Images from the J. Benjamin Stone Collection

Rock houses at Kinver, Staffordshire.
May 1895

Cropthorne near Worcester with Bredon Hills in the distance. 1900

The 'Horn Dance' at Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire - visit to the vicarage
September 1899

Charcoal Burner Wyre Forest
1896

Bell Tower of the ancient Abbey of Evesham
1900

Cottage and children in Evesham, Worcestershire.
1894

Tissington Well Dressing, Derbyshire.
Service at the Yew Tree or Goodwin's Well
Rev[?] FitzHerbert, Rev Granville of Ilam
May 11th Ascension Day or Holy Thursday
1899

Tissington Well Dressing, Derbyshire.
The Hands Well and its decoration
May 11th (Ascension Day or Holy Thursday)
1899

Ypres Tower, Rye Sussex.
June 1901

The Sir Benjamin Stone Collection, housed in the Archives and Heritage Service in Birmingham Central Library, was presented by Stone's trustees to the Library in 1921. It comprises some 22,000 mounted prints together with 17,000 surviving glass negatives for the photographs Stone took himself. There are over 600 stereoscopic prints, and more than a hundred albums of commercial prints and cuttings relating to Stone and his interests. The entire photograph collection can be viewed on microfiche which, for conservation purposes, is used instead of the originals. There is a comprehensive card catalogue to the collection in Archives and Heritage.

Many of the prints have been reproduced in a range of Birmingham photograph books, available from the Central Library. The prints cannot be photocopied because of the deterioration this causes; but photographic copies, or scanned copies of prints can be made to order.

Please contact
Archives and Heritage Service, Central Library,
Tel: 0121 303 4549
Fax: 0121 464 0993
E-mail: archives.heritage@birmingham.gov.uk

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