Photographic Collecting
My main interests as a photographic collector are photographic literature, trade catalogues, company documents and records and photographic journals and periodicals to facilitate my research into British photographic history, mainly relate to my research interests. I am currently cataloguing and ordering my library.
I have collected or been given a small number of cameras over the years, usually cameras which are British and I find interesting, for example, the first all-plastic camera A.P.M.’s Rajar No. 6 of 1929 and brown and black models of the Coronet Midget (1935).
I would be interested in acquiring:
- Photographic journals from the 1850s-1940s including Photographic Notes, Photographic News, British Journal of Photography, The Photogram, Photographic Dealer, Photographic Review of Reviews, The Camera, amongst others
- Photographic annuals including British Journal Photographic Almanac pre 1900; Year Book of Photography pre 1900; Photographic Annual; Photograms of the Year
- Photographic manuals, Books and publications pre 1870 especially 1840s, 1850s and 1860s editions
- Trade catalogues from 1840-1920 from any British companies and firms and including advertising sheets and price lists as well as bound catalogues of goods, from camera makers, plate and sensitized goods makers, studios, publishers and retailers. Photographic patents, trademarks and intellectual property.
- Company documents and records including annual reports, memorandum and articles of associations, stock books and any other formal or informal records from all British photographic companies
- Printed ephemera relating to photographic companies and photography from the 1840s-1900 including handbills, flyers, exhibition catalogues, etc…
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