Tabel of Contents
- 1 All Galleries
- 2 Photographing Light
- 3 The Thomas Underwood Gallery
- 4 Drake’s “Picture of Birmingham”
- 5 A Host of Angels
- 6 Tubes Ltd
- 7 Signatures of Artists
- 8 WWI in Birmingham
- 9 Photographs of London by WLFW
- 10 Photographs by AGB
- 11 Photographs by Marion Silverston
- 12 Birmingham
- 13 Paris
- 14 The Royal Family
- 15 Famous People
- 16 Miscellaneous
- 17 Dent’s “Birmingham Portrait Gallery 1880”
All Galleries
All the galleries are listed below.
Photographing Light
Examples of different techniques for photographing light.
The Thomas Underwood Gallery
Selected reproductions from Thomas Underwood's "The Buildings of Birmingham Past and Present Sketched and Described” Published in 1866 and 1869.
Drake’s “Picture of Birmingham”
From Drakes 1834 book featuring twelve “newly engraved” views of public buildings.
A Host of Angels
A group of prints featuring angels, reproduced from Victorian lantern slides.
Signatures of Artists
Signatures from C Hubert Letts “The Hundred Best Pictures" - 1901
Photographs of London by WLFW
We know the photographer’s initials, WLFW, and we know the date, 1910, but that is all. An obvious ‘eye’ for a good photograph.
Photographs by AGB
A selection from a stack of lantern slides by AGB found in a junk shop in Erdington. Those selected look to be from holidays in this country, and the Alps.
Photographs by Marion Silverston
Probably Birmingham’s first female professional photographer. She had a studio in Edgbaston. Her name is written on a number of these lantern slides and they may have been exhibited at Birmingham Photographic Society.
Birmingham
Mostly lantern slides collected at random. The exposure times were a bit too long to get a sharp image of Princess Christian as she left New Street Station en route to open the General Hospital.
Paris
Images taken from French glass stereo-positives. One looks as though it is taken from half way up Notre Dame and has an estimated date of 1855. Image 6 is included for the figure of a man on the roof of the hut!
The Royal Family
The first group are cartes-de-visites of the Royal family taken by Mayall including some dated 1st March 1861. The second group shows the Prince of Wales and the Princess of Denmark, to become Princess Alexandra, and her family. The next group includes the official photograph released for the Diamond Jubilee. The last two photographs are from stereocards of the funeral procession of the Queen and show the German Emperor, the Kaiser, walking on the right of King Edward, and the veiled ladies of the court walking behind.
Famous People
Personalities of the period, from lantern slides, engravings, cartes-de-visites and woodburytypes.
Miscellaneous
A miscellaneous collection picked to show some of the contrasts of the day. The ‘Promenade’ might well be the Sunday afternoon parade at Scarborough.
