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Talk to EPS Digital Imaging Group - November 10, 2008 History of Photography 5. Photographic Societies |
1840s
A few professional photographers in Britain.
No copyright restrictions in Scotland
1842
Edinburgh Calotype Club.
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Around 1842, a group of Edinburgh advocates and other gentlemen connected with Parliament House visited St Andrews to see the calotypes produced by Brewster and others. On their return to Edinburgh, they created the Edinburgh Calotype Club. Sir James Francis Dunlop Cosmo Innes PSS JF Montgomery Mungo Pontin John Stewart PSS Sheriff Hugh Tennant Two albums of photographs have survived from the Club. There may well be a third, still to be found BJP Report “The death of Professor Cosmo Innes (31 July 1874) noticed by our 'peripatetic' correspondent last week recalls to our mind some of the long-forgotten reminiscences of what was undoubtedly the earliest photographic society in the world - the Calotype Club - of which Professor Innes was one of the founders and one of the most enthusiastic members.” |
Edinburgh Calotype Album Photo
Maitland, Montgommery and Tennent
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh Calotype Album Photo
Hugh Lyon Playfair with Cello
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh Calotype Album Photo
Holy Trinity Church - Dean Bridge
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh Calotype Album Photo
Head of West Bow
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh Calotype Album Photo
Dean Orphanage
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh Calotype Album Photo
George Heriot's Hospital
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh Calotype Album Photo
The Shore, Leith
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh Calotype Album Photo
Chain Pier - Newhaven
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
1850s
1851 - The Great Exhibition
Other Photographic Societies
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Leeds |
1852 -c.60 |
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London |
1853 continuing Now RPS |
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Liverpool |
1853 continuing? |
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Devon and Cornwall |
1854 - 59 |
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Norwich |
1854 - 61 |
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Dublin |
1854 - 58 |
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Brighton & Sussex |
1855 - 59? |
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Manchester |
1855 continuing |
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Scotland |
1856 - 67 |
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Dumfries & Galloway |
1856 - 59 |
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Birmingham |
1856 - 66 |
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North London |
1857 - 69 |
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Belfast |
1857 |
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Chorlton |
1857 - 65 |
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Blackheath |
1857 - 63 |
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Greenwich |
1857 - 65 |
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Paisley |
1857 - 1859 |
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Nottingham |
1858 - ? |
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Macclesfield |
1858 - 65 |
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South London |
1859 - 87 |
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Glasgow & West of Scotland |
1860 - 1902 |
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Bradford |
1860 - ? |
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Edinburgh |
1861 continuing |
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Newcastle |
1861- ? |
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Amateur |
1861-1903 |
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