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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: robbo43 on Tuesday 27 January 09 19:38 GMT (UK)
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Any chance of dating another of my unknowns? Small children must be worse than men! Back of card to follow.
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And the reverse
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a clean
Irene
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Have you tried searching trade directories to see when that particular studio was in operation?
Unfortunately I have no idea if trade directories have made their way on to the web yet. I am just dabbling at the moment.
Puss
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Hello Robbo.
I am going to the local archives on Saturday. If you haven't found this photographer in a trades directory by then I will see if the archives have any dates this chap was operating.
Kesannah
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Robbo, I have just googled "John Hart Photographer" and there are some pics he took shown on a web site. You might like to look at them c.1900
Kesannah.
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Here are the details of John Harts Studio
http://www.photolondon.org.uk/pages/details.asp?pid=3559
cheers floozy ;D
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Thanks all. The 15 Market Place address seems only to have been in use for a couple of years, 1889-1890, but I guess he would have used up oldcard stock with that address on it, so best guess would be 1889 through early/mid 1890s. If family, l eaves a number of contenders, and need not be family at all, but the date is always useful for building up an idea of photographic styles/
Robert