The Hardman Commercial Portraiture Collection

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Primary Content:

This collection comprises of over 127,000 half plate / large format monochrome negatives, most of which are currently stored in old biscuit tins held within Liverpool Central Library. The work was taken by the Liverpool photographer Edward Chambre Hardman (1898-1988) over a 40 year period, starting in the early 1920's. The portraits mainly depict people from the communities in the North West of UK, specifically Merseyside and the collection spans WW2, so therefore contains many portraits of servicemen and women. As part of a research project run through Manchester Metropolitan University I have digitised the 11 accompanying studio registers for this collection, which detail the names of who the 127,000 sitters were. Contact me directly to run searches on this data.

Photographers:

Edward Chambre Hardman, Margaret Hardman/Mills

Date Range:

1923-1963

Studios/Companies:

Burrell & Hardman Ltd, Liverpool

Is your collection accessible to the public?:

Opening hours (if applicable):

It is difficult to gain access to this collection due to the nature of the material. The work is currently stored in freezers within the library archive, as much of the material was shot on cellulose nitrate.

Contact Details

Keith W Roberts

http://www.hardmanportrait.format.com

Licensing Info

If, however, there are multiple external copyright holders, can you give a rough estimate of how many?:

The images may be retained by the PCN and viewed in private for purposes of research, but not displayed on its website.

Do you own the copyright in your collection?:

Basic, non-commercial licence in place?:

Don't know

Do you have the facility to license images from your collection to external parties?:

Photographic Processes:

B&W / historic negative images

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