Thursday 19 August 2021

Clarissa Frances Miles - An overlooked early Stonehenge Photographer.

 Who was Clarissa Frances Miles - pioneer photographer of Stonehenge? Described by @MartynBarber2 as "a friend of the Antrobuses" who gives her address as Amesbury Abbey when claiming copyright for her photographs, now at the National Archive.


"born in 1860 at Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England.1 She was the daughter of Colonel Charles William Miles and Maria Susannah Hill" - http://www.thepeerage.com/p53357.htm#i533566



For more research by Martyn Barber see: https://threadreaderapp.com/convos/1362706181983207425

seems to have 46 photos - DZSWS:1986.7412/58 (search Stonehenge 1901 wiltshireheritagecollections.org.uk )

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