ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Explore the database of all the people associated with the Pitt Rivers English collections. This gives information about their lives; their education, careers, place of residence, and their network of friends and colleagues. Select the first letter of their surname from the list below.

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Negretti and Zambra

Career Photographer / Trader

Biography Photographic studio and producer of optical and scientific instruments based in London. Negretti & Zambra, Hatton Garden & Cornhill, London. Henry Negretti (1817-1879) and Joseph Warren Zambra (d. 1877) were in partnership from 1850 and sold a variety of scientific instruments. In the late 1850s they had expanded their business to include the publication of stereo photographs and by 1879 they were one of Britain's largest photographic publishing companies. They were official photographers of the Crystal Palace Company. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 14/09/2007]

Biography References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negretti_and_Zambra / http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/macleay/01VE/veb1/veb1atoz.html

County London [Greater]

Relationship Photographer / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Photographs

Date made around 1859

Dates active 1850-?c 1935

Donated around 1917

English collections Photograph of models of Zulu people in naturalistic setting at the Great Exhibition 1859 at Crystal Palace

Institution Yes

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 2

Connections Edward Burnett Tylor