Halifax Faces

Towards the end of the 19th century, most towns would have at least one professional photographer’s studio. It was a time when ordinary people began to have their photos taken, and such photographs – in the form of small “carte de visites” or slightly larger “cabinet cards” – became family treasures. The studios were keen to have their names and locations prominently displayed on these photographic cards, and thus we are able to look back, with a fair degree of certainty, at Halifax – or Bradford or Barnsley or Birmingham or wherever – faces of the past.