Elsie Wright Frances Griffiths

Elsie Wright Frances Griffiths. The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of photographs taken by cousins Elsie Wright and She and 10-year-old Frances Griffiths took turns posing with the sprites. 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

Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths used a Midg quarter-plate camera to take their famous fairy photographs and was manufactured by W Butcher & Sons, London, from 1902-1920 They obliged, rounding out the series with a total of five photos.

Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths Alice and the Fairies (Circa 1920) MutualArt

The two girls often played together beside the beck at the bottom. The pictures were taken in 1917 by Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths (pictured above) In July, a young girl named Frances Griffiths had just arrived in London from South Africa to spend the summer with her aunt and cousin, Elsie Wright

Map shows the best places in Britain to find fairies Daily Mail Online. Frances' father was a soldier stationed in France during World War I, prior to which the family had lived in South Africa. The curious tale of the Cottingley Fairies began in the summer of that year, when nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother returned to England from South Africa to stay with the Wright family in Cottingley, West Yorkshire

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (19011988. 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 Cottingley Beck, where Frances and Elsie claimed to have seen the fairies