The Unknown Photographer

The work of an unknown photographer around 1900/10, captured in over 300 glass negatives and now uncovered after a century in the dark. Also on Instagram.

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

Where the adventure starts. 7 boxes, and over 300 glass plates waiting for the light to shine through once more #FacesInTheLight

[BC @mildthing99]

Golden Gate Strait c1900 3 decades before the bridge!
Unmistakeable outline of Angel Island; Possibly Sausolito ferry; Helmet Rock + Lands End
@GGBridge @AngelIslandSP @sfchronicle
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Original 🙏@FacesInTheLight #258
#Swipe @www_re_photos

[BC @mildthing99]

A magnificent early cloudscape c1900: #Cumulus prob over Yapton, W Sussex by Sidney Fletcher.
Possible Léonard Misonne influence?
🙏@FacesInTheLight #242
Restored+colourised using @GeminiApp Nano Banana
#Swipe via @www_re_photos
@CloudAppSoc @StormHour @ThePhotoHour @metoffice

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

@mildthing99 @RGS_IBG @EnglishHeritage Oh wow, I feel so famous. And old 😂

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

@HouseHistorian Thank you Melanie! I'll try and find out more about them and do an extended version at some point.

[BC @mildthing99]

Point Lobos from Cliff House, near @sutrobaths San Francisco, around 120 years ago
By @FacesInTheLight #187 c1900
@sfchronicle
CF Oct 2017 view by David Murillo
https://t.co/1sMHs5Zc9Z

[BC @mildthing99]

⬆️ Unkown Photographer @FacesInTheLight⬆️
Story map updated to include the amazing recent discoveries for photos where location was unknown:
#187 Sutro Baths+Cliff House, San Francisco, CA, USA
#275 Vallebona, Imperia, Liguria, Italy
Photos now geolocated to four continents!

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

I must say this is all thanks to Google Lens which has come on incredibly since we started this!

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

Photo #275. Unknown town location, possibly Southern France? #facesinthelight #blackandwhitephotography #filmphotography #photography #france #photohistory

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

Google Maps is pretty happy too but now we've got a couple of new giant trees...

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

There are some brilliant reference images courtesy of @OpenSFHistory on their site. Could our photo even be 1890? https://t.co/uBTr1no7g4

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

One of the remaining mysteries. UK/French coast with mast.

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

Photo #187. Unknown coastal location with interesting features/early mast? Negative in poor condition. Circa 1910 #facesinthelight #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #coast #seaside #filmcommunity #filmphotography

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

Thanks to help from @CLeeEsq we now know it's San Francisco. After a bit of digging it's turned out to be Cliff House and the Sutro Baths possibly at the very start of construction around 1894 https://t.co/2JWJ6M5vpc @SFHistorical

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

@CLeeEsq Oh wow, that would be brilliant!

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

A couple of the works in progress to go into the full video.

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

We do love a skip...

https://t.co/K7lHhByAiF

[Selling The Past @SellingThePast]

First short video from the series. We explore an advert from 1916 for the Pulteney Hotel in Bath. Full episode for the whole magazine coming soon @bathlive @BathLifeMag @BathEcho @bathnesBRO #cityofbath #localhistory @bathhistor

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

Tankerton. A very special place in the collection.

[The Unknown Photographer @FacesInTheLight]

A wonderful picture of Tankerton by one of our regular Twitter detectives!

[Royal Meteorological Society @RMetS]

Brendan Conway @mildthing99 captured this image of people walking along shingle Street in Tankerton, Kent, exposed at low tide, as they were treated to a spectacular mock mirage sunset over the Thames Estuary

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[BC @mildthing99]

@mr_perez5 @GeogMum @EnserMark @geogthorne @FacesInTheLight Fertile question: Why wouldn't this happen anymore?
https://t.co/OvaWO2CkOQ