Daily Herald Photograph: John Kay memorial

PART OF:
The photographic library of the 'Daily Herald' newspaper
Made:
1880-1890 in Burnley and Bury
maker:
Daily Herald

One photograph titled ‘Cotton’. Handwritten caption on the back reads: ‘Memorial to John Kay, Bury inventor of the fly-shuttle 1733’. [Dates provided are an estimate based on similar photographs on SSPL: https://www.ssplprints.com/search/artist/142147/crabtree-j-a. However, this is likely a copy print of an older print or negative and could therefore date from decades later.]

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/53735
Materials:
paper
type:
photographic print