Photopress Ltd.

News agency active mid-twentieth century

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One photograph titled ‘Lancashire’s great cotton drive’. Caption on the back reads ‘Cotton being wound into reels on the most modern machinery in the world.’ [A longer caption is attached to the back of the photograph.]

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One photograph of two male technicians working on the organ flue titled 'World's largest organ'. Caption on back reads: 'Work is approaching completion on the world's largest organ which is to be at the Royal Albert Hall, it has 9,000 sounding pipes and 176 stops which with the bellows took a whole season to install. This wonderful organ will replace the old Willis organ of 1879'.

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A photographic print from the Daily Herald Archive folder: Industry » Forestry Commission, Research, etc.

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One photograph of F.C. McDonald, a harp maker of 40 years, fixing a concert harp titled '40 years as a harp maker'. Caption on back reads: 'In a shop off the Old Brompton road is a workshop, the only one it its kind in England, where harps are made and repaired. Mr. J.S. Morley, is the owner, and the business was started in 1816 by his grandmother. Harp making and repairing requires great craftmanship and will never be ousted by mechanical production.

Daily Herald Photograph: Harp making
A photographic print from the Daily Herald Archive folder: Industry » Hats.

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A photographic print from the Daily Herald Archive folder: Industry » Tobacco.

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