Unidentified photographer / artist
1857
Birmingham Photographic Society - Rules and Regulations of the Photographic Exchange Club

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Advert included in Thomas Sutton "A treatise on the positive collodion process" (London: Bland & Long, 1857)
 
BIRMINGHAM PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF THE
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE CLUB,
IN CONNEXION WITH THE ABOVE SOCIETY.
 
Associated for the Purpose of Receiving and Exchanging Photographs between its Members.
 
Those only to be considered Members who shall intimate their intention to the Secretary, and at the same time transmit a subscription of two shillings in postage stamps to cover the expense of printing, &c.
 
The photographs for exchange to be transmitted per post, pre-paid, to the Secretary, not mounted on cardboard, but rolled round a thin, light (if possible) hollow rod, and an amount of stamps enclosed to pre-pay return postage. The Committee would suggest that each member have his or her name and address legibly written on the rod, so that trouble may be saved to the Committee when they make up the exchanges.
 
The Committee will endeavour to allot to each Member photographs of an equal quality to those transmitted, and a register will be kept in which will be entered the numbers, subjects, name and address of each sender, and the names of subjects exchanged. Therefore it is requested that the name of the photographer and the subject of the picture be attached firmly to each picture.
 
The exchange will be effected once a month, or according to the number of pictures in the hands of the Committee.
 
If any extraordinarily fine or large proofs be sent, for which no equivalents may be found, notice will be given and attention called to the subject, through the medium of Mr. Sutton's Photographic Notes."
 
E. BECKINGHAM, Secretary,
103, Great Hampton Street.
 
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