Volume: An album containing 71 prints of various locations across Devon, collected by Janette Rosing

Description

This album consists of 71 photographs depicting town, riverside and coastal scenes from across Devon. Coastal and river localities feature heavily, accounting for over half of the images in the album and include Brixham, Dartmouth, and Salcombe, as well as smaller villages such as Dittisham, Kingswear and Torcross. There are also images of tourist locations popular at the time in Dartmoor National Park including Roborough Rock, Bowerman’s Nose, Becky Falls and Spinster’s Rock. The photographs were taken by a number of well-known photographers and photographic companies from the time including Francis Frith and Company Limited (who captured 33 of the 71 images), James Valentine and Sons Limited, and Francis Bedford.

Content

This is part of the Series: JRC01/01 Series Of Photographic Prints Collected And Compiled By Janette Rosing; within the Collection: JRC01 Janette Rosing Collection

This Volume contains the following materials:

Photograph Album: 1

Photograph (Albumen Print): 56

Photograph (Gelatine Print): 12

Photograph (Platinum Print): 3

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive