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Ian W Mitchell,
the FOURTH generation
and his family,
on behalf of the
ROBERT D CLAPPERTON
Photographic Trust,
now welcomes visitors
to the Clapperton Studios
to observe the art and craft
of photography
of a bygone era.


The Trust has arranged
the Studio as a
Working Museum and
Photographic Archive,
still in the original building
erected in Selkirk by
ROBERT CLAPPERTON

Ian and Janet Mitchell
pictured in the Clapperton Daylight Photographic Studio


See what it was like, in the early days of the
twentieth century,
when a visit was made to a
professional
photographer's
studio.

In the original
daylight photographic studio,
see displays
illustrating
how the Victorian and
Edwardian
photographers
organised the
taking of
studio photographs.

Trustees of the ROBERT D CLAPPERTON Phoptographic Trust:

Derek Mitchell; Ian Brown; Janet Mitchell; David Wilson.
Wendy Mitchell; Ian Mitchell; Aileen Wilson

On view within the Studio are exhibitions from the VAST ARCHIVE of the ROBERT D CLAPPERTON
Photographic Trust's photographs.
Photographs may be purchased from the Archive.
Black and white images can also be supplied framed.

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