Photographs taken with a 1917 Camera

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Photographs taken with a 1917 Camera

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Hope these are of interest - I have a 1917 Kodak No 2 Autographic camera, which I can still get film for as it uses 120mm film available from Ilford. I've been using it to take photographs over the past few years and have been using it a lot more often this year.

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The camera itself

Photographs taken in 2008;

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Cross of sacrifice at Tezze British Cemetery, Italy

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Privates Lambert and Knowles of the Middlesex and York & Lancs Regiments respectively, on the Piave

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Italian troops prior to the crossing of the Piave

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A canal running by an old mill in Yorkshire

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Canal basin and industrial buildings in the West Midlands

Photographs taken this year;

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Nearly the same viewpoint as the Black Country Museum photograph taken in 2008, this was taken in January 2011

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1915 Motor Narrowboat 'Peacock'

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Men of 'The Warwicks 1914-18 Living History Group'

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High Force, in Teesdale, County Durham

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Hendon's 1915 Watch Office

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1923 built North Eastern Railway Y7 Locomotive number 985 leaving the reconstructed Rowley Railway Station at Beamish

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The train passing the Hall's Distemper advertisement

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Garage and Motor Showroom in the 1913 Beamish Town

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Sunderland Tram 16

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A view of the Garage and Co-Operative

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Gateshead Tram 10

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Industrial equipment behind a Coal Mine

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1914 British Infantry in camp

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Small section on the march

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1916 British infantry in camp

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Officer's tent

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1916 Matchless motorcycle and sidecar with Vickers machine gun of the Motor Machine Gun Corps

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Battle order, 1916

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Moving up the line on the War Department Light Railway, 1917

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Royal Flying Corps Crossley Tender

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Re: Photographs taken with a 1917 Camera

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Very nice, too. An antique camera taking shots of bygone scenes seem to give the photos a quality of antiquity itself. Thanks.
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I agree with Giners remarks above. BTW was the Halls distemper advert on the ECML near Cramlington. I remember seeing an ad like this from a window of a Newcastle bound DMU.
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52D wrote:I agree with Giners remarks above. BTW was the Halls distemper advert on the ECML near Cramlington. I remember seeing an ad like this from a window of a Newcastle bound DMU.
there used be another halls distemper sign at south gosforth east junction in company with another of the same ilk but i cant recollect what it was like
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Smashing photographs! Can you imagine a modern age digital camera still working when it is over 90 years old? I dont think so!
What speed is the film you are using?
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Really top shots, very evocative. You would not really know they were modern. Do you do all the developing yourself?
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Hi Simon, I cheat i'm afraid - my brother studies photography at University so he develops them for me (he used to do them at college but moved to Uni this year, hence the large gap in having any processed). Originally I had Jessops develop them but the cost was so, so prohibitive it wasn't always worth it when I can't guarantee the results of the photographs
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My latest batch of three films - still another two slightly older ones to be done in the new year

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Sentinel six wheel steam bus

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Newcastle Tram 114 of 1901

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Royal Flying Corps Pilot in Sidcot suit

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RFC Air Mechanics

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1914 Sunbeam Tourist Trophy Racer

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1911 Daimler 38hp Landaulette

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Whitby's old Lifeboat Station

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1904 Humberette (one of the first movie star cars - a Humberette like this starred in 'The ? Motorist' - http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com ... -1906.html )

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Two RFC Air Mechanics

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It's 1914, and the recruits of the 'Durham Pals', who haven't received their uniforms yet and so are still in civilian clothes, are learning to fire the SMLE (Short Magazine Lee Enfield) Rifle

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On the march

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Edwardian North Eastern Railway tiled map, installed around 1901 and still on display at Whitby railway station
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Here's my latest batch;

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Boer War 17th Lancers

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Boer War British Infantry

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Early WW1 - new recruits for the Durham Pals Battalion, still in civilian clothing, are taught to fire the Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle

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Men being instructed on the use of the Webley Mk VI Revolver

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A well earned break for fish and chips

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A 1917 Ford Model T Ambulance

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German Soldiers of IR28

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French 'Poilus' in camp

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French soldiers at a Hotchkiss machine gun position

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British soldiers in a trench, 1916

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Recently returned from the front, these men of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment are having a break in a small Estaminet set up in a camp

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Two Royal Flying Corps Pilots of a Home Defence Squadron
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