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William Smedley-Aston collection

The William Smedley Aston Collection contains pictorial landscape and portrait studies (carbon, gum, platinum and albumen prints), glass negatives, competition medals, family photographs including members of the Birmingham Arts and Crafts Movement and the Birmingham Group such as Arthur Gaskin and Joseph Southall.

The collection, which covers the period c1890 to 1910, also includes a small body of portraits by Smedley Aston's fellow Birmingham photographer, Marianne Silverston.

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