Francis Frith (also spelled Frances Frith, 7 October 1822 – 25 February 1898) was an English photographer and businessman.[1] Francis Frith & Co., the company he founded in 1860 with the initial goal of photographing every town and village in England, quickly became the largest photographic publishers in the world and eventually amassed a collection of 330,000 negatives covering over 7,000 population centres across Great Britain and Ireland.[2]
Frith was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, attending Quaker schools at Ackworth and Quaker Camp Hill in Birmingham (c. 1828–1838), before he started in the cutlery business. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1843, recuperating over the next two years.[3] In 1850 he started a photographic studio in Liverpool, known as Frith & Hayward. A successful grocer, and later, printer, Frith fostered an interest in photography, becoming a founding member of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1853.[4] Frith sold his companies in 1855 in order to dedicate himself entirely to photography. He journeyed to the Middle East on three occasions between 1856 and 1860, taking with him three glass plate cameras, the largest of which measured 16" x 20".[5] He used the collodion process, a major technical achievement in hot and dusty conditions.
^Scan of the birth certificate, Public Record Office
^Jackson, Sarah (12 August 2000). "House of Cards". Amateur Photographer. pp. 31–34. ISSN 0002-6840.
^"Francis Frith". MoMA. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
^The current organisation called "Liverpool Photographic Society" claims to have been founded in 1952. The South Liverpool Photographic Society Archived 10 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 15 June 2008.
^Watterson, Barbara & Pickavance, Kathleen M. (1984). "The Photographs of Francis Frith (1822-1898): A Victorian View of Ancient Egypt". Archaeology. Vol. 37, no. 6. New York: Archaeological Institute of America. pp. 48–53. ISSN 0003-8113 – via JSTOR.
FrancisFrith (also spelled Frances Frith, 7 October 1822 – 25 February 1898) was an English photographer and businessman. FrancisFrith & Co., the company...
himself. He was important in the history of photography, having given FrancisFrith invaluable assistance in producing his 1856 photographs in Egypt. John...
modern city. English Heritage Dunning, Martin (2001). Around Plymouth. Frith Book. Gill, Crispin (1993). Plymouth: A New History. Devon Books. Robinson...
in Aswan List of ancient Egyptian sites, including sites of temples "FrancisFrith (1822-98) - Another view of the temple of Gerf-Hossayn". www.rct.uk...
and Republic of Ireland. 1991. p. 419. "Crewe, Nantwich Road c.1965". FrancisFrith. Retrieved 24 August 2022. "High Street Improvement". Liverpool Echo...
technique were French photographer Félix Bonfils, British photographer FrancisFrith and American photographer William Henry Jackson, all active in the 1880s...
Retrieved 5 June 2010. "Greater Manchester Photographic Memories". FrancisFrith. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2011...
ISBN 1-85983-322-5 FrancisFrith's Swindon Living Memories (Photographic Memories S.), FrancisFrith and Brian Bridgeman, The Frith Book Company Ltd, 2003...
Ken, ed. (2000). Around Camberley : Photographic memories. Salisbury: FrancisFrith. ISBN 978-1-85-937222-7. Clarke, Ken (2005). The Royal Albert Orphanage...
Sources and Documents. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. Rhodes, Robin Francis (1995). Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis. Cambridge University...
2022. "Hemel Hempstead, The Top Of The World, Warners End c.1965". FrancisFrith. Retrieved 30 November 2022. "Preview of the new M1 motorway - archive...
Kingdom Births Deaths and Marriages "Francis William Reckitt looking over Dunster Village, Somerset". FrancisFrith. Archived from the original on 10 September...
Victoria Hotel with 100 rooms. Hardy, Clive (2000) FrancisFrith's Greater Manchester. Salisbury: FrancisFrith Collection; pp. 67–69, 71 Laurent (1793) "Plan...
East and Africa: International Dictionary of Historic Places. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-884964-03-6. ISBN 9781884964039 (13). Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841)...
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