Etruscan Bread Winners, Photograph Album, 1898
Type: Photograph album
Author: Photographs taken by Harry Barnard
Publication Date: September 1898
Collection: The Wedgwood Museum Archive Collection
Collection Physical Description: Bound album of photographs labelled on front page: 'Some of the employees of Messrs Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Limited. Photographs taken on the Works, during July and August, 1898'. The photographs in this album are of groups of staff within Wedgwood Limited. They are annotated with the names of those who appear in the photographs. The photographs include: Tile Makers; Warehouse and Packers; Jasper (Black Bank) Throwers and Turners; Glost Oven (Earthenware); Earthenware (White Bank) Potters; Jasper Warehouse and Oven; Jasper Decorators; Printers and Transferers (Earthenware); Paintresses (Earthenware); Slip-houses and Mill; Biscuit Oven and Warehouse (Earthenware); Paintresses (apprentices) (Earthenware); Warehouses; Printers and Transferers (Earthenware); Majolica and Tile (decorated); Oddmen (Engineers, Joiners, Bricklayers); Oddest Men, Biscuit Oven (tile), Glost Oven (tile), Tile Fiyers [sic], Warehouse, Office, Draughtsman, Artists and Master; Slip Decorators; Office Staff; Gilders; China Potters; Fire Brigade. N.B. The album also contains some photographs of parts of the works, for example, a 'Portion of China Works', and 'Artist's Rooms and Cooper's Yard'. The men listed in the photograph of 'Earthenware (White Bank) Potters' include: Aaron Eaton; James Both; James Leech; Joseph Bates; Thomas Bloor; Arthur Eardley; John Cartlidge; Joseph Rhodes; Michel Sweeney; Fred Cartlidge Junior; Earnest Tittensor; Jonathan Rhodes; John Swan; John Williams; Albert Wright; Robert Brown; Dowler; John Shuffterotham; Albert Tittensor; George Cook; Charles Matthews; Charles Pope; James Cheney; Frank Emery. Note that no modellers or sculptors are listed separately or photographed as a group in this album.
Start Date: September 1898
End Date: September 1898
Archive collection/item number: PA001
Citing this record
'Etruscan Bread Winners, Photograph Album, 1898', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/reference.php?id=msib4_1237288324, accessed 01 Apr 2023]
