User talk:From Hill To Shore

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File:Ac.earlymelb.jpg

Hi. An editor at English Wikipedia has identified the source of File:Ac.earlymelb.jpg as being the State Library of Victoria.[1] The work is out of copyright, so there are no issues there. However, I noticed that they have a version available for download in TIFF format at 59.2 MB (5,246 x 3,943) compared to our own low quality 36 KB (357 × 263). What is the best method of uploading the higher quality version? The higher quality file will need to be cropped either before or after upload as it strays beyond the boundary of the picture. From Hill To Shore (talk) 09:16, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

I notice that there are two variants of this file available at Category:Enterprize (ship, 1829). Should I just crop the border on the higher quality version and upload it as a third file? From Hill To Shore (talk) 09:25, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Request withdrawn. I've found the answer that says unless it is an exact duplicate, it should be uploaded as a new file. As I have cropped the higher quality file, I will upload it separately. From Hill To Shore (talk) 10:29, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

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File:French battleship Bouvet NH 64442.jpg

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1989 (talk) 21:13, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Laurier C. Durette

Nice job on figuring out Laurier C. Durette, I misjudged who he was in the photograph and estimated him as much older. I merged the Familysearch entries. --RAN (talk) 01:45, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Do you think you can identify at least one more photographer in the group photo? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Group_portrait_with_photographer_Will_H._Towles_at_Winona_Lake,_Indiana._AD073.jpg

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): "Maresh, J. J." may be Joseph J. Maresh, who filed a patent for a photgraphic printing machine in 1928.[2] From Hill To Shore (talk) 18:55, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

HMS Carysfort (1914)

Why the revert here? There's no indication that this photo dates from the 1920s. According to the uploader on Wikipedia its at anchor, which is a nonsense. She's under steam and there's a wake at the bow. The photo is most likely shortly after delivery. Broichmore (talk) 14:01, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

@Broichmore: File:Carysfort-1920s.jpg Carysfort was launched in 1914 but you added a creator and category for a photographer who died in 1911. I don't know whether the image is from the 1910s or later but we can be certain that the creator was incorrect. It is possible that it was his son who took the photo but we can't even prove that given the person is named as "E Hopkins." There will have been many people named "E Hopkins" in Portsmouth. From Hill To Shore (talk) 15:02, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

@Broichmore: I am going to work through Category:Ernest Hopkins (photographer) and sort them into three groups.

1. Category:Photographs by Ernest Hopkins for ones made up to 1911 that we are certain were made by him.
2. Category:Photographs possibly by Ernest Hopkins for ones made up to 1911 where we think they may be made by him but lack evidence.
3. Category:Photographs by E Hopkins of Southsea for ones attributed to E Hopkins either before or after Ernest's death.

Some images will go in the first category. Others will go in the third category. Probably a large number will end up in both the second and third categories at the same time.

For those in category two, I'd restore the original author description and set {{Creator:Ernest Hopkins|Possibly}}.

Do you have any issues with this? From Hill To Shore (talk) 18:02, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

They are all E Hopkins of Southsea meaning by him or the son, or issued from the shop/studio owned by him. In books E Hopkins of Southsea is the father. The son was in the Army for WW1, and left Southsea circa 1923 for London (I think). If anyone took the later pictures I suspect the son. In any case there are no records at the IWM. The agent or the shop, marked the negs as E. Hopkins, Similar were sold to Bain News Service, USA and are now at the Library of Congress. 1911 and before is the father, and after must be the son. That accounts for the long gap between 1911 and the the 20's. The business was not viable after the war, but it was asset stripped out and items sold to collectors. All the Southsea studios are a similar story. Broichmore (talk) 18:19, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

The 1920's date ad hoc against images is due errors on the net that the father died in the mid 1920's which was only discovered late in the game. The practise employed by the photographer was to take photos during sea trials or the maiden visit to Portsmouth and sell them as postcards to the crew. Followed by sales to books or news agencies. Broichmore (talk) 18:26, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

@Broichmore: They aren't all for "E Hopkins of Southsea" as some in books have a clear attribution to the father; those can go in a category where we are certain he was the photographer.

To be clear, do you have evidence that the shop was referred to as "E Hopkins of Southsea"? If so, the majority of photos could be by the father, the son, another family member or an unrelated employee. That places greater emphasis on placing the photographs into "possibly by" categories. Do you have any objections to me starting to sort them in a similar way to how I described above?

As a side note, I found this record of a 1916 letter where H Symonds & Co complain about a government ban on the sale of photographs of ships during the first world war (probably as a counter measure against spying). It is probably a key reason why so many studios went out of business. It is also annecdotal evidence that most photographs produced during that time by the studios would have been commissioned by the UK government for use in propaganda. As such, we have a strong argument for Crown Copyright being in effect. From Hill To Shore (talk) 15:39, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

The agencies and photographers referred to themselves or their studios on a casual basis by their home towns. I'm wary of over complicating this. Perhaps we could use two cats. Ernest Hopkins (photographer) for the father and Ernest Hopkins of Southsea for the rest. With the father as sub to the latter. Until a family member or documentation on the son surfaces, we know nothing for certain; other than the business withered away as you have said. The appellation used was Ernest Hopkins of Southsea or E. Hopkins; if there was an A.N. Other then he used that name. I think the other is the son. Broichmore (talk) 21:57, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Village Pump

Hello. Regarding the misidentified image, please see also Commons:Deletion requests/File:Rex Whistler (1905-1944) - Lady Caroline Paget (1913–1976), Later Lady Duff - 1176330 - National Trust.jpg. De728631 (talk) 18:51, 26 November 2021 (UTC)