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Description: | Francis Frith (English, 1822-1899)
Francis Frith was a Victorian pioneer photographer who established a firm which set out to photograph every town and site of interest in the British isles. Acquired by the Library in 1985, the collection comprises 316,000 negatives and some 4,000 prints by Francis Frith & Co. taken between c1870-1970. This vast collection of topographical views of Great Britain is accompanied by indexes compromising numerical listing of the negatives taken prior to 1939 and an alphabetical list of places represented in the numerical file. An incomplete micro-fiche edition of the archive, arranged by country, county and then alphabetically by town is available.
The collection is held in Archives and Heritage Services on floor 6 of Birmingham Central Library. Visit www.birmingham.gov.uk/archivesandheritage for more details. | Format: | Negatives | Subjects: | Photographic negatives Prints Photography Topographical views | Temporal: | 20th century - early 1900-1930 20th century - mid 1931-1970 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0121 233 4458 | Telephone: | 0121 303 4511 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8646 | Format: | Negatives | Go to resource |
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