Catalogue description Robert Brookman collection of railway photographs

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Details of The Brookman Collection
Reference: The Brookman Collection
Title: Robert Brookman collection of railway photographs
Description:

The 3½ x 2½ to 5½ x 3½ ins glass negatives include early action photographs of Great Northern trains at Potters Bar, Oakleigh Park, Doncaster and Boston, taken between about 1889 and 1894. There are also images, by an unknown photographer, of GWR trains at Paddington and in Devon, dating from about 1907 to 1929, together with some photographs of models and drawings. A few are copy negatives.

 

There is a manuscript list in which 75 negatives are grouped by railway company and wheel arrangement. Engine numbers, angles of view, locations and dates are also given.
Date: c1889-1932
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Brookman, Robert, fl 1889-1932
Physical description: 90 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

These photographs, acquired in 1985 as part of the K H L Leech collection, include the work of P W Pilcher, whose negatives also feature in the Burtt collection. (Further references to Pilcher, Burtt and Leech are to be found in other NRM collections).

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