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My thanks to Clare Freestone, Curator, Photography @NPGLondon for adding recent Pressphotoman research findings to the NPG website.
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'Newcastle upon Tyne: The Greatest Railway Crossing in the World' by the Photochrom Company Ltd of Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
A Pressphotoman piece on this 1930s postcard and its legendary steam locomotive subject.
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'Newcastle upon Tyne: The Greatest Railway Crossing in the World' by the Photochrom Company Ltd of Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
A Pressphotoman piece on this 1930s postcard and its legendary steam locomotive subject.
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4 weeks to go ...
In collaboration with @historicengland I'll be presenting new research on Ursula Clark (1940-2000).
For further details, visit the @cortauld website.
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Auty & Ruddock of Tynemouth offered customers a range of high quality photographic portraits.
Even the versos of their cards were high quality.
Discover more via the Pressphotoman blogpost below.
Trapp & Münch of Berlin supplied albumenised paper and cardboard mounts to Victorian portrait photographers.
A Pressphotoman piece on how a studio in Tynemouth, NE England used German products and printers to establish a reputation for quality.
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ALT Image credit: Free Library pf Philadelphia Digital Collections.
Trapp & Münch of Berlin supplied albumenised paper and cardboard mounts to Victorian portrait photographers.
A Pressphotoman piece on how a studio in Tynemouth, NE England used German products and printers to establish a reputation for quality.
pressphotoman.com/2026/10/12…
ALT Image credit: Free Library pf Philadelphia Digital Collections.
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Our third volume is out!! The stories behind the best music from 1971-72 on #islandrecords. #nickdrake #roxymusic #bobmarley #robertpalmer #traffic #stevewinwood #free #jethrotull #mountain #sandydenny
Music photographer Keith Morris (1938-2005).
My photo of him features in 'The Island Book of Records 1971-72' @ManchesterUP published tomorrow.
A Pressphotoman piece on 'the bench' and Nick Drake's 'Pink Moon' album @islandrecordsuk
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A camera sold by Mawson & Swan of 9 & 13 Mosley Street, Newcastle on Tyne in May 1882 to the American artist Winslow Homer.
A Pressphotoman on how photography informed his artistic practice during 18 months in the Cullercoats artists colony.
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ALT Image credit: Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
A camera sold by Mawson & Swan of 9 & 13 Mosley Street, Newcastle on Tyne in May 1882 to the American artist Winslow Homer.
A Pressphotoman on how photography informed his artistic practice during 18 months in the Cullercoats artists colony.
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ALT Image credit: Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
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'The Misses Carrick' were daughters of the celebrated artist Thomas Heathfield Carrick (1802-1874).
A Pressphotoman piece on Jane and Minnie Carrick's portrait and photography studio in 1860s and 1870s Newcastle on Tyne.
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'The Misses Carrick' were daughters of the celebrated artist Thomas Heathfield Carrick (1802-1874).
A Pressphotoman piece on Jane and Minnie Carrick's portrait and photography studio in 1860s and 1870s Newcastle on Tyne.
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Looking forward to 'Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish Architectural History' @courtauld in London in November.
I'll be presenting new research on Ursula Clark (1940-2000).
Book for the 3rd Annual Mark Girouard Symposium.
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Looking forward to 'Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish Architectural History' @courtauld in London in November.
I'll be presenting new research on Ursula Clark (1940-2000).
Book for the 3rd Annual Mark Girouard Symposium.
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A view of the Durham skyline in the 1860s.
A Pressphotoman piece on three photographs of the same view taken from roughly the same spot 100 years apart.
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A view of the Durham skyline in the 1860s.
A Pressphotoman piece on three photographs of the same view taken from roughly the same spot 100 years apart.
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The South Shields 'Parry the photographer' was WS Parry's son.
William Parry (1849-1912) opened a studio at 5 Victoria Terrace in 1884 moving to 8 Ogle Terrace in 1891 where he died following a stroke aged 63.
The Parrys like the Downeys were a photographic dynasty.
And here's the verso ...
Carte de visite portrait c. 1864-71 by William Softley Parry of 17 Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne.
A Pressphotoman piece on photographers like Parry whose artistic skills helped give their studios a commercial advantage.
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Carte de visite portrait c. 1864-71 by William Softley Parry of 17 Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne.
A Pressphotoman piece on photographers like Parry whose artistic skills helped give their studios a commercial advantage.
pressphotoman.com/2026/09/07…