Bury St. Edmunds,the Norman Tower, Francis Frith, Views of Suffolk, England, c. 1955

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_Bury St. Edmunds, the Norman Tower, c. 1955_. Views of Suffollk, England.

Exhibition Poster for The Francis Frith Collection of Photographs featuring

Frith & Company's photograph of the Norman Tower in Bury St. Edmunds in 1955.

On semi-gloss photographic paper, in sepia.

(Only removed from frame to take photographs and now stored in a clean poster roll ready for collection).

History of Photography; Suffolk history, Bury St. Edmunds, Francis Frith, Photographic Views of 20th Century Britain


Dimensions:

Length: 51cm (nearly 60 inches)

Height: 40 1/2cm (20 inches)


Francis Frith (1822-1898) was born to a Quaker merchant family, apprenticed in the cutlery business, but became a grocer, supplying ships in Liverpool Harbor. He learned photography in the 1850s when photography was relatively new and was one of the founding members of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1859.

Frith was one of the first of a new type of entrepreneurial photographer to establish himself as a retailer of scenic photographs on a large scale. He traveled extensively from 1856 to 1860 (the Nile Valley, Palestine, and Syria) for the purpose of taking photographs for sale to either tourists in that location or to armchair travellers back home.

When he returned home in 1860, he founded Francis Frith & Co., in Reigate, Surrey with the initial goal of photographing every town and village in England. He hired on photographers to help with this project, soon expanding into photographic postcards, and printing his own photographically illustrated travel books. His firm quickly became the largest photographic publishers in the world and eventually amassed a collection of 330,000 negatives covering over 7,000 population centres across Great Britain and Ireland.

Today, the Francis Frith Collection is a nationally important archive that records the changing face of Britain since 1860 (website listed on the poster).

This poster is a large scale photograph of the Norman Tower in Bury St. Edmunds taken by Frith & Co. in the mid 1950s.


RRP: £30

Collection from CB1 1LH (centre Cambridge) or CB21 (Fulbourn).

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