Victorian Humour on Cartes de Visite
This article looks at the various ways that cartes de visite used humour – intentionally and otherwise.
The article was first published in Photographica World, the magazine of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. For more details about the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain, please visit http://www.pccgb.com
An Introduction to Dating Cartes de Visite
This article looks at some of the clues that help to date cartes de visite and cabinet card photographs.
The article was first published in Photographica World, the magazine of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. For more details about the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain, please visit http://www.pccgb.com
This article looks at the way that Victorian photographers illustrated their prize medals on their photographic mounts to promote their businesses.
The article was first published in Photographica World, the magazine of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. For more details about the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain, please visit http://www.pccgb.com
Victorian Photographic Studio Backgrounds
This article looks at the many styles of backgrounds and backcloths used in Victorian photographic studios. Some were very artistically painted whilst others were very crudely made.
The article was first published in Photographica World, the magazine of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. For more details about the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain, please visit http://www.pccgb.com
Marketing Victorian Photographic Studios
This article looks at the popular ways that Victorian photographers used to promote their studios and their services.
The article was first published in Photographica World, the magazine of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. For more details about the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain, please visit http://www.pccgb.com
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 looks at Victorian cartes de visite and cabinet cards and how some of them illustrate the photographer’s studio – outdoors and indoors.
The article was first published in Photographica World, the magazine of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. For more details about the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain, please visit http://www.pccgb.com
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 looks at the many types of posing chairs and other posing devices used in Victorian photographic studios. Many were specially designed to change in size so that they suited men, women and children.
The 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 http://www.pccgb.com
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 Photographica World in 2003. Photographica World is the magazine of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain – the club for collectors of all things photographic from around the world.
Three (3) new biographies have been published at ‘Photographers 1840 – 1940 Great Britain & Ireland’
These are three (3) of many more free Victorian Photographer biographies currently published. More are scheduled for publication over the coming months.
A new biography have been published at ‘Photographers 1840 – 1940 Great Britain & Ireland’ .
This is one of many more free Victorian Photographer biographies currently published. More are scheduled for publication over the coming months.
Three (3) new biographies have been published at ‘Photographers 1840 – 1940 Great Britain & Ireland’
These are three (3) of many more free Victorian Photographer biographies currently published. More are scheduled for publication over the coming months.
Three (3) new biographies have been published at ‘Photographers 1840 – 1940 Great Britain & Ireland’
These are three (3) of many more free Victorian Photographer biographies currently published. More are scheduled for publication over the coming months.
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 service by archive staff – cost as follows
1 = £7.00 2 = £13.00 3 = £18.00 4 = £22.00. Thereafter £4.50 per photograph.
The more you would like dated, the cheaper it gets! There is no charge unless photographs can be dated confidently to within a 10 year period.
DATING your photos will certainly help to fit them into your Family Tree
During recent weeks additional content has been added to the Photographer lists, 1840 – 1940, published at Photographers 1840 – 1940. These free listings now include content listed A through to S, with the corresponding data available for immediate download through our e-commerce site. Work continues apace on data T through to Z, likely to be completed this summer 2009.
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 are today (Yellow Pages etc.), designed to allow businesses to advertise their goods and services. They are almost always DATED to reflect the year of publication and can cover a very small area such as a village or a wider area such as a town, city or county.
Good things about trade directories. They
Limitations of trade directories.
From this, we can deduce that
Other ways of dating a photograph
For a general introduction, go to Dating Old Photographs.
Ron Cosens 2009 https://www.cartedevisite.co.uk
During recent weeks additional content has been added to the Photographer lists, 1840 – 1940, published at Photographers 1840 – 1940. These free listings now include content listed A through to N, with the corresponding data available for immediate download through our e-commerce site. Work continues apace on data O through to Z.