| Henry Fox Talbot Talbot House, Reading, UK 2005, 3 March Color print Private collection of Gerhard Bissell Courtesy of Gerhard Bissell LL/20513 The upper plaque reads:
HERE
W H FOX TALBOT FRS
Father of Modern Photography
CONDUCTED HIS
READING ESTABLISHMENT
1844-5
The lower plaque reads:
Talbot
House
The house at Regent Terrace (now 55 Baker Street), Reading had formerly been a school and most of the photographic work was carried out in a glasshouse adjoining the building.
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