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- Stereoview of the Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash taken from the South East showing scaffolding on the towers
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Brief description:
- No. 102. Reverse carries the stamp: "Stereoscopic Treasures / Published by W. Spreat 229 High Street Exeter."
In 1853 the chains intended to be used for the Clifton Suspension Bridge were sold and reused to form Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash. The bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, England
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/94
- Object production date:
- c.1859
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1859-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1859-12-31
- Object production person:
- Spreat, W, publisher, 229 High Street, Exeter
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-094.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Postcard showing Fribourg including view of Middle Bridge
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Inscribed on reverse
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Middle Bridge, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Number of objects:
- 1 black and white postcard
- Object component name:
- Language
- Object component information:
- fr
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/3/100
- Object production date:
- Postmarked [11 July 1912]
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 12/07/1907
- Date - latest:
- 12/07/1907
- Object production person:
- Editions Louis Burgy, Lausanne, publisher
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Postcard of Clifton Suspension Bridge from the Clifton side
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Addressed to Miss Doris Bond with a message from Molly.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Number of objects:
- 1 black and white postcard
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 PC/153
- Object production date:
- Postmarked [17 July 1923]
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 01/01/1923
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1923
- Object production person:
- Valentine & Sons Ltd, publisher
- Person's biographical note:
- Valentines of Dundee was founded in 1851 by James Valentine (1815-1879). Initially concerned with engraving, printing and stationery, the firm soon adopted photography. In 1855 Valentine erected one of the largest photographic glasshouses in Britain. About 1860 he started selling topographical photographs, converting a barouche into a mobile darkroom. His son, William Dobson Valentine (1844-1907), entered the family business in about 1860 after training as landscape photographer in the studios of Francis Frith, the largest English publisher of commercial landscapes at that time.
From 1882 Valentines branched out to include English as well as Scottish views, producing different sizes of grouped prints and stereoscopic photographs. Upon James' death in 1879, his sons William and George Dobson Valentine (1852-1890) took over the company. Based in Dundee, William pioneered large scale photographic processing and photo-mechanical printing and undertook the first unsuccessful attempts at submarine photography in connection with the investigation of the Tay rail bridge disaster early in 1880. In 1898 they started producing picture postcards. In 1900 under Managing Director Harben James Valentine (1872-1949) they became a private limited company, employing their own staff photographers and artists and also buying images from local and national photographers and agencies. By the 1950s, the production of postcards began to wane as greetings cards became more profitable. Failing to take advantage of colour photography, in 1967 they stopped publishing monochrome postcards and by 1970 they ceased publishing postcards altogether.
The major archive of monochrome topographical views by James Valentine & Sons is held by the University of St Andrews Library. For further details of this collection please contact the Library, or refer to http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Postcard of Clifton Suspension Bridge from the Clifton side
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Not addressed or posted but has a written message.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Number of objects:
- 1 colour postcard
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 PC/156
- Object production date:
- c. 1920 - 1970
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 01/01/1920
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1970
- Object production person:
- Valentine & Sons Ltd, publisher
- Person's biographical note:
- Valentines of Dundee was founded in 1851 by James Valentine (1815-1879). Initially concerned with engraving, printing and stationery, the firm soon adopted photography. In 1855 Valentine erected one of the largest photographic glasshouses in Britain. About 1860 he started selling topographical photographs, converting a barouche into a mobile darkroom. His son, William Dobson Valentine (1844-1907), entered the family business in about 1860 after training as landscape photographer in the studios of Francis Frith, the largest English publisher of commercial landscapes at that time.
From 1882 Valentines branched out to include English as well as Scottish views, producing different sizes of grouped prints and stereoscopic photographs. Upon James' death in 1879, his sons William and George Dobson Valentine (1852-1890) took over the company. Based in Dundee, William pioneered large scale photographic processing and photo-mechanical printing and undertook the first unsuccessful attempts at submarine photography in connection with the investigation of the Tay rail bridge disaster early in 1880. In 1898 they started producing picture postcards. In 1900 under Managing Director Harben James Valentine (1872-1949) they became a private limited company, employing their own staff photographers and artists and also buying images from local and national photographers and agencies. By the 1950s, the production of postcards began to wane as greetings cards became more profitable. Failing to take advantage of colour photography, in 1967 they stopped publishing monochrome postcards and by 1970 they ceased publishing postcards altogether.
The major archive of monochrome topographical views by James Valentine & Sons is held by the University of St Andrews Library. For further details of this collection please contact the Library, or refer to http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Postcard of Clifton Suspension Bridge from the Clifton side with scalloped edges
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Not written or posted.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Number of objects:
- 1 black and white postcard
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 PC/134
- Object production date:
- c. 1920 - 1960
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 01/01/1920
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1960
- Object production person:
- Valentine & Sons Ltd, publisher
- Person's biographical note:
- Valentines of Dundee was founded in 1851 by James Valentine (1815-1879). Initially concerned with engraving, printing and stationery, the firm soon adopted photography. In 1855 Valentine erected one of the largest photographic glasshouses in Britain. About 1860 he started selling topographical photographs, converting a barouche into a mobile darkroom. His son, William Dobson Valentine (1844-1907), entered the family business in about 1860 after training as landscape photographer in the studios of Francis Frith, the largest English publisher of commercial landscapes at that time.
From 1882 Valentines branched out to include English as well as Scottish views, producing different sizes of grouped prints and stereoscopic photographs. Upon James' death in 1879, his sons William and George Dobson Valentine (1852-1890) took over the company. Based in Dundee, William pioneered large scale photographic processing and photo-mechanical printing and undertook the first unsuccessful attempts at submarine photography in connection with the investigation of the Tay rail bridge disaster early in 1880. In 1898 they started producing picture postcards. In 1900 under Managing Director Harben James Valentine (1872-1949) they became a private limited company, employing their own staff photographers and artists and also buying images from local and national photographers and agencies. By the 1950s, the production of postcards began to wane as greetings cards became more profitable. Failing to take advantage of colour photography, in 1967 they stopped publishing monochrome postcards and by 1970 they ceased publishing postcards altogether.
The major archive of monochrome topographical views by James Valentine & Sons is held by the University of St Andrews Library. For further details of this collection please contact the Library, or refer to http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Postcard of Clifton Suspension Bridge taken from the Clifton side showing a paddle steamer
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Valentine's series: 30598. Registered in 1899.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Number of objects:
- 1 black and white postcard
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 PC/7
- Object production date:
- c. 1899
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1899-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1899-12-31
- Object production person:
- Valentine & Sons Ltd, publisher
- Person's biographical note:
- Valentines of Dundee was founded in 1851 by James Valentine (1815-1879). Initially concerned with engraving, printing and stationery, the firm soon adopted photography. In 1855 Valentine erected one of the largest photographic glasshouses in Britain. About 1860 he started selling topographical photographs, converting a barouche into a mobile darkroom. His son, William Dobson Valentine (1844-1907), entered the family business in about 1860 after training as landscape photographer in the studios of Francis Frith, the largest English publisher of commercial landscapes at that time.
From 1882 Valentines branched out to include English as well as Scottish views, producing different sizes of grouped prints and stereoscopic photographs. Upon James' death in 1879, his sons William and George Dobson Valentine (1852-1890) took over the company. Based in Dundee, William pioneered large scale photographic processing and photo-mechanical printing and undertook the first unsuccessful attempts at submarine photography in connection with the investigation of the Tay rail bridge disaster early in 1880. In 1898 they started producing picture postcards. In 1900 under Managing Director Harben James Valentine (1872-1949) they became a private limited company, employing their own staff photographers and artists and also buying images from local and national photographers and agencies. By the 1950s, the production of postcards began to wane as greetings cards became more profitable. Failing to take advantage of colour photography, in 1967 they stopped publishing monochrome postcards and by 1970 they ceased publishing postcards altogether.
The major archive of monochrome topographical views by James Valentine & Sons is held by the University of St Andrews Library. For further details of this collection please contact the Library, or refer to http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Postcard showing view taken from the top of the Clifton tower showing the bridge under construction
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Addressed to Mrs Frith with message from Ellie.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Number of objects:
- 1 black and white postcard
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 PC/3
- Object production date:
- Postmarked [1914]
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 01/01/1914
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1914
- Object production person:
- W. Brisley
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- North Wales Illustrated stereoview of the Menai Suspension Bridge taken from the new park
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Brief description:
- No. 744. Reverse is inscribed: "18/8/65".
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Menai Suspension Bridge, Wales
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on yellow card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/120
- Object production date:
- 18 August 1865
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1865-08-18
- Object production person:
- Bedford, Francis (1815 -1894), photographer
- Person's biographical note:
- Francis Bedford initially worked as an artist and lithographer before taking up photography in 1853. He received several Royal commissions and was the first photographer to be appointed on a Royal Tour in 1862. From the late 1850s onwards he produced numerous stereoscopic photographs which documented important sites from across Britain. These were popular and sold in their thousands. Sometimes his wife and two sons feature in his topographical photographs.
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-120.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Stereoview of the railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls showing a steam train on the Erie railway
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Brief description:
- No. 50.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Niagara Suspension Bridge, United States and Canada (1855)
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on cream card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/164
- Object production date:
- c. 1855 - 1897
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1855-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1897-12-31
- Object production person:
- |C Bierstadt, publisher|Underwood & Underwood, publishers
- Person's biographical note:
- In 1920 stereograph production was discontinued and Underwood & Underwood sold its stereographic stock and rights to the Keystone View Company. The Keystone republished images included a V prefix for Underwood source. An example would indicate K24056 as Keystone numbered and the same images V24056 as Underwood and Keystone dual copyrighted.
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-164.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Stereoview of the North Parade Bridge, Bath
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Brief description:
- No. 50. Part of the King's English Landscape and Architecture Series.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- North Parade Bridge, Bath, England
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on yellow card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/139
- Object production date:
- c. 1850 - 1920
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1850-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1920
- Object production person:
- unknown
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-139.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Stereoview of the Hammersmith Bridge designed by Joseph Bazalgette
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Hammersmith Bridge, London, England (1887)
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on white card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/130
- Object production date:
- c. 1887 - 1920
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1887-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1920
- Object production person:
- unknown
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-130.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Postcard showing interior of the Albert Bridge, Saltash
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Inscribed on reverse: 'Dear E.
Can you get [in] here [...] after six tomorrow [or five]
Yours etc
E. [C]. [Park] View'.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, England
- Number of objects:
- 1 black and white postcard
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/3/118
- Object production date:
- Postmarked [15 'Ju' 1906]
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 15/06/1906
- Date - latest:
- 15/07/1906
- Object production person:
- unknown
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Postcard showing Berwyn Chain Bridge from the riverside
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Inscribed on reverse: 'I shall be very pleased to go back with you. With love from all to all, Alice'.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Berwyn Chain Bridge, Llangollen, Wales (1876)
- Number of objects:
- 1 black and white postcard
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/3/53
- Object production date:
- Postmarked [28 July 1910]
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 28/07/1910
- Date - latest:
- 28/07/1910
- Object production person:
- unknown
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Stereoview of the Menai Suspension Bridge showing pedestrians on the Anglesea end
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Brief description:
- No. 58.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on cream card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/116
- Object production date:
- c.1850 - 1900
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1850-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1900
- Object production person:
- Bedford, Francis (1815 -1894), photographer
- Person's biographical note:
- Francis Bedford initially worked as an artist and lithographer before taking up photography in 1853. He received several Royal commissions and was the first photographer to be appointed on a Royal Tour in 1862. From the late 1850s onwards he produced numerous stereoscopic photographs which documented important sites from across Britain. These were popular and sold in their thousands. Sometimes his wife and two sons feature in his topographical photographs.
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-116.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- Coloured printed postcard showing Clifton Suspension Bridge in the moonlight
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Inscribed on reverse: 'Dear Miss Harding/ I shall not bother about my blouse this week/ Yours/ J Ireland'.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Number of objects:
- One coloured printed postcard
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/3/12
- Object production date:
- [postmarked 30 July 1908]
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 01/01/1908
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1908
- Object production person:
- Valentine & Sons Ltd, publisher
- Person's biographical note:
- Valentines of Dundee was founded in 1851 by James Valentine (1815-1879). Initially concerned with engraving, printing and stationery, the firm soon adopted photography. In 1855 Valentine erected one of the largest photographic glasshouses in Britain. About 1860 he started selling topographical photographs, converting a barouche into a mobile darkroom. His son, William Dobson Valentine (1844-1907), entered the family business in about 1860 after training as landscape photographer in the studios of Francis Frith, the largest English publisher of commercial landscapes at that time.
From 1882 Valentines branched out to include English as well as Scottish views, producing different sizes of grouped prints and stereoscopic photographs. Upon James' death in 1879, his sons William and George Dobson Valentine (1852-1890) took over the company. Based in Dundee, William pioneered large scale photographic processing and photo-mechanical printing and undertook the first unsuccessful attempts at submarine photography in connection with the investigation of the Tay rail bridge disaster early in 1880. In 1898 they started producing picture postcards. In 1900 under Managing Director Harben James Valentine (1872-1949) they became a private limited company, employing their own staff photographers and artists and also buying images from local and national photographers and agencies. By the 1950s, the production of postcards began to wane as greetings cards became more profitable. Failing to take advantage of colour photography, in 1967 they stopped publishing monochrome postcards and by 1970 they ceased publishing postcards altogether.
The major archive of monochrome topographical views by James Valentine & Sons is held by the University of St Andrews Library. For further details of this collection please contact the Library, or refer to http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
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- Title:
- North Wales Illustrated stereoview of the Menai Suspension Bridge showing one of the piers
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Brief description:
- No. 749. Reverse is inscribed: "18/8/65".
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Menai Suspension Bridge, Wales
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on yellow card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/122
- Object production date:
- 18 August 1865
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1865-08-18
- Object production person:
- Bedford, Francis (1815 -1894), photographer
- Person's biographical note:
- Francis Bedford initially worked as an artist and lithographer before taking up photography in 1853. He received several Royal commissions and was the first photographer to be appointed on a Royal Tour in 1862. From the late 1850s onwards he produced numerous stereoscopic photographs which documented important sites from across Britain. These were popular and sold in their thousands. Sometimes his wife and two sons feature in his topographical photographs.
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-122.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/554e4bf7-482c-3ff2-9746-985ca6d580ce
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/554e4bf7-482c-3ff2-9746-985ca6d580ce, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY
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- Title:
- North Wales Illustrated stereoview of the suspension bridge at Conway taken from the Island
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Brief description:
- No. 2608.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Conwy Suspension Bridge, Conwy, Wales
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on yellow card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/105
- Object production date:
- c. 1850 - 1900
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1850-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1900
- Object production person:
- Bedford, Francis (1815 -1894), photographer
- Person's biographical note:
- Francis Bedford initially worked as an artist and lithographer before taking up photography in 1853. He received several Royal commissions and was the first photographer to be appointed on a Royal Tour in 1862. From the late 1850s onwards he produced numerous stereoscopic photographs which documented important sites from across Britain. These were popular and sold in their thousands. Sometimes his wife and two sons feature in his topographical photographs.
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-105.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/cdd64560-2a36-34f2-9df9-2cb1a5f3cf30
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/cdd64560-2a36-34f2-9df9-2cb1a5f3cf30, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY
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- Title:
- Stereoview of the rope bridge at Carrick-A-Rede, Ireland
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to the Aurelius Charitable Trust.
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/144
- Object production date:
- c. 1850 - 1920
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1850-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 31/12/1920
- Object production person:
- unknown
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-144.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0ed844cd-9ad4-3356-b1a0-0a0fa3c359e4
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0ed844cd-9ad4-3356-b1a0-0a0fa3c359e4, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY
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- Title:
- Stereoview of the Avon Gorge showing incomplete bridge in the distance
- Object name(s):
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Credit line:
- This item has been conserved and digitised with thanks to The Murless Fund (SANHS).
- Number of objects:
- 1 stereoscopic photograph mounted on card
- Object name:
- Stereoscopic photograph
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/1/S/8
- Object production date:
- c. 1850s
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1850-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1862-12-31
- Object production person:
- unknown
- Reproduction number:
- AA-1-S-008.jpg
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/7a1ad35a-12f3-3448-a33b-d11c20d64ccf
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/7a1ad35a-12f3-3448-a33b-d11c20d64ccf, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY
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- Title:
- Postcard showing Hungerford Bridge, London
- Object name(s):
- Postcard
- Brief description:
- Inscribed on reverse: 'Called on Margaret Kneebone yesterday. Andrew seems to be better but has been ill with "stones" or kidney trouble & stomach pains. This is London, before your time here [...] George'.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Associated place:
- Hungerford Footbridge, London, England (1845)
- Number of objects:
- 1 colour postcard
- Object name:
- Postcard
- Object number:
- GB 3493 AA/3/82
- Object production date:
- Postmarked [4 October 1961]
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 04/10/1961
- Date - latest:
- 04/10/1961
- Object production person:
- Pyne, artist
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c330e40e-45b6-3227-bb17-fdfcb3246c20
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c330e40e-45b6-3227-bb17-fdfcb3246c20, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY
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