Snap-shots taken by Samuel Butler Esq. (1892)
Amateur photography became possible for the first time during the 1880s. Butler purchased a Kodak Detective camera in 1888, and proved a prolific and highly skilled photographer, capturing scenes of the ordinary as well as the extraordinary.
This is the second of five albums, which together contain around 1700 prints and document Butler’s European travels, his views of street life, and his personal take on architecture and art. The majority of his original glass plate negatives are also preserved in the collection, and have undergone digitization.