Elsie Wright Frances Griffiths

Elsie Wright Frances Griffiths. Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths ALICE AND THE FAIRIES (FROM COTTINGLEY FAIRIES) (1917 A photograph of Frances Griffiths (1907-1986) taken by her cousin Elsie Wright (1901-1988) using her father Arthur's Midg quarter-plate camera Next to the house where Polly and Arthur Wright and their sixteen-year-old daughter Elsie lived was the small wooded.

Iris and the Gnome by Frances Griffiths, 1917, via Biblio In the summer of 1917, nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother moved into the Yorkshire home of Frances' cousin, sixteen-year-old Elsie Wright Cottingley Beck, where Frances and Elsie claimed to have seen the fairies

The Cottingley Fairies Alice and the Fairies; Iris and the Gnome; Alice and the Leaping Fairy

A photograph of Frances Griffiths (1907-1986) taken by her cousin Elsie Wright (1901-1988) using her father Arthur's Midg quarter-plate camera This photograph is the first in the 'Cottingley Fairies' series. Cottingley Beck, where Frances and Elsie claimed to have seen the fairies

Elsie Wright And Frances Griffiths. As the photos exploded into an international sensation, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths were given cameras of their own and asked to take even more photos in 1921 That summer, the pair enjoyed spending their days playing beside a stream at the bottom of a garden behind Elsie's house.

Real Fairy Pictures 1917. In the end, the tale of Elsie Wright, Frances Griffiths, and the fairies of Cottingley stands as a fascinating chapter in the history of photography and deception The fairies were paper cut-outs, which Elsie Wright, age 16, had copied from a children's book