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Choose from a growing selection of inspiring, historic, pioneering, delightful and stunning photographs and you can have your own high quality print delivered to your door. Choose from the galeries below which say ‘ Buy Online’.

 
 Journeys and Arrivals & Integration
Journeys Journeys
A narrative which charts post-War immigration to Britain from within the Empire.
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Arrivals & Integration
Arrivals & Integration
Moving between worlds has changed not just individual lives but the destinies of entire nations. Read more…

Collections available to view online
Pictures of Scotland
 Pictures of Scotland

Photographs of Scotland, dating from 1840s – 1870s, including work by William Henry Fox Talbot and Roger Fenton, more…

Pictures of Wales
Pictures of Wales

Photographs of Wales, dating from the 1840s to the 1880s, including work by Roger Fenton and Francis Bedford, more…

Pictures of Eastern England
 Pictures of Eastern England

Photographs dating from the 1840s to the early twentieth century, more…

England – South West
 Pictures of Eastern England

Photographs dating from the 1840s to the early twentieth century, more…

 Still Life
Still Life

A selection of beautiful studies from life in the RPS Collection by Rodger Fenton more…

 RPS Archive – Buy Online
RPS Archive

Work selected from the Royal Photographic Society Collection, including photographs… more

 Clarence Hudson White – Buy Online
Clarence Hudson White

White founded the Pictorial Photographers’ Association and worked closely with… more

 Pictorialism – Buy Online
Pictorialism

Early 20th century amateur art photography, the best known of which was The Linked Ring Brotherhood, more

 Tony Ray-Jones – Buy Online

Various Tony-Ray Jones photographs from England and America, more…

 Dawn of Photography – Buy Online
Dawn                         of Photography

Early Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot and Anna Atkins, more…

 Ambrotypes
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The collodion positive, commonly known as ambrotype, popular during the 1850s and 1860s, more…

 Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900)
Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900)

In 1865 Charles Piazzi Smyth, recorded and photographed Egypt’s Great Pyramid, more

 Rev. Alexander John Ellis (1818-1890)
Rev. Alexander John Ellis (1818-1890)

During 1840 – 1841, Ellis toured Italy taking and acquiring various daguerreotypes, more…

 Stereoviews of Egypt
Stereoviews of Egypt

Francis Frith (1822-1890)
was a pioneer of travel photography, more…

 Bradford Album
Bradford Album

The Collection includes an album of views of Bradford by Frith & Co, more…

 George Bridges (1788-1864)
George Bridges (1788-1864)

A selection of early photographs of Greece, taken by Rev. George Bridges, more…

 Early colour portraits
Early colour portraits

During World War Two, Redhead had access to supplies of scarce Kodachrome colour film, more…

 John Thomson (1837-1921)
Foochow and the River Min

John Thomson was one of the most significant travel photographer-explorers of the nineteenth century, more…

 Early colour photographs
Early colour photographs

Kodachrome film, launched by Kodak in 1935, is regarded as the first ‘modern’ colour photographic process, more…

 Paul Martin (1864-1944)
Paul Martin (1864-1944)

His candid photographs of daily life are recognised as his greatest work, more…

 Photographing War
Photographing War

A collection of various images from conflicts over the years with a short essay by curator Colin Harding, more…

 Samuel Bourne (1834-1912)
Foochow and the River Min

In 1863 Samuel undertook several photographic expeditions, including trips to the Himalayas, more…

 Images from the Kodak Collection
Images from the Kodak Collection

Travel has always been one of the most popular subjects for the amateur photographer, more…

 
Pictures of Northern England
 Pictures of Scotland

Photographs of Northern England, dating from 1840s to the early twentieth century, more…

Pictures of the Midlands
Pictures of the Midlands

A selection of photographs of the Midlands, including Warwick Castle and Leamington, more…

England – South East
England - South East

Photographs dating from the 1840s to the early twentieth century, more…

 Walter Bird (1903-1969)
Walter Bird (1903-1969)

Fabulous colour studio photographs from the 1930s by Walter Bird, more…

 Fred Holland Day – Buy Online
Fred Holland Day                 Thomson

Opinionated and influential, Fred Holland Day (USA, 1864-1933) made beautiful portraits… more…

 Roger Fenton – Buy Online
Roger Fenton                        Thomson

Roger Fenton (UK, 1819-69) was instrumental in the formation f the (Royal) Photographic… more…

 John Thomson – Buy Online
John                         Thomson

One of the most significant travel photographer-explorers of the nineteenth century, more…

 Kodak Collection – Buy Online
Rev. Alexander John Ellis (1818-1890)

A selection of snapshot photographs from the Kodak Collection, more…

 Art Photography – Buy Online
Art                         Photography

Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll and Oscar Rejlander, more…

 Carte-de-visite
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The carte-de-visite is the most common form of Victorian photograph, more…

 Edouard-Denis Baldus (1815-1882)
Edouard-Denis Baldus (1815-1882)

A selection from an album of Parisian views by Baldus, more…

 Excursions daguerriennes

In 1839, N. P. Lerebours (1807-1873) began collecting daguerreotype views of Europe, more…

 The Gossiping Photographer at Hastings
The Gossiping Photographer at Hastings

Francis Frith (1822-1898) and a selection of photographs published in 1864, more…

 Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941)
The Gossiping Photographer at Hastings

Best known for his naturalistic and spontaneous style of photography, more…

 George Davison (1854-1930)
George Davison (1854-1930)

George Davison was a noted pictorial photographer and a founder member of The Linked Ring in 1892, more…

 Afghan War Album
The Gossiping Photographer at Hastings

An album of photographs of the Afghan War
(1878-1879) taken by John Burke, more…

 Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
Julia Margaret Cameron

Cameron is one of the most significant and original photographers of the nineteenth century, more…

 Men of Mark
Men of Mark

Published between 1876-1883, ‘Men of Mark’ was a series of books about prominent men of the time, more…

 Photographic Advertising Limited Archive
Photographic Advertising Limited Archive

Founded in 1926 and specialised in creating multi-purpose stock images for the advertising industry, more…

 Roger Fenton (1819-1869)
Roger Fenton (1819-1869)

A f ounding member of the RPS and one of the most influential photographers of the 1850s, more…

 The Cabinet Portrait Gallery
The Cabinet Portrait Gallery

A selection contemporary celebrities, published in the 1890s, more…

 Women’s Work in the War (1915-1918)
Foochow and the River Min

An album of photographs of women employed in the war effort during WW1. more…

 W J Pilkington and Studio Sun Ltd
�W J Pilkington and Studio Sun Ltd

Colour commercial and advertising photographs from Studio Sun Ltd, more…

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