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Carte-de-visite portraits by Samuel Fry, Professional Photographer in Brighton and London

[ABOVE] The trade plate of Samuel Fry & Co. of 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C. , from the reverse of a carte-de-visite (c1864).

[ABOVE] The Globe Photographic Company was established at 83 Gracechurch Street, City of London, in 1865. It appears from this amended trade plate that the firm was formerly known as The Sun Photographic Company.

The Photographic Companies of Samuel Fry & Samuel Herbert Fry

STUDIO NAME

BUSINESS ADDRESS

Years Active

Samuel Fry 79 Kings Road, BRIGHTON

1858-1860

Samuel Fry Forest Hill

 1861-1862

Fry & Colepeper  ? ( 83 Gracechurch Street, LONDON E.C. ? ) LONDON

1862

Samuel Fry & Co. 83 Gracechurch Street, LONDON E.C.

 1862-1865

Globe Photographic Co. 83 Gracechurch Street, LONDON E.C.

1865

Fry, Gush & Ferguson 83 Gracechurch Street, LONDON E.C.

1865

Samuel Fry & Co. 9 Surbiton Park Terrace KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES

 1865-1883

Samuel Fry & Co. Ltd Southsea Road, KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES

1891

Samuel Fry & Co. Ltd 5 Chandos Street, Strand, LONDON W.C. (Photo. Mats.)

1888-1891

S. Herbert Fry 17 Hilldrop Crescent, LONDON,  N.

1898

Samuel Herbert Fry 5 Highbury Grove,  LONDON, N. (Photographic Printer)

1907-1915

[ABOVE] An advertisement for Samuel Fry & Co. Limited (c1891). Around 1883, Samuel Fry disposed of his photographic portrait studio at 9 Surbiton Park Terrace, Surbiton, in order to concentrate on his photographic materials business. Samuel Fry & Co. Limited had a head office in central London at 5 Chandos Street, Strand, near Charing Cross, but the works were situated in Kingston-on-Thames in South-West London.

[ABOVE] The trade plate of Samuel Fry of 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C. and Surbiton Park Terrace, Kingston-on-Thames, from the reverse of a carte-de-visite (c1865).

[ABOVE] The trade plate of Samuel Fry of  9 Surbiton Park Terrace, Kingston-on-Thames, from the reverse of a carte-de-visite (c1870).

Carte-de-visite Portraits by Samuel Fry

[ABOVE] Full length portrait of  a young woman, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C. & Surbiton Park Terrace, Kingston-upon-Thames (c1865). Negative No.4018 [ABOVE] Full length portrait of  a bearded man wearing a uniform, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C. & Surbiton Park Terrace, Kingston-upon-Thames (c1865). Negative No.3816 [ABOVE] The reverse of a carte-de-visite produced by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C.  (c1863). Negative No. 1808 [ABOVE] Full length portrait of man with a fringe beard, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C.  (c1864). Negative No. 2898

 

[ABOVE] Full length portrait of young man with greased-back, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C.  (c1863). Negative No. 1808

[ABOVE] Full length portrait of a young man seated at a desk, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C.  (c1864). Negative No. 2857

[ABOVE] Full length portrait of man with a fringe beard holding a pair of gloves, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C.  (c1862). Negative No. 932

[ABOVE] Full length portrait of a young woman seated at a desk, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C.  (c1863). Negative No. 2405

[ABOVE] Full length portrait of a seated woman holding spectacles, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C.  (c1864). Negative No. 2802 [ABOVE] Full length portrait of a woman, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C.(c1865). [ABOVE] Full length portrait of a boy, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 83 Gracechurch Street, London E. C.  (c1863). Negative No. 1714 [ABOVE] Half-length portrait of  a young woman, a carte-de-visite photograph by Samuel Fry & Co., 9 Surbiton Park Terrace, Kingston-upon-Thames (c1866). Negative No.102

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[ABOVE] The trade plate of Samuel Fry of  9 Surbiton Park Terrace, Kingston-on-Thames, from the reverse of a carte-de-visite (c1872).

 

Samuel Fry (1835-1890)

Samuel Herbert Fry (1860-1921)

 
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Samuel Fry of Brighton and London

[ABOVE] The trade plate of Samuel Fry of  9 Surbiton Park Terrace, Kingston-on-Thames, from the reverse of a carte-de-visite (c1878).

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