Brown Barnes & Bell

Cabinet Print  -  3

 Brown, Barnes & Bell Cabinet Print

Painted over in Oils

The back of a cabinet print by Brown Barnes & Bell, with labels from a White Star Lline cruise - date not known

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ann Passeri, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

 The back of the Brown, Barnes & Bell Cabinet Print

with labels from White Star Line

The back of a cabinet print by Brown Barnes & Bell, with labels from a White Star Lline cruise - date not known

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ann Passeri, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

 

 

Questions

1.   Ann Passeri who sent me the photograph above is hoping to find the name of the person in this photo, or at least to be able to find some information about the uniform.

2.  The White Star Line labels on the back of the cabinet print are interesting.  Do these imply that Brown, Barnes & Bell had some arrangement to take photographs on board White Star Line cruise ships, and if so over what period?

If you have any views on these questions, please e-mail me.

Thank you:

-   Peter Stubbs

January 25, 2006

Reply

Thank you to Ron Cosens who replied:

Labels on the Photo

The labels do not really evidence any tie up with the shipping line.  The subject is apparently a sailor from the ship (I cannot identify the uniform but does the cap badge match the shipping line emblem? )

I suspect that the labels are to do with other passenger matters (one says attach to a post card and etc - probably asking the customer to send something back re the proposed cruise).

The (sticky) labels were probably  just readily available to the uniformed sitter and were used to mount the photo to a board for framing (the picture looks as if it has been framed.) 

Ron Cosens,  web site: author of www.cartedevisite.co.uk:  January 26, 2006

 

 

Zoom in to read the labels  on the back of this cabinet print

Cabinet Print by Brown, Barnes & Bell - zoom-in to see the labels on the back of the cabinet print. ©

 

 

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