Mr Joseph Collings was a renowned photographer in the Cardiff area as this extract from an article on the subject of early photography in Cardiff by Stephen Rowson indicates. It is taken from The National Library of Wales Journal - Vol. 29, No. 4 of 1996. [601] [603]
'The Travel Album - By the 1880's travellers were buying loose albumen prints and pasting them into albums as souvenirs of their grand tours of Britain and abroad. Alfred Freke and John Long sold views of Cardiff but by far the best local studio was Collings'. From 1864 Joseph Collings took a memorable series of high quality large format views of Cardiff, Penarth and surrounding areas. His use of 12" x 10" glass negatives assured him of meticulous detail and this is particularly evident in his industrial studies. Collings record the excavation and building of Penarth Dock, Roath Dock, and some of the civil engineering associated with local railway construction. . . He died in 1875. . . '
left - The reverse of a small photograph of a lady by Mr. Collings c. 1870. [001]
