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HENRY DIXON, THE SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHING RELICS OF OLD LONDON. "Churchyard of St. Lawrence Pountney." 7 x 8 7/8 - inch carbon print on the original 17 7/8 x 14 inch mount, with letterpress titles and credits. The Society hired Dixon and his son in 1875 to make carbon prints from negatives taken by Alfred and John Bool, and later also by the Dixons, of buildings threatened by demolition as well as important examples of early architecture. These began to be published by the Society in 1879. The project of recording threatened buildings has earlier antecedents such as by Marville in Paris and later by Atget. There are no people in these images. They concentrate on the buildings themselves, and not on the streets or neighborhoods. The society was conceived by Alfred Marks, who directed its activities. The prints were issued to subscribers in groups of 8, accompanied by descriptive texts written by Marks. These texts are missing. "AM” and a number are written on the extreme lower right, probably indicating this print was once in his personal collection. The original church was built in the 13th Century. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The Churchyard continued to be used for burials, but became a private garden for residences in the area in the 1850's. The trees are bent as though from a storm. There are large wooden objects in the foreground. "35" is written in pencil in the lower left mount corner, "47" in the right corner. This is a superb rich example of a carbon print.