Original charming sepia toned Victorian cabinet card of Victorian school infant children outside a school building, with school teachers or teaching assistants by Stickells & Sons, who were based in Cranbrook, Kent, but active in Sussex and Surrey making this school's location unknown but in South East England, Dated 1884.
Dated to 1884 from the following information: In the early 1880s, David Stickells brought his eldest son into the business as a junior partner and during the early 1880s, the carte-de-visite portraits produced by David Stickells are marked "Stickells & Son". By this time, the Stickells family had settled in Cranbrook in Kent and David Stickells had established a permanent photographic portrait studio in this market town's High Street. Kelly's Directory of Kent, published in 1882, lists Stickells & Son as "portrait and landscape photographers" in High Street, Cranbrook. By 1884, David Sickells' two sons, Ambrose and Arthur, were assisting him in his Cranbrook studio and for a brief time the photographs carried the legend "Stickells & Sons, Cranbrook". In 1884, David Stickells agreed it was time for his eldest son Ambrose, then twenty years of age, to branch out on his own as a professional photographer. David Stickells, who by this date was operating a permanent photographic portrait studio in Cranbrook's High Street, provided his son with some working capital and equipped him with a horse-drawn photographer's van with which to tour the towns and villages of Kent and Sussex. With his eldest son, Ambrose, on the road as a travelling photographer, David Stickells was assisted in the studio by his younger son Arthur Edward Stickells (born 1869, Ashford). Photographs produced at David Stickells' studio in the High Street of Cranbrook now carried elaborate designs finely printed publicity on the reverse rather than the simple rubber-stamped trade plates that appeared on his photographs during his itinerant period. Studio portraits taken at David Stickell's Cranbrook studio in the late 1880s continued to carry the name of D. A. Stickells & Son. Source:
Size: 8304px × 5481px
Location: UK
Photo credit: © ThislifeThen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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