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Tinted Tintype of Three Unidentified Children
Lovely Tintype (larger than usual at 3.5" x 2.5") of three unidentified children with evidence of tinting (note the rosy cheeks, still just about evident)
What’s Her Name? Undecipherable handwriting [Solved]
Beautiful young woman on this Carte de Visite, taken at the studio of Elliot & Fry, 55 Baker Street, London, probably 1860s, but can you decipher the name on the back? Now available to buy on our main site Update: Thank you Sherri Lee who has...
High Street, Ely
Unused Postcard of Ely High Street. Available on our website here
Real Life Downton Abbey
Unidentified young housemaid, Cheshire, estimated 1870s. Available to buy on our main site here
Youth in Unidentified Uniform, Carte de Visite, 1880s
Trying to identify the Uniform being worn by this unknown youth, photographed by James Monte, 38 Whitechapel Road, London, 1880s. Also on our main site here
Lord Street, Liverpool, 1916
Lord Street Liverpool, in this postcard originally posted to Master and Miss Harris of Godalming, Surrey, October 1916. Full details and available to buy here
Victorian Family, 1870s
Victorian Family, St Helens, Merseyside
16th October 1872 – A Gipsy Advertisment in “The Times”
In Charles Leland's 1874 book "English Gipsies and Their Language", under the section 'A Gipsy Advertisment in "The Times"' he discusses a classified ad that his crptogropher friend tried in vain to deceipher, and which he immediately recognised as English Romany...
Stilton to Folkingham roadmap, via Peterborough, 1785
From Paterson's British Itinerary Vol II, 1785. Printed by Carrington Bowles, London
Large Tin type of Morgan Lewis Mathewson, (1807 – 1889)
Linda Dabulewicz has contacted us asking for more information about this very large tintype, believed to be of her Great Great Great Grandfather, Morgan Lewis Matthewson. It is intriguing that he has a ladies lace cap at his arm. Was there a practice of photographing...
