"Stone Photographic Collection"

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Date:1870 - 1914 (c.)

Description:This exhibition features just a few samples from the extensive photographic collection of Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914).

The collection includes 22,000 mounted prints, 17,000 glass negatives, 600 stereographs, 50 albums of collected prints (largely carte de visite and cabinet format), 50 albums of cuttings relating to the photographer and his activities, and Stone's original print and negative index.

Subjects include British customs and festivals, parliamentary portraits, and topographical views and portraiture from Europe, America (North and South), Caribbean, Africa, India, China, Japan and Australasia.

For more information on Stone, go to City Stories and look at 'Questions of Travel'.

Image: originally captioned 'The Kago. A Japanese Conveyance.' 1891.