The Craft World Tours Collection
Photography from the archive
Alongside the objects sits a photographic archive: the artist’s own work, slides shot on the tours, and glass plates and early images that reach back a century.
Each part has its own room. Pieces are released as they’re cleaned, captured and catalogued.
The artist
Original work by Tom Muir Wilson, the photographer and designer who co-founded Craft World Tours.
Tom Muir Wilson, Photographer
His training, teaching and exhibitions, and the work he made before and alongside the tours.
Roadscape
Road signs photographed, cropped and printed until they become pattern. Pieces from 1971 to 1981.
From the tours
Photographs taken on location during Craft World Tours itineraries: the markets, workshops and people behind the objects.
Historic photography
Glass plates and early photographic objects that predate the tours by decades.
The Roebuck Glass Plate Archive
Glass plate negatives and prints, about 1910 to 1920. Start here for the full archive.
Farm & Barnyard
Rural life and working farms, 1910 to 1920.
Homes & Barns
Houses, barns and farm buildings, 1910 to 1920.
The Riga Train Wreck
A railway disaster recorded on glass.
Ambrotypes, Tintypes & Daguerreotypes
Early photographic objects from the first decades of the medium.
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