, please visit https://pccgb.net/

Calotype images are not as pin-sharp as daguerreotypes, but they had one great advantage: more than one image could be produced from a single negative. Yet both processes were cumbersome and very expensive. What was needed was a faster, cheaper method to really fuel the fire of Victorian photomania. Also in 1851, the scientist Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) presented lenticular stereoscopy to the world for the first time, at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London.