Collection of photographs and related ephemera by George Davison.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image titled "Fire in Oxford Street", dated 1897. Taken with a Folding pocket Kodak camera.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows a tableaux of three women standing in a doorway. One of the women, dressed as a gypsy, is reading the palm of another woman while a third looks on.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "Coal Heavers'", this image was was displayed at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Exhibition and published in Photography News, 16 September 1887.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "Fine New 'Errin'", this image was displayed at the Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition in 1886, and at the Photographic Society of India Exhibition in 1888 as "Fine Fresh Herring"..
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Possibly taken in Lowestoft, Suffolk, portrait of a black fisherman, seated on a large barrel, with rope tackle in the background. He holds a pipe in his left hand.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows a cabbie driving a horse-drawn delivery wagon along the King's Cross to Bread Street route in London. The wagon has a Great Northern Railway advertisement on side of carriage.
Vintage silver gelatin panoramic print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows children on Lowestoft Beach. A group of onlookers are gathered arounda tent, possibly watching a puppet show.
Photograph by George Davison, possibly an oil transfer onto satin. Titled "Ring Horses", this image was displayed at the Salon of 1898 and published in Photograms of the Year, 1898, pp 102.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "Twitch Burning", this image was displayed at the Nottingham Photographic Exhibition, 1888.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "Country Cottage Study", this image was displayed at the Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition in 1887.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows an agricultural harvest scene - farm workers gather hay onto a horse-drawn wagon.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "The Sower", this image was displayed at the Kieghley Photo Society Exhibition and published in Amateur Photographer, 11 January 1889.
Silver gelatin photograph by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows two farmers gathering bundles of wheat during a harvest.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "Entrance to Lowestoft Harbour", this image was displayed in the Photographic Society of Great Britain exhibition of 1886.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows Mrs Davison, wearing a coat, flowered hat, and a fur muff, standing on the sidewalk next to a horse-drawn carriage.
Photogravure in vintage mount, by George Davison. Image shows "Our little school at 'Wernfaur' in summer 1916". Image used as Christmas greetings in 1917. Signed by Davison on front of image and annotated in pencil on inside of mount.
A panoramic photograph of a seafront, probably Lowestoft, taken by George Davison in about 1905. To the left is the beach with its bathing machines. To the right there is a broad promenade and a row of houses. People stroll along the promenade, taking the air. This photograph was taken with a No 4 Panoram Kodak Camera, introduced in 1899.
Photogravure in vintage mount by George Davison, titled "Bridgnorth".
Photogravure entitled 'Joan Jones with baby Doreen' by George Davison, 1921. Davison sent this contemporary nativity scene as a Christmas greeting in December 1921.
1921 Christmas card signed by photographer George Davison. Inscription reads: 'Best wishes for Xmas & New Year from GD, Dec 1921'. Unknown recipient. No envelope present.
Photogravure in vintage mount, by George Davison. Image shows the Welsh town of Harlech as seen from the local golf course. Lavel on verso indicated the image was taken in 1913. Signed by photographer in pencil on front.
Photogravure in vintage mount, by George Davison, titled "Harlech Castle". Signed by photographer in pencil on front. Inscribed in front, bottom left corner 'Wish Mr Thos. Davison Christmas Greetings'.
Photogravure in vintage mount by George Davison. Image shows Lake Maggiore, Piedmont and Lombardy, Italy.
Photogravure entitled 'The Onion Field' by George Davison, 1890. It was taken using a pinhole camera and when first shown in the Photographic Society of Great Britain exhibition, 1890, it was entitled, 'The Old Farmstead'.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image titled "Sea Urchins". Two boys play on a muddy river bank by the remains of a beached paddle steamer. The third boy looks down from his vantage point on the wreck. This photograph was shown in the Oldham Exhibition of 1888.
Silver gelatin photograph by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows a scene in an English village. Children play on the bank of a river while cows wade in the water.
Silver gelatin photograph by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "A Village Street", this photograph was displayed at the Vienna International Photographic Exhibition of 1888.
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image titled "Sea Urchins". Two boys play on a muddy river bank by the remains of a beached paddle steamer. The third boy looks down from his vantage point on the wreck. This photograph was shown in the Oldham Exhibition of 1888.
Silver gelatin photograph by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows four children playing on the bank of a river. One child is using a home-made fishing pole.
A panoramic photograph of a seafront, probably Lowestoft, taken by George Davison in about 1905. Image shows liesure seekers in Edwardian dress walking along the beach promenade in Lowestoft, Suffolk. A row of bathing machines can be seen on the beach, and a group of donkeys wait to be ridden out.
