Camera Collection (#89)

Young woman taking photograph of the Monumental Head, by Igor Mitora, Boboli Gardens, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO, c1878. Wedding Party at a Photographers Studio. Oil on canvas, 1878-9, by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

BICYCLE CAMERA AD, 1887. American newspaper advertisement for a bicycle camera, 1887

ATLANTIC CITY: BEACH. A photographer on a crowded beach taking a picture of a group of three people with a donkey (including a woman with a sign saying I could stay in Atlantic City forever)

CHARLIE CHAPLIN (1889-1977). Charles Spencer Chaplin. English film actor, director, and comedian. Chaplin photographed on location during the shooting of his film The Gold Rush, 1925

BASEBALL PLAYERS, 1920s. Al Schacht and Nick Altrock of the Washington Senators clowning around before a camera, 1920s

SILENT FILM SET, c1925. Actor Harold Lockwood (holding baseball) and director Fred Balshofer on the set of a silent film, c1925

FILM: UNDERWORLD, 1927. Filming a scene for the gangster movie, directed by Joseph von Sternberg in 1927, the cameraman has armored himself against the blast as he films Evelyn Brent fleeing

FILM CAMERA WAGON, 1898. Billy Bitzer, who later became D. W. Griffiths cameraman
FILM CAMERA WAGON, 1898. Billy Bitzer, who later became D.W. Griffiths cameraman, with the camera in the Biograph Pictures camera wagon. Biograph produced movies to be shown at the Keith Theaters

FILMING ON LOCATION, 1923. Director James Cruze, in checkered jacket, crew and actors ready to film a scene in Utah for The Covered Wagon, 1923

THE IRON HORSE, 1924. The joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads at Promontory Point, Utah, 10 May 1869. Scene from the silent film The Iron Horse directed by John Ford, 1924

D. W. GRIFFITH (1875-1948). American film producer and director. Griffith, right
D.W. GRIFFITH (1875-1948). American film producer and director. Griffith, right, and his cameraman Billy Bitzer filming a scene with the actor Henry B. Walthall, c1910-1915

MYRTLE LIND (1901-1966). American actress, holding a Graflex camera on a beach, c1919

MARY PICKFORD (1893-1979). Born Gladys Mary Smith. American actress, with a movie camera on a beach, c1916

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Traveling photographer taking a picture of farmers in their field, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century A.B. Frost illustration

American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) adult, investigating photographer, Minnesota, U. S. A
American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) adult, investigating photographer, Minnesota, U.S.A

Goodwood Revival Taking a photo

Police Speed Camera on M6

Speed reading on Police camera M6

2005 Nissan Pathfinder 2.5 Tspec dci

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

A piglet gazes into the camera

Metropolitan Police investigation equipment, set out on the ground at the back of a green van

Photographic party, Slebech, Pembrokeshire, West Wales
A photographic party on the bridge at Slebech, Pembrokeshire, West Wales. Blackpool Bridge, crossing the River Cleddau, is a Grade II listed, single span bridge

Two Edwardian bikers, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Two Edwardian men on their motor cycles in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. The man on the right, on a Triumph Imperial, is a member of the Philipps family of Picton Castle

Cooks Continental Coach Tours
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks Continental Coach Tours -- see it all so easily! A roll of camera film shows colourful pictures of holiday resorts, and a coach travelling along a road

GATSO speed camera
A GATSO speed camera with two Metropolitan Police officers

Postcard Collectors
A fabulous French postcard depicting two postcard collectors

Scene in a photographers studio. Several men, who appear to be photographers themselves, watch a photographer photographing a little boy, who seems to be enjoying the experience

Operating a Vertical Projector
The Head of the offset-deep process Department at the Lund Humphries Printing works, operating a vertical projector. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Photographic Studio scene
A fantastic example of a photographic studio from the early 20th century with the decoration and dressing of the studio, the immense plate camera and the photographer himself

Chanakkale - Prayers being said near a well, with Imams, civilians and individuals in military uniform. One gentleman with a bandaged head holds a camera

Smile
A woman with a camera adopts a photographers pose for - another photographer

Dog poses for the camera
Lovely scene showing a biddable terrier adopting the " beg" position and posing beautifully for his owner who holds a rather nice looking camera

Baby poses for the camera
A baby sits on a wicker chair and is centre of attention as a group of children encourage it to smile for its photograph, taken with a Eastman Kodak Hawk-Eye camera

Vertical Projector at a print works
A technician uses a vertical projector at Lund Humphries printing firm. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1950s

Photographer c. 1910
Man taking photograph with a vintage camera c. 1910

Setting up a camera shot, Kashgar, western China
Local men stand watching as a western man sets up his camera to take a shot, on a trip through Kashgar, western China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Kinora camera advertisement
Advertisement for the Kinora, which, without lantern or screen shows " living" pictures taken with a hand camera and, according to the ad

Etienne Carjat / Gill
Etienne Carjat (1828-1906): famous cartoonist, journalist, poet and photographer

Apprehensive Sitters
Posed in front of a painted backdrop, a girl and a dog watch the camera apprehensively

A 1930s British film studio by Alfred Bestall
An impression by Alfred Bestall of the making of a close-up in a British film studio in the 1930s. A host of lighting and camera men are focused on a single actress

Confirmation of Princess Margaret of Connaught
The confirmation of Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882-1920), elder daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught in the private chapel at Windsor in March 1898

Prince & Princess of Wales visit Glasgow
The Prince and Princess of Wales, captured on camera during a visit to Glasgow in the 1890s. Civic visits, openings, loyal addresses and dedications helped to increase the popularity

Communist Commanders
A group of communist military commanders, including Voroshilov Klim, take time off from the war to pose for the camera

Photographer holding a Sky-scraper camera on the roof of a
Exaggerated view through a Sky-scraper camera. An invention by the famous New York photographers, the Byron Company, the camera was designed to capture tall buildings at close range

An evening at the camera club
A practical demonstration of the developments in photography. An illustration of an evening at the camera club. (undated)

Camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. The soldiers are pictured here ready to fire the rocket from its framework

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