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DPA Donations and Deposits |
In relation to our collections of donations and deposits the D.P.A. operates like any conventional archive. We accept on deposit material originally assembled by individuals, families, organisations or businesses. Since our interests are focused on the history of photography in general, we are not restricted to records from specific geographical areas. It is only possible here to give a flavour of these collections.
Family Photographs and Albums
As a centre of specialism in the family album the DPA has an extensive range of original cartes de visite, cabinets, postcards, snapshots and family albums of every design from the 1860s
Photographic Societies
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union |
| North Manchester Camera Club (mainly lantern slides) |
| Northern Photographic Group (documentary records), 1960-1973 |
| Half Plate Postal Club, Circle 19, 1979-1989 |
Photographic Businesses
| Lafayette Studio, Manchester (half plate negatives), 1927-1952 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harry Lonsdale Studio, Ramsbottom, 1930s-1950s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Panora (panoramic photographs of school groups). The Panora negatives were deposited with the DPA in 1986 by the managing director of the firm who had sold his business but retained the negatives. They date from 29 September 1968 to 30 July 1985. Earlier negatives have not survived. Each negative differs in length but a typical example is 20½ cm wide by 109 cm long. PANORA NEGATIVES GMCRO has a collection of approximately 4,500 negatives taken by a company called Panora, which specialised in panoramic photographs of school groups. Photographs were taken of schools throughout the country from 1968 to 1985. We are pleased to announce that we are now able to have these negatives (some of which are over a metre in length) scanned, and can produce prints on photographic quality paper. As a pilot project, we have scanned the first two boxes of negatives in the archive, which are listed below. Copies are available from GMCRO for £37, including post and packing. Please make cheques payable to "Greater Manchester County Record Office". Photographs will be sent within 28 days of receipt of orders.
If you wish to know whether photographs of your school are available within GMCRO's archive, please contact us, and we can arrange for the negative to be scanned and digitized. The cost of this service is also £37 including post and packing, but orders will take longer than 28 days to process.
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Private Papers
Collection of George Wakefield, prolific author of manuals on photography and
regular contributor to "Amateur Photographer".
Oral History Collection
The DPA includes a small collection of tape-recorded interviews with people who worked in some aspect of the photographic industry. This collection includes an interview with Harold Shields, of Panora; Chambré Hardman of Liverpool; and Tony Walker, proprietor of the Belle Vue Studio in Bradford.
