Getty Images: The Forgotten Glass Plate Photograph That Revealed the Remarkable Story of Connie Gilchrist

If you have ever tried to source photographs online, then you will have come across Getty Images. As one of the world’s leading suppliers of licensed stock photography (not to mention editorial images, video footage and other forms of visual content), you might have wondered at the processes involved by Getty itself, to source the photographs and eventually bring them online. In this video, Melanie Llewellyn of the Getty Images Hutton Archive in the UK, investigates a “forgotten” collection of glass archives. Perhaps it's better to say that they had been archived for 150 years, awaiting the moment an expert would get to them! Using modern technology, she can quickly see the (startlingly high quality) image on the glass. Yet identifying the person in the image sometimes takes some good old-fashioned human detective work. The picture in the video turns out to be of Connie Gilchrist. She came from humble beginnings and escaped the London slums by becoming an artist’s model. She worked…

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