Edmund Wheeler junior - cdv Gallery 3
Edmund Wheeler junior - Carte-de-visite Portraits (Gallery Three)
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The photographer Edmund
Wheeler junior (1836-1930) produced carte-de-visite
portraits at his studio at 43 Western Road, Brighton, between
1870 and 1906. Cartes-de-visite were small photographic paper prints
on card mounts the same
size as conventional visiting cards (roughly 21/2
inches by 41/4
inches or 6.3 cm
by 10.5 cm). This photographic format
originated in France and so a small portrait mounted on card
came to be known as a 'carte-de-visite',
the
French term for visiting
card, although, in England, these small photographic portraits were occasionally referred to as "album
portraits". Edmund Wheeler introduced a novel method of identifying the year a particular photograph was taken by adding a suffix to the negative number, which was customarily written in ink on the reverse of carte-de-visite portraits. Each letter of the alphabet represented a particular year of business. The letter "A" matched the year 1873, the letter "B" corresponded to the year 1874, and so on, until the letter "Z" was reached. During the 1890s and early 1900s, Edmund Wheeler added a double letter suffix to his negative reference numbers.
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The Photographic Negative Codes for Edmund Wheeler's Cartes-de-visite which use double letter suffixes (1893 -1907) |
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DATES |
suffix |
Negative Nos. |
NOTES |
DATES |
suffix |
Negative Nos. |
NOTES |
1893-1894 |
AA |
000-3200 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (back). "ALL NEGATIVES PRESERVED". Printer: TRAPP & MUNCH | 1900-1901 |
HH |
000-2500 |
E. Wheeler (front) Ivory coloured card. Embossed crazed design border frame. Plain Back. |
1894-1895 | BB |
000-1500 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (back). "ALL NEGATIVES PRESERVED". Printer: TRAPP & MUNCH | 1901-1902 | JJ | 000-2500 |
E. Wheeler (front) Ivory coloured card. Embossed crazed design border frame. Plain Back. |
1895-1896 | CC |
000-1100 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (back). "ALL NEGATIVES PRESERVED". Printer: TRAPP & MUNCH | 1902-1903 | KK | 000-2500 |
E. Wheeler (front) Ivory coloured card. Embossed crazed design border frame. Plain Back. |
1896-1897 | DD |
000-500 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (back). "ALL NEGATIVES PRESERVED". Printer: TRAPP & MUNCH | 1903-1904 | LL | 000-4000 |
E. Wheeler (front) Ivory coloured card. Embossed crazed design framed border. Plain Back. |
1897-1898 |
EE |
000-2200 |
E. Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (back). "ALL NEGATIVES PRESERVED". Printer: TRAPP & MUNCH | 1904-1905 | MM | 000-4000 |
E. Wheeler (front) Ivory coloured card. Embossed crazed design framed border. Plain Back. |
1898-1899 | FF |
000-2500 |
E. Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (back). "ALL NEGATIVES PRESERVED". Printer: TRAPP & MUNCH | 1905-1906 | NN | 000-4000 |
E. Wheeler (front) Ivory coloured card. Embossed crazed design framed border. Plain Back. |
1899-1900 | GG |
000-2800 |
E. Wheeler (front) Cream card. Plain Back. | 1906-1907 | PP | 000-4000 |
E. Wheeler (front) Ivory coloured card. Embossed crazed design framed border. Plain Back. |
Carte-de-visite Portraits by Edmund Wheeler of 43 Western Road, Brighton (1896-1906) |
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[ABOVE] The reverse of the carte-de-visite portrait illustrated on the right, produced in 1896 by the photographer Edmund Wheeler of 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No. 314DD. Printer: TRAPP & MUNCH. | [ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of a bearded man, photographed around 1896 at the studio of Edmund Wheeler at 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No. 314DD. | [ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of a mother and her children, photographed around 1898 at the studio of Edmund Wheeler at 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No. 1392 FF. | ||||||
[ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of "Auntie Mu", produced around 1898 at the studio of Edmund Wheeler at 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No. 4463FF. | [ABOVE] The reverse of the carte-de-visite portrait illustrated on the left, produced around 1898 by the photographer Edmund Wheeler of 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No. 4463FF. Printer: TRAPP & MUNCH. | [ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of a bearded man, photographed around 1898 at the studio of Edmund Wheeler at 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No.2044FF. | [ABOVE] The reverse of the carte-de-visite portrait illustrated on the left, produced around 1898 by the photographer Edmund Wheeler of 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No. 2044FF. | |||||
[ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of an unknown woman, photographed around 1900 at the studio of Edmund Wheeler at 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No.2124HH. | [ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of a man with a moustache, photographed around 1903 at the studio of Edmund Wheeler at 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No.3755LL. | [ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman, photographed around 1906 at the studio of Edmund Wheeler at 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No. 3643PP. | [ABOVE] The reverse of the carte-de-visite portrait illustrated on the left, produced around 1906 by the photographer Edmund Wheeler of 43 Western Road, Brighton. Negative No. 3643PP. |
The Photographic Negative Codes for Edmund Wheeler's Carte-de-visite Photographs with the corresponding dates for each letter of the alphabet (A-Z :1870-1897) |
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DATES |
suffix |
Negative Nos. |
NOTES |
DATES |
suffix |
Negative Nos. |
NOTES |
DATES |
suffix |
Negative Nos. |
NOTES |
1870-1873 |
000-1000 |
EW monogram. Brown printing & line border. E. WHEELER |
1880-1881 |
H |
000-1800 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (back). Marion Imp | 1889-1890 | R |
000-2000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch | |
1873-1874 |
A |
000-3200 |
EW monogram. Brown printing & line border. E. WHEELER | 1881-1882 | J |
000-2000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch | 1890-1891 | S |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch |
1874-1875 | B |
000-1500 |
EW monogram. Brown printing & line border. E. WHEELER | 1882-1883 | K |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch | 1891-1892 | T |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch |
1875-1876 | C |
000-1100 |
EDMUND WHEELER. Ivory card. Red printing. | 1883-1884 | L |
000-1500 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch | 1892-1893 | U |
000-2500 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). TRAPP & MUNCH |
1876-1877 | D |
000-2000 |
EDMUND WHEELER. Ivory card. Elaborate text. | 1884-1885 | M |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch | 1893-1894 | V |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). TRAPP & MUNCH |
1877-1878 |
E |
000-2200 |
EDMUND WHEELER. Marion Imp, Decorative text. Ivory card. | 1885-1886 | N |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch | 1894-1895 | W(AA) |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). TRAPP & MUNCH |
1878-1879 | F |
000-2000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front). Ivory card. Decorative text. | 1886-1887 | P |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch | 1895-1897 | X/Y(BB) |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). TRAPP & MUNCH |
1879-1880 | G |
000-3000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (back). | 1887-1888 | Q |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). Trapp & Munch | 1896-1898 | Z(CC) |
000-1000 |
Edmund Wheeler (front) Cream card. Decorative text (bk). TRAPP & MUNCH |
Acknowledgements |
A special thank you to Roger Vaughan, author of the informative
website
Victorian and Edwardian
Photographs and
owner of the
Roger Vaughan Photograph Collection.
Roger Vaughan was the first
person to draw my attention to Edmund Wheeler's novel method of
identifying the year a particular photograph
was taken.
Roger Vaughan
noticed that
Edmund
Wheeler added a "letter suffix" to the negative number, with
each letter of the alphabet representing a particular year of business.
WEBSITE: Roger Vaughan's website Victorian and Edwardian Photographs - Roger Vaughan Photograph Collection (Roger Vaughan's article on Victorian Photograph Card Printers has been especially helpful). |
Edmund Wheeler of Brighton: Galleries of Photographic Portraits |
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Edmund Wheeler's Carte-de-visite Portraits: Gallery One (1872-1880) | |
Edmund Wheeler's Carte-de-visite Portraits: Gallery Two (1881-1895) | |
Edmund Wheeler's Carte-de-visite Portraits: Gallery Three (1896-1906) | |
Edmund Wheeler's Cabinet Portraits: Gallery Three (1896-1906) |
To read an account of the life and photographic career of Edmund Wheeler junior of 43 Western Road, Brighton, click on the link below: |