RootsChat.Com

Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Dublin => Topic started by: little alison on Saturday 19 November 22 12:18 GMT (UK)

Title: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: little alison on Saturday 19 November 22 12:18 GMT (UK)
I'd be grateful if anybody could anybody could point me to a site giving access to information about a photographer called Stanley (surname) producing 'cartes de visite' in Dublin about this date.

I have three of these of known family and am trying to make out is whether they were all taken at the same time. One of these was dated here as about 1889 (John Little and wife), the others may be later (their children).  The subjects  of all three left for South Africa in 1896.

I've tried Google. Can't get into the right part of the only site which might have this!
Any help please?
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: AlanBoyd on Saturday 19 November 22 12:48 GMT (UK)
From the Evening Herald (Dublin) - Wednesday 04 December 1895
Implies that he may have just opened for business in 1895, or maybe he has just relocated to a new address in Dublin?

Quote
A NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO
IN DUBLIN
—
HIGH-CLASS WORK
AND
MODERATE CHARGES
—
CARTES DE VISITES and CABINETS 7s 6d and 12s Per Dozen respectively

J. E.STANLEY
(OF LONDON)

GALLERIES–32 WESTMORELAND STREET
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: AlanBoyd on Saturday 19 November 22 12:52 GMT (UK)
I’ve now found an actual opening announcement dated December 20th 1893, content otherwise very similar.

(Evening Herald (Dublin) - Wednesday 20 December 1893)

added: J E Stanley has adverts in the same newspaper throughout the 1890s, ending in 1898. The British Newspaper Archive includes a run of this title up to 1902 so this suggests that something happened in 1898: death or retirement perhaps.
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Saturday 19 November 22 13:08 GMT (UK)
Quote from: AlanBoyd on Saturday 19 November 22 12:48 GMT (UK)
From the Evening Herald (Dublin) - Wednesday 04 December 1895
Implies that he may have just opened for business in 1895, or maybe he has just relocated to a new address in Dublin?

Quote
A NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO
IN DUBLIN
—
HIGH-CLASS WORK
AND
MODERATE CHARGES
—
CARTES DE VISITES and CABINETS 7s 6d and 12s Per Dozen respectively

J. E.STANLEY
(OF LONDON)

GALLERIES–32 WESTMORELAND STREET

Here's the actual ad in the Evening Herald paper.

Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: hanes teulu on Saturday 19 November 22 13:36 GMT (UK)
https://jacolette.wordpress.com/tag/stanley-studio-dublin/

Wondered if the "Stanley" on your Cartes de Visite looked like the "Stanley" in the link?. I believe by 1910 J E Stanley has been take over by Lafayette.
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: little alison on Saturday 19 November 22 13:42 GMT (UK)
Thanks to all....but my last reply doesn't seem to have got here

i was trying to draw a conclusion...were John Little and wife wearing slightly outdated clothes?
They were dated 1889 here by the clothing...

I also put in a find, of Lauder Bros at the same address, 32 WESTMORELAND STREET - I put in a link which I've now lost, sorry! and a similar carte photo somewhere on Rootschat, with no date.

 - the background of that photo was very similar - did Stanley take over their studio?
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: little alison on Saturday 19 November 22 13:44 GMT (UK)
To Hanes -  the link I sent said Lauder Bros at the same address...Alison
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: hanes teulu on Saturday 19 November 22 13:47 GMT (UK)
Without checking back, I think Lauder were also part of the Lafayette takeover.
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: little alison on Saturday 19 November 22 14:08 GMT (UK)
Making it Lauder Bros....then Stanley... then Lafayette/Lauder Bros?
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: little alison on Saturday 19 November 22 14:15 GMT (UK)
The link with Lauder Bros - https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=747610.0
The backdrop's very similar to that in two of my photos.

Any comments on my family theory, please?
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: hanes teulu on Saturday 19 November 22 15:07 GMT (UK)
Quote from: little alison on Saturday 19 November 22 14:08 GMT (UK)
Making it Lauder Bros....then Stanley... then Lafayette/Lauder Bros?
 
Dublin Daily Nation, 7 Feb 1898
LAFAYETTE LIMITED
"... Company formed to aquire and carry on the well known business of M. Lafayette at Dublin ...; and also to acquire the businesses of Lauder Brothers and E J Stanley**, Photographers of Dublin ..."

** - think this should read "J E Stanley"?
Title: Re: Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
Post by: little alison on Saturday 19 November 22 16:42 GMT (UK)
Ah, that makes sense now.

But I started this thread really to find out when the three photos I have from Stanley's were taken. That's John and wife, son Matthew, and 4 daughters.

They comprise the part of my family which went to SA in 1896. Not my grandfather Andrew - who refused to go, which is why I'm in the UK!

If John and wife were wearing slightly out of date clothes, all the photos were taken at least 6 years after we thought. And not taken to John's father's funeral in Lancashire in 1889.

Which doesn't rule out the fact that John's picture did end up in New Zealand as well as here....
via SA.... several people's family tree dating could be affected by this!

Comments please? Alison