Vintage 
Framed & Mounted
PRINT 
from an Original 1897
Photograph Negative of
QUEEN VICTORIA
STREET
in London
Number L55

A beautiful framed picture of an iconic Street in London, from The Francis Frith Collection. Frame has scratches/minor wear, with a hardboard backing.

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(note: I have three other 
Frith Pictures in similar frames)

This print is from a unique archive of original photographic negatives containing some 60,000 views of town and villages throughout Britain, taken between 1860 and 1940.

The Founder, Francis Frith, was a pre-eminent pioneer photographer whose tireless effort has captured for posterity, those scenes of rural and urban life that so fascinate us today.

The superb quality clarity and detail of these original negatives have made it possible to produce this fine print.

Francis Frith, aka Frances Frith {1822–1898} was an English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom. 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. 

Frith suffered a nervous breakdown in 1843, and recuperated over the next two years. 

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. Frith sold his companies in 1855 in order to dedicate himself entirely to photography. He journeyed to the Middle East on three occasions, the first of which was a trip to Egypt in 1856 with very large cameras (16"x20"). He used the collodion process, a major technical achievement in hot and dusty conditions.

Queen Victoria Street, named after the British monarch who reigned from 1837 to 1901, is an iconic street in the City of London. The road was commissioned in 1861 to streamline the approach to the central business district, and was provided for through the Metropolitan Improvement Act. Costing over £1,000,000, it remains a major street within the City of London. Its construction demolished New Pye Street, named after Sir Robert Pye.