Collection: Album of carte de visite photographs of Northumberland
- Date:
- 1860 - 1870
- Reference:
- NCV01
- Type:
- Collection containing Photographic material
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Description
The collection comprises an album of 184 black and white carte de visite format albumen prints mainly showing views of Northumberland and appearing to date from the 1860s. The photographs were probably compiled by Thomas Tate whose bookplate appears in the front of the album. Photographers featured in the collection include the North of England Photographic Institute, J Borthwick, J Marshall and Son, J C Paterson and George Potter, all based in Alnwick, BB Cullingworth of Kirkby Lonsdale, R Totherick of Berwick Upon Tweed, J F Sutcliffe of Burton in Kendal and W Creighton of Morpeth.
Towns and their surrounding areas depicted include Morpeth, Alnwick, Warkworth, Rothbury, and Berwick Upon Tweed. There are also some scenes in Lancashire, Cumbria, Tyne and Wear and Durham as well as images of one or military camps and a small number of portraits of people.
These early high quality commercial images may in some cases be the earliest photographic views of the places depicted and the images of Alnwick represent a very early photographic survey of an English town.
Archival History
The collection was acquired by the Historic England Archive in 2015.
Content
This Collection is divided into 1 Child Volume
This Collection contains the following materials:
Rights
Source: Historic England Archive
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