VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN TOURIST (SHIRE)

The modern tourism industry is a product of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Photographers were quick to capitalise on the phenomenon, making available a rich assortment of visual mementoes at every stop along the way, and as photography developed they were largely displaced by the amateur photographer and picture postcard. Through a rich collection of Victorian and Edwardian images, this book explores the growth of tourism from the 1840s until the outbreak of the First World War.