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    Photography studio: T Humphries, Osborne Studio, Cattell Road, Small Heath

    Just wondering if anyone has any information about this particular photography studio in Small Heath? Would have been active in the 1880s.
  2. Nettie E

    Photos by Studio Louis of Alum Rock

    Hello everyone. I’m wondering if anyone has family photographs taken at Studio Louis, 104 Alum Rock Road. If you do, I’d love to see them as a member of my family ran the studio from sometime between the 1920s and late 1930s.
    • Nettie E
    • Thread
    • alum rock family photos photography photography studios studio louis
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Old Photographs
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    Late 1880s Birmingham Photography Studio - Angells, Hockley

    Hi there, I've come across what seems to be an 1880s family photograph taken at Angells photography studio on Abbey Street, Hockley. Does anyone on the forum know what dates this studio might have been in business? I'm looking to date the photograph so I know who these family members are...
    • torlaw
    • Thread
    • photography
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Shops
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    Birmingham Camera Companies

    My first thread so apologies if I mess up along the way! I am interested in finding out more about companies in Birmingham who made cameras... At the end of the 19th century we had the largest camera company in the world here, but the history of camera making in the city has been largely...
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    Ghost Streets of Balsall Heath

    Hello folks - long-time lurker, first-time poster. I wanted to flag up a little exhibition we're putting on in Balsall Heath next week, which may be of interest to forum members. It's built around a pile of photos taken by American student Janet Mendelsohn in the late 60s. She spent a lot of...
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    The American Photo Button Co

    Hi, Can anyone tell me whether The American Photo Button Co were in England. I have a photo which I have reason to believe was my husbands Gt Grandfather taken around 1900 but it has the words 'The American Photo Button Co' under the photo. I'm sure that he never travelled to America. I'd...
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