Rare color photographs of England, 1928

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The late 1920s and early 1930s photographer Clifton R. Adams (Clifton R. Adams) spent in England, where he went on behalf of the National Geographic to capture the English farms, towns and cities, and British people at work and leisure.

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

The policeman regulates the movement of buses at the intersection of Trafalgar square in London

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Actors in knight costumes at the contest in Britain

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

English proudly points to the farmer's wagon in Cambridgeshire

Adams, in those days managed to make the colored frames using AVTONOMNYY the process represented by the lumière brothers to the market in 1907. The main component of autochrome served potatoes. Tiny grains of sand painted starch, about 4 000 000 in one square inch, covered with a glass plate. And the space between the grains were filled with soot.

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

The boy scouts during a camping trip near Ambleside

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

A view of the liner "Mauritania" Cunard dock in Southampton, Hampshire

Clifton R. Adams took these photos at the age of 38 years. He photographed and in many other European countries, and Central and North America, working for National Geographic from 1920 until his death. The photographer died in 1934 at the age of 44 years.

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Two women buying ice cream from the seller converted to a stall of the car in Cornwall

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Double-Decker London bus picks up a passenger

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Girl playing in the sand in Sandown, Isle of Wight

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

House with grape vines on the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon in County Warwickshire

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Ladies drink tea in Buckinghamshire

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Lunch haymaking in Lancashire

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Police and farmers gathering hay in Lancashire

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Traffic supervisor stops the buses at Trafalgar square in London

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Two young girls are enjoying the September sun in England

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Corner of high street and Cornhill in Oxford

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

The woman looks out the window of a stone house in Ambleside, lake district

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

Girls selling paper flowers to the charity on the Day of Alexandra, Seaford, East Sussex

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

The driver and conductor standing in front of a tourist bus in Ulverstone, Cumbria

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

War veteran sells matches on the street in Canterbury, Kent

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

The little boy throws the letter into the mailbox in the hedge, Sussex

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

A girl sells artificial flowers for charity on the Day of Alexandra in Kent

Rare color photographs of England, 1928

A young woman sends a letter in Oxford

Keywords: 20-e | 30-e | England | UK | Photographer | Color photography

     

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