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About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters
OK, that’s not what W.H. Auden actually wrote, but while I have been enjoying the selections of photographs made by Tom Larkin for our new Instagram feed — @hpcbristol, go on, follow us — Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, children, cigarettes, Hong Kong, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, photographers, poster, street
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Sending up a balloon, c.1925
Modern marketing – attracting attention to a product in a new way. Here in 1925, the British American Tobacco Company are sending up a balloon to advertise ‘Hatamen’ cigarettes (Pa01-33). The location is not verified, but it may well be … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, balloon, cigarettes
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Metropole Hotel, Shanghai, 1930 上海新城饭店老照片
This photograph (BS-s11) of the Metropole Hotel under construction, is from the British Steel Archive Project, in Teesside, from whence came the girders for the building’s steel frame. The Metropole was designed by Palmer and Turner, and was built on … Continue reading
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Tagged advert, advertising, architecture, bamboo, billboard, BSAP, building, car, Chrysler, construction, crane, Goodyear, policeman, poster, rickshaw, Sikh, steel, tire, tram, tyre, vehicle
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You press the button, we do the rest
Here then is ‘the rest’: at this Kodak Professional School in Shanghai in 1923, students are learning to spool and process negatives, enlarge, develop, fix and dry prints, then guillotine and dry mount them – the skilful practical application of … Continue reading
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Tagged advert, advertising, business, chemical, chemistry, Crellin, darkroom, developer, dryer, education, enlarger, guillotine, Kodak, laboratory, negatives, photograph, photographs, photography, print, safelight, scales, snap, snaps, studio, timer, training
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