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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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