Dairy Pavilion at the 1912 Bath & West Agricultural Show, Cardiff
Category
Photographs
Date
1912
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
171 x 158 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522898.10
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in original buff paper wallet, in landscape format, depicting a dairy pavilion (an open sided stall) at the 1912 Bath & West Agricultural Show in Cardiff. There are signs on the stand which read: "A.W. Farmer Newport, Mon." and "Junket & Cream, Fruit & Cream", "Prize Butter" and "A.W. Farmer, Woodside Dairy". Five women stand behind the counter; there are several chairs and tables to the right hand side. Other smaller signs advertise cream, soda etc. The Bath & West Agricultural Show then toured the country between 1852 and 1965 (and then a permanent home was found at Shepton Mallet). The buff coloured paper wallet (part of the "Negasys" storage system - see General Note below) is pre-printed in black ink with a form where details of the photograph can be recorded: Date, Subject, Stop & Exposure, Exposure for Transparency, Exposure for Bromide, Exposure for Gaslight Paper, Print Meter No for Carbon etc, and Note. The wallet has a flap, upon which is printed in black ink the number "9". Markings: Handwritten in black ink against "Date": '1912', and against "Subject": 'Dairy Pavilion, B&W Show, Cardiff'. The emulsion side of the plate has been varnished for protection. Part of the Christie Miller Collection.
Provenance
Donated to the Fox Talbot Museum in 1976 by (the daughter of the photographer) Jane Wakefield Christie-Miller (1922-2017) of Swyncombe House, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6EA