Starting point
A listing of 220 Sheffield and thirty-four Rotherham professional photographers ... now, there's a challenge.
This article first appeared in the Transactions of the Hynter Archaeological Society and is reproduced by kind permission of the Society.
THE BIRTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN SHEFFIELD 1840-1870
By D.J. Smith
Since the invention of Photography some 140 years ago the world has been overwhelmed by its use in a way its inventors could scarcely have foreseen. The use of photographs in books, magazines, and in advertising has widened the horizons of millions previously able to vie