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Please Could you Date this Photograph of Edith Lea
« on: Sunday 11 August 19 15:09 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone. I'm just doing some research on a photo I have from the 1880s. I wondered if anyone could pinpoint a particular date in the 1880s based on her fashion. Thank you for any help!

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Re: Please Could you Date this Photograph of Edith Lea
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 13 August 19 10:02 BST (UK) »
I would have said it was 1870s
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Re: Please Could you Date this Photograph of Edith Lea
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 13 August 19 10:06 BST (UK) »
Agree with Carol - 1870s  :)
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Re: Please Could you Date this Photograph of Edith Lea
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 13 August 19 10:57 BST (UK) »
Thank you for the responses! Apparently the studio where it was taken was open around 1881-1893. And the card design at the back dates from 1881 at the latest. The lady in the photo was also born in 1860 and I think she may look early 20s? Hmm, so it's a bit confusing! Unless she happens to be wearing older fashion at the time or somehow this studio got the glass negative plates. Any ideas?  :)

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Re: Please Could you Date this Photograph of Edith Lea
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 13 August 19 11:56 BST (UK) »
It could be a reprint.
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Re: Please Could you Date this Photograph of Edith Lea
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 13 August 19 12:11 BST (UK) »
When George Denney married Ellen Pearse in August 1878 he was a Woollen Draper, by 1881 he was a photographer.  George & Ellen are at 21 St Sidwell Street after the 1881 census
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Re: Please Could you Date this Photograph of Edith Lea
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 13 August 19 12:31 BST (UK) »
Her hair is typical 1870s.

It might be worth checking these online examples:

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~victorianphotographs/history/date/main.htm
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Re: Please Could you Date this Photograph of Edith Lea
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 13 August 19 12:34 BST (UK) »
Quote from: rosie99 on Tuesday 13 August 19 12:11 BST (UK)
When George Denney married Ellen Pearse in August 1878 he was a Woollen Draper, by 1881 he was a photographer.  George & Ellen are at 21 St Sidwell Street after the 1881 census

Missed this, Rosie, as I was called away and have only just posted what I'd written a while ago!

There's no sign of a ring so I'm thinking that it might well be a pre-marriage photo that he possibly reprinted in the 1880s
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Re: Please Could you Date this Photograph of Edith Lea
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 13 August 19 12:43 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Gadget on Tuesday 13 August 19 12:34 BST (UK)
Quote from: rosie99 on Tuesday 13 August 19 12:11 BST (UK)
When George Denney married Ellen Pearse in August 1878 he was a Woollen Draper, by 1881 he was a photographer.  George & Ellen are at 21 St Sidwell Street after the 1881 census

Missed this, Rosie, as I was called away and have only just posted what I'd written a while ago!

There's no sign of a ring so I'm thinking that it might well be a pre-marriage photo that he possibly reprinted in the 1880s

The photographer is E. Denney & Co. I'm not sure who E. Denney is? Here is an example of his advertisement.

Edith Cecilia Lea, the lady in the photo, wasn't married until 1908.
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