How much did the photos cost?!

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Sam!

Thanks a lot for the information!

One cannot help thinking, that some day there might show up a photo of an Irish family in Wales with a tall daughter...

All right, back to Annie; to my eyes the photos look like early colour photos (if I remember the contemporary term correctly, they were "tinted").

Anything to confirm/ban this presumption?!

All the best
Jukka

[Sam Flynn]

A basic portrait photograph might have cost as little as a shilling as early as 1861, as this website shows. By the time that the Chapmans posed for their portraits (early 1880s), advances in technology had brought down the cost. A good quality, large-format "cabinet" photograph could be bought for 2 shillings or so in 1881, and it seems that photographers would offer "3 for the price of 2" type discounts if more than one picture were commissioned at a time.

[j.r-ahde]

Hello you all!

When I first made friends with this website in 2004, the second piece I read was about Annie Chapman (yes, first I read about Polly Nicholls, then about Annie etc. ).

The thing making me wonder, that the Chapman family were pretty well-to-do, was the good quality photos of their kids. Thinking stereotypically, that the LVP people - since the innovation of photography was relatively new - paid pretty lot for such items...

So, does anyone know, what was the average price for such photos and how often common people could buy them?!

All the best
Jukka