Collection: Sydney Pitcher Collection

Date:: 1900 - 1949

Reference:: PIT01

Type:: Collection containing Photographic material

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Description

Coverage : Secular and ecclesiastical architecture - especially cathedral interiors and exteriors in Gloucestershire, Hereford and Worcester, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Berkshire, with the emphasis on Gloucester and Cotswolds. Individual photographs have not yet been fully catalogued.

Includes 3 early colour process negatives of Pauntley church in Gloucestershire thought to be connected with the three-plate Carbro process. A colour print attributed to Pitcher showing Preston church that may also have been produced using this process is also part of the collection.

The collection may also include his father's work, Arthur H Pitcher (1851-1912), as Sydney inherited the family photographic business in 1912. Arthur H Pitcher is known to have had a photographic business from at least 1885. Sydney Pitcher (1884-1950) was a Royal Photographic Society exhibitor from 1900.

Archival History

Provenance : (1884-1950) Gloucester-based professional photographer who contributed over 5000 images, taken between 1910s-1940s, to the NBR. Most of this collection has been accessioned into RCHME Negatives

Content

This Collection is divided into 2 Series and 1 Child Record

This Collection contains the following materials:

Photograph (Negative): 103

Photograph (Negative): 3

Photograph (Negative): 80

Photograph (Print): 275

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Pitcher, Sydney Alfred