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Eric Guy Collection (photographic)

The Museum of English Rural Life

Watering sheep using a horse-drawn water cart

Eric Guy was a commercial photographer with businesses at Basingstoke, Hampshire and then Reading, Berkshire.

Guy formed a partnership with fellow photographer Philip Osborne Collier from the 1920s until around 1940.

This collection consists of 2000 glass negatives and some prints, showing agriculture in central southern England from the 1920s to the 1950s.

More information

  • A full description is available on our online database
  • A handlist for the whole collection can be found here
  • See also the Philip Osborne Collier Collection.

 

Reference
P DX289
Extent
over 1300 glass negatives; over 120 photographic prints; job book
Date
1920s-1950s