The beauty of viewing a series of stereos, as with these taken by James Edward Ellam, is that we’re able to view his development as a 3D photographer over several years.

Whereas “The First Fall” (3rd September 2023) was from the early 1890s, “Winter” can be traced to a few years later.

By the middle of the decade, he had started using a vertical “J.E. Ellam” sticker on the verso and discarded from his credit “Yarm,” the Yorkshire town where he lived and worked.  

As with “The First Fall,” James succeeded in capturing a black-and-white scene in all its three-dimensional glory.

The use of a single-word title, as with “Golf” yesterday, suggests a growing confidence in his abilities as a stereographer.

Again, the location is not known, but as we have seen so far, James travelled far and wide with his stereoscopic camera.

The result is a generic image that could have been used by a newspaper or illustrated magazine as a library shot.

Tomorrow: “Forth Bridge.”

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