Old Photographs - Other Resources

Here we will try to build some useful resources which will help with the identificarion and dating of old photographs, in Cambridgeshire and generally.

Personal Recollections - Listen to the Personal Recollections of those involved in the photography business in Cambridgeshire

Post Cards - some information and ideas on real photograph post cards.

Ellis Graber, unsung hero of the real photo post card trade

Sub Carte De Visite Size Portraits - a whole new genre of small portaits

Photobooths - a history and identifying their photographs

Stickybacks Introduction - and see further links below:

Links to Stickybacks and related pages on our other site: www.stickybacks.uk:

• Sub carte de visite size photographs
• Stickyback Photographs
• Stamp photographs
• Stickyback Photographers in England part 1 and part 2
• Stickyback Photographers in Ireland
• Stickyback Photographers in Scotland
• Stickyback Photographers in Wales
• Stickyback photographers in the rest of the world.
• Stickyback photographers, location not currently known
• Stickyback photographers by name
• Spiridione Nicolo Grossi, his family and his businesses
• Photo booths

Card mounts - Some thoughts on card mounts and dating.

Cartes de Visite - an article entitled “Contemporary Press - Cartes de visite” by Andrew Wynter published in The British Journal of Photography, March 12 1869 and March 25 1869.

A Century of News - Mike Petty gives us a century of photography related news items from the local Cambridge press

The Whitney Collection - an important collection of photographic material in the Huntingdonshire Archives spanning the period from the 1850s to the 1950s, from the studios of Arthur Maddison, Percy Graham, Maddison and Hinde and Ernest Whitney. We have a number of pages on the Collection:

• An overview of the collection.
• A detailed history of Arthur Maddison, Frederick Hinde and Ernest Whitney, photographers of Huntingdon
• Report on the Pilot Project on the Collection 2006-8

St Neots - St Neots Photographers by David Bushby

Directories - a list of directories consulted in preparing this site

A photograph which has lost its identity, no date, no photographer's name, with post card back, divided back, the composition and expressions suggest that this was probably taken for a memento of the family for the husband/father serving in the armed forces during WW1.