Photographers 1840 – 1940 Great Britain & Ireland

Welcome to General News at Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland 1840 – 1940

This is a website about the photographers of Great Britain and Ireland from 1840 to 1940, their photographs, their studios and their customers.

Get information from the world’s largest collection of British and Irish carte de visite photographs and from the results of over 30 years of trade directory and census research.

Extensive information is available on many thousands of

• Photographers from the Victorian era, the Edwardian era and later – up to 1940
• their studio addresses and dates of operation
• their customers (the sitters who posed for them)

The information, much of it unique, is taken from original cartes de visite and cabinet cards in the Victorian Image Collection and from trade directories collected over the last 30 years. Data from other sources such as the UK census is also included on the site.

This site is currently being upgraded. At present, we are able to offer:

• names and addresses of tens of thousands of photographers
• pictures of over 5,000 NAMED sitters who could be YOUR ancestors. The original carte de visite are often available for sale – if not, scanned copies can be supplied
• census and other internet based research into photographers of the past -vital information for family historians with a photographer in the family tree

Shortly we will also be offering:

• a guide to the different types of Victorian photograph and the dates that they were commonly available
• free web pages to descendants of Victorian and Edwardian photographers to display biographical information about their ancestors and hopefully to help make contacts with other long lost family members
• an automated dating wizard so that you can date your own carte de visite or cabinet card on line
• automated lists of photographer’s names, addresses and, where available, dates that they advertised their studios
• help with research projects related to Victorian photography and photographers including scanned images for display or publication
• lists of Victorian and Edwardian and later photographers from specific towns – in booklet form
• many original carte de visite and cabinet cards for sale to collectors

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