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PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Frank Butterworth Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Birmingham
1920s-1930s
photographic paper; cardboard
overall: 111 mm x 166 mm

Black and white photographic print of a shell spectacle frame maker in the tortoiseshell frame workshop at Frank Butterworth Ltd, Graham Street, Birmingham, showing a worker with his back to the camera, holding a section of shell up to the light while other sections of carapace are laid out on the bench in front of him. White border. Mounted on stiff cardboard. Typewritten caption pasted over upper front surface of print.


2021.282

Gift of Mr Colin Butterworth, 2021



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