Photographers 1840 – 1940 Great Britain & Ireland

NOW AVAILABLE – for carte de visite enthusiasts everywhere. This is the fourth of a series of free articles about collecting Victorian cartes de visite and cabinet cards. There are more articles to follow. Please visit Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland 1840 – 1940 for your free download. Victorian Photographic Studios Illustrated This article [...]

NOW AVAILABLE – for carte de visite enthusiasts everywhere. This is the third of a series of free articles about collecting Victorian cartes de visite and cabinet cards. There are more articles to follow. Please visit Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland 1840 – 1940 for your free download. How Our Unique Photo Dating Wizard [...]

NOW AVAILABLE – for carte de visite enthusiasts everywhere. This is the second of a series of free articles about collecting Victorian cartes de visite and cabinet cards. There are more articles to follow. Please visit Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland 1840 – 1940 for your free download. Victorian Photographic Studio Furniture This article [...]

A new FAQ has been published at www.cartedevisite.co.uk providing a checklist on developing a biography for free publication on the ‘Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland – 1840 to 1914‘ website. There are presently over 30 biographies available.

NOW AVAILABLE – for carte de visite enthusiasts everywhere. This is the first of a series of free articles about collecting Victorian cartes de visite and cabinet cards. There are more articles to follow. Please visit Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland 1840 – 1940 for your free download. This article was first published in [...]

Customised Dating of Photographs  -  service offered through ‘Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland, 1840 – 1940′ We have a lot of experience and data to enable accurate dating of individual portrait photographs from 1840 – 1940. There is a  charge and funds received help with the cost of maintaining the archive. Individually researched photo dating [...]

Using Trade Directories Trade directories are extremely helpful for dating old photographs. They are ONE of the main tools available and will often provide an answer that is accurate enough. However, like most historical records, it helps to understand a little bit about them, including their strengths and their limitations. Trade directories were, and still [...]

Many people have photographs of their ancestors and ask the question ‘Can I find any more photographs of my family by the same photographer?’ or ‘Can I find out the names of the people in my photograph?’. To do this would mean that the photographer’s records need to be available somewhere, especially their day books [...]

In response to suggestions from our users, each page on Photographers 1840 – 1940 now features a user friendly ‘e-Mail this Page’ and ‘Print this Page’ facility. As well as being useful for notifying friends about the site content, and printing pages for your research, you can always e-mail a specific page to yourself to [...]

The FAQ: Old Negatives and Records at Photographers 1840 – 1940 has been updated with three images to illustrate the deplorable state of long forgotten glass negatives.

Welcome to FAQs at Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland 1840 – 1940 Many questions are often asked of us so we thought it would be a good idea to write an answer for everyone to refer to. Through time this will become a large, authoritative resource. Do check it out at FAQ.