Francis Frith
English photographer (1822-1898) · United Kingdom · On the map · Artists · Died at 75
Francis Frith was an English photographer and businessman. 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...
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Francis Frith (after 1850)
Entrance, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Gelatin silver photograph, Brooklyn Museum.
Restored albumen print of the Suez Canal at Ismailia, c. 1860.
The Hypaethral Temple, Philae, by Francis Frith, 1857; from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Four men and a table of food, Egypt.
Francis Frith with the family (after 1850)
Church in Fowey and Frith postcard advert on nearby wall by Francis FrithAbout this person
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.
