Museum Service

The photographs of James Dore

James Dore 1854-1925

Photographer

James Dore (PDF, 0.99MB, 4 pages) ran his jewellery business at 27, High Street, Sandown.  He built up the shop’s photographic department and achieved a high standard exhibiting and selling his work.

The Isle of Wight Heritage service holds a collection of over 600 glass negatives and lantern slides of Dore’s work of which more than 200 can be seen here.

A member of the town’s Fire Brigade, he photographed the services (PDF, 1.18MB, 5 pages) and military life (PDF, 1.77MB, 8 pages) on the Island.

He took photographs around the coast (PDF, 1.98MB, 9 pages) of the Island, including

• Piers  (PDF, 1.45MB, 6 pages)
• Sailing  (PDF, 1.32MB, 9 pages)
• Shipwrecks  (PDF, 828KB, 4 pages)
• Lifeboats and coastguards  (PDF, 1.27MB, 5 pages).

He photographed many rural scenes (PDF, 1.98MB, 8 pages) portraying

• Farming  (PDF, 1.92MB, 7 pages)
• Harvest time  (PDF, 776KB, 3 pages)
• Horses  (PDF, 1.83MB, 7 pages)
• Winter scenes  (PDF, 1.98MB, 6 pages).

Images show towns and villages (PDF, 1.98MB, 11 pages) and buildings (PDF, 1.98MB, 11 pages) from around the Island.

Dore often include people (PDF, 1.87MB, 6 pages) in his photographs and recorded Queen Victoria’s  funeral procession (PDF, 1.05MB, 4 pages) passing through East Cowes in February 1901.

He even photographed elephants (PDF, 408KB, 2 pages) in Sandown.