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.