Francis Frith: Old Photos, Maps, Books and Gifts
Born into a Quaker family in 1822 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Francis Frith was a remarkable person. The story of his life and the photographic archive that is now his legacy is fascinating beyond compare. After almost being lost to bulldozers forever, the photographs his company created are an amazing and unique step back in time and now ...
Search The Archive - Francis Frith
Counties: Show Modern Counties Within this Archive we use the county listings as defined in 1974, because this fits better with the classification of historic material. However, if you would prefer to view the modern-day equivalent county names you can switch between the two using this button. Modern counties include local unitary authorities ...
Creating a Photographic Record of Britain - Francis Frith
Frith’s studio supplied souvenir photographic prints to retail shops all over the country. The catalogue issued by Frith & Co in 1886 runs to some 670 pages, listing not only many thousands of views of the British Isles but also photographs of most European countries, and China, Japan, the USA and Canada which Francis Frith commissioned from other photographers.
About Francis Frith and our company - Welcome!
We've put together a fascinating 48 page book detailing the Victorian Francis Frith, the archive he started and the company his legacy left behind. Compiled from in-depth company knowledge, illustrated with Frith photographs and featuring key moments in our company's 160 year history this book gives readers an eye-opening account of how the ...
Handpicked Images from the Archives - Francis Frith
Railways. Royalty. Rural Life. Urban Life. Victorian Whimsy. War Memorials. Windmills. Hand Coloured Photographs (498) Photos of Lost Britain (6)
New Photo Releases from The Francis Frith Collection
New Archive Photo Releases. We are excited and proud to announce that we are sharing even more Frith photos here with you. Many have not been seen outside the Archive for over a century! We’ll be publishing all the newly digitised photos over time, because, well, no one can enjoy and absorb this many irreplaceable historical photos in one ...
Our Company - Francis Frith
Our Company. The Francis Frith Collection is a unique, world-class archive, that has been delighting the public since 1860. Since 1977 we have been offering products based on the archive's extraordinary content. Over the last 47 years, millions of customers have purchased our products. Our prints hang in homes, galleries, shops, restaurants ...
francis frith (1822-1898). eady achieved a great deal in his first 38 years:together with a partner he had established a wholesale grocery business in liverpool which was so successful that by 1856 he was able to sell his share for t. equivalent of £15 million at today’s value.had been a founder member of liverpool photographic society in ...
Francis Frith's early career and expeditions in the Middle East
Frith had been a founder member of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1853 – only 14 years after the invention of photography, 1839. Between 1856 and 1860, as a gentleman of leisure, he made three pioneering and sometimes dangerous photographic expeditions to the Middle East, taking bulky cameras, equipment and glass plates with …
The Frith Digitisation Project - Francis Frith
The Frith Digitisation Project. Until recently only around 130,000 photographs from the vast archive of 300,000 images were available to view on the Frith website www.francisfrith.com. Cataloguing, scanning and processing the images is very time-consuming, and for many years the company concentrated its efforts on promoting and marketing this ...