Description:Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Exhibition labels on reverse, include: 'The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. Accepted and Hung at the Autumn Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, London, 1955' & 'Handsworth Photographic Society. Accepted and Hung [at the] International Exhibition, 1956' & 'Midland Salon of Photography. Accepted for exhibition. Public Library & Art Gallery, Kidderminster, 1956' & 'South Shields International Salon of Photography, 1957 Exhibition'.
Ruth Handley(1899-1957)was renowned as a specialist in portrait photography. Mostly known for her photographs of actors and actresses who visited her Handsworth studio.
This photograph is from the Midland Counties Photographic Federation archive, held at Birmingham City Archives [Ref: MS2207]