Photographs of Sherborne women

Come face-to-face with some of the strong women of Sherborne through our collection of cartes de visite and cabinet card photographs taken in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries. These photographs are all anonymous, so if you recognise any family members please do let us know.

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Photographer: Thomas Geake, Sherborne, c1860. (Effield Willmott)

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1866-72.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1866-72.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Dorset, c.1873-74.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Dorset, c.1873-74.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1873-74.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1873-74.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Dorset, c.1873-74.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Dorset, c.1873-74.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Dorset, c.1873-74.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Half Moon Street, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1875-77.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Half Moon Street, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1875-77.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Half Moon Street, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1875-77.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil & Frome, c.1879.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil & Frome, c.1879.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil & Frome, c.1879.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil & Frome, c.1879.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne & Yeovil, c.1879,

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne & Yeovil, c.1879.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne & Yeovil, c.1879.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne & Yeovil, c.1879,

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne & Yeovil, c.1879,

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne & Yeovil, c.1879,

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil, Gillingham & Shaftesbury, c.1881.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, & Gillingham, c.1881.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, & Gillingham, c.1881.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, & Gillingham, c.1881.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil, Crewkerne & Gillingham, c.1881.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester & Crewkerne, c.1889.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester & Crewkerne, c.1889.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Gosney’s Art Studios, Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester & Crewkerne, c.1889.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Gosney’s Art Studios, Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester & Crewkerne, c.1889.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Gosney’s Studios, Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne, & Wells, c.1889.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Gosney’s Studios, Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne, & Wells, c.1889.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne & Wimborne, c.1893.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne & Wimborne, c.1893.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne, & Wimborne, c.1893.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne, & Wimborne, c.1893.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne, & Wimborne, c.1893. Written on the back ‘L Baldwyn’.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne & Wimborne, c.1893.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne, & Wimborne, c.1893.

Photographer: Adam Gosney. Sherborne, Yeovil, Dorchester, Crewkerne, & Wimborne, c.1893.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1890s.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1890s.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1890s.

Photographer: Adam Gosney, Sherborne, Dorset, c.1890s.

Photographer: Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset. (‘Blanche’)

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset. (‘Antonella’)

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset. (‘Mrs Banning’)

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset, 1876. (Kate Abbott (1857-1953) on her 19th birthday, 1 February 1876)

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Sons, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin & Sons, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin & Sons, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: W.M. Chaffin & Sons, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Sons, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Crewkerne & Chard.

Photographer: Chaffin & Son, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Son, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Sons, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Son, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Son, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Mat. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Mat. Chaffin, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Sons, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Sons, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Sons, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: Chaffin & Sons, Artists & Photographers, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: The Parade Photographic Studio, Sherborne, Dorset.

Photographer: The Parade Photographic Studio, Sherborne, Dorset.

To find out more about local photographers:

Adam Gosney (1844-1921), Sherborne photographer
Photographers of Yeovil on Yeovil’s Virtual Museum by Bob Osborn
Robin Ansell, Allan Collier and Phil Nichols, Secure the Shadow: Somerset Photographers 1839-1939 (SDFHS, 2018)