The Photo Agency stamp

Update: NEW – Photo agency stationary
Update: I am now extending this search to include Photo Agency Stamps worldwide…

Photo agency stamps were the email and website details of the pre digital age, stamped on the reverse of a press photo agency Press Print to identify the copyright holder for payment if the image was chosen for publication. Press Prints were produced in their thousands with every agency sending their best edit of a shoot directly to every relevant publication. This process slowed up in the mid 1990’s, many photo editors I meet today who remember the prints, piles of them all over the photo desk and stacked up all around the office propped up against walls and desk sides.
For the Press Photo History Project the information on these stamps identify the current address of an agency at time of printing, which helps with our Photo Agency directory tracing the life of a particular agency.

If you have a stamp or notice one we don’t have please let us know [email protected]

These just in from a huge print archive edit we are doing for a client in the UK, mixed with stamps sent by PPHP readers.

Harris Picture Agency Fleet Street – Info Please

Peter Tauber Press Agency 146 Fleet Street – Info please

Aitken Ltd Print No date info please

Not Fleet St I know but the artwork on this stamp from Epic Press Agency Liverpool had to be included Peter Halligan, no date info please

FEATURE PIX No date

BOB THOMAS Sports Photography 1982

No where near Fleet Street but had to show this one! On he verso of a celebrity photo “ZARB Photographer Of The Stars” – 1950’s

Camera Talks …info please

Art Pho’ Service …info please

Pictorial Press 1926?

British Newspaper Pool no date

Benson’s Press Service 1955

General Pictures News …..1932?

Barratt’s 1939

Barratt’s Photo Press LTD 1951

Barratt’s represented photographer

Found a Block Maker stamp – Sedgwick technical and Fine Art Photographers – EC4

Mirror Features – 1932?

KIPPA – Kovesdi Press – 1975

Allied News Agency – combine?

Baron Photo Centre LTD 1947

Angus McBean for Covent Garden Opera Company – date?

Verity Press Features 1973 – info please

I know it’s not Fleet Street …but couldn’t resist ! Chicago Police Dept 1967

London News Agency LNA 1967

Scotsman Photos 1959

James’s Press Agency – 1929?

London Photo Agency 1969

• Info on LPA from Mark Leech, owner at Offside Photo Agency:
Hi Will,
Interested to see the old LPA rubber stamp with a photo credit to Brendan Monks. When I started work at the Holborn offices in 1973, they had already split to LPA and LPA (Sport) after a big row between Alec Byrne and Frank Baron. The building at 7a Lambs Conduit Passage was divided in a scene similar to Steptoe & Son. By 1974 LPA (Sport) had been renamed Sporting Pictures (UK) Ltd. Brendan worked for the Daily Mirror until taking the Daily Mail Sport picture editor’s job.
Regards,
Mark Leech

Polar Photos

British Combine Photos S&G 1943

Photopress date?

Photopress date?

Fox Photos Date? looks early

Fox Photos Ltd 1936, Fox appear to change the agency stamp regularly adding decent effort to the design each time.

Fox Photos LTD 1937

Fox Photos date? . Sent in by PPHP reader and press photo collector Ruoyu.

This one in from PPHP advisor Matt Butson (Vice President ‑ Getty Images, Hulton Archive) showing the photo agencies now housed with him and is team.

Verso: Popperfoto July 1971. Sent in by PPHP reader and press photo collector Ruoyu.

as above July 1971. Sent in by PPHP reader and press photo collector Ruoyu.

EUROPIX date? Sent in by PPHP reader and press photo collector Ruoyu

P & A Photos ….31 Lines!

Camerapix Nairobi and Kenya

Central Press Photos 1960

VU Picture Agency 1966? …The date stamp on the verso if different to the text from the agency usually dates the published date in a paper or magazine not the date the agency produced the image.