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collection of its work. This includes 21,800 large-format glass negatives, and around 3,000 prints. The collection also includes some albums and day books, which give a unique insight into the company's activities. It is regarded as an "important source of images of
English architecture and life from 1870 until the Second World War".
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Bedford Lemere (1839-1911) in 1861, with its studio at 147 Strand, London from 1867 to 1947. His son Henry (also known as Harry) Bedford Lemere (1865â1944) joined the firm in 1881 and was one of the best known photographers, and the principal person behind the firm in
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Bedford Lemere & Co. was the leading
English firm of architectural photographers between 1870 and 1930, and pioneered the photography of new buildings. Their images captured the use of new technologies such as the motor car, electric light and motion pictures and the introduction of the steel
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Bedford Lemere & Co's surviving photographs are in the Bedford Lemere Collection, held by Historic England in its public archive in Swindon. The collection contains over a quarter of the firm's output, estimated at 100,000 images and is by far the most important surviving
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Bedford Lemere & Co's client list was wide-ranging; they worked for anyone that needed architectural photography: property companies, estate agents, decorators, businesses needing photographs of their premises or house-owners who wanted photographs of their homes. Bedford Lemere & Co
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The photographer Henry (Harry) Bedford Lemere was born on the 8 August 1865 at 26 Chalcot
Crescent, Primrose Hill, London to the commercial traveller Bedford Lemere and Harriett Anne, nÊe Pennyfeather. He was educated at the City of London School. He died in 1944.
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British architectural photographers active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It was founded by Bedford Lemere (1839-1911) in 1861, with his son Henry (Harry) Bedford Lemere (1865â1944) joining the firm in 1881.
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