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Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 22 May, 11.14 - 11.28 am, No 1. Naples, panoramic View from the West window of the third floor of No. 233 Riviera di Chiaja. To the right, Lady Strachan's and next the British Embassy., Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75967
Roger Fenton, 1857, Slate Pier at Trefriw [Wales], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55926
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., St. Helen's Church, St. Helen's Square, York, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87011
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1910 (ca), Postcard with real hair, Photograph with hair, National Science and Media Museum, LL/7152
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Frederick Scott Archer, Collodion positive process / ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51613
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Pantheon, Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82158
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, February, Landscape view of the Forum in Rome from the Senator's Walk, West End, looking West., Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76002
Unknown maker / photographer, 1864 (ca), Portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, Albumen print, in gilt locket, National Science and Media Museum, LL/64132
Roger Fenton, n.d., British Museum Gallery of Antiquities, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55925
Roger Fenton, 1856 (ca), Interior of the British Museum, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41681
Unknown creator, 1870 (ca), Fan with applied photographs, Fan, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41862
Lewis Carroll, 1876 (ca), Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin as Chinese tea merchant, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41842
Roger Fenton, 1852, The Great Lavra Monastery from the North Side of the Dnieper, Kief, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41677
W.J. Warren, 1898 (ca), Hansom Cab in Trafalgar Square, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45209
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 22 July, 12.14 - 12.24 pm, Venice, General View taken from a position in the Grand Canal, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76004
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, 1 April, VI. The Open Door [wide shadow], Paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73205
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872, Return from School (Lionel and Henry Holland), Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/52850
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 11 June, 7.25 - 7.37 am, Rome, The East side of the Triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76015
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, no. 1, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51627
Henry Fox Talbot, 1842, 9 April, An empty armchair on a lawn, set against a backdrop, Paper Negative - Camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82207
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, 1 April, XIV. The Ladder, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73200
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100940
Richard Beard, 1842-1843, Jabez Hogg and Mr. Johnson, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/111477
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Statuette of Ariadne and the Panther, after Heinrich Dannecker, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84011
John R.H. Weaver, 1915 (ca), Frederick H. Evans, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51605
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826 (ca), Le Cardinal d'Amboise, Heliograph on pewter, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45989
Zoltan Glass, 1934, Couple in an Opel 6 Cylinder Roadster motor car, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45220
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 4 May, about noon, Paestum, The Great Temple called also the Temple of Neptune, from the South East, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76012
Roger Fenton, 1856, Princess Helena and Princess Louise, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41696
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium marinum, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41707
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 14 April, 10.42 - 11.2 am, Naples, Castel dell'Ovo and island of Capri, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75977
George Davison, 1890, The Onion Field, Mersea Island, Essex, Photogravure, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41836
Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1862, Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.5, Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39432
J. Paul, 1850 (ca), Portrait of a child, Daguerreotype, hand-coloured, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50408
George Hawkings, 1923, Herbert Lambert F.R.P.S. of Bath (and, later, Manager of Elliot & Fry), Photogravure, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51609
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, 1 October, 23. Melrose Abbey, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73198
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, London, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82204
Roger Fenton, 1860, Roger Fenton in volunteers uniform, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41674
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51640
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Officer, Ambrotype, hand-coloured, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50399
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Hôtel de Ville, Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82161
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, Rome, Western side of the Church of San Maria Maggiore, with the small obelisk, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76022
Unknown maker / photographer, 1864 (ca), Portrait of Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton) and Lavinia Warren, Albumen print, in gilt locket, National Science and Media Museum, LL/64130
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839 (ca), Roofline of Lacock Abbey, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41806
Roger Fenton, 1856, Balmoral Castle [Aberdeenshire], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41684
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Groupe of the Sabines at Florence [with a decorative lace border], Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73203
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Lace, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85131
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Nicolaas Henneman seated with a fascicle of, The Pencil of Nature, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85121
1853, 28 July (given as a gift), A red velvet covered toiletry box with daguerreotype in the lid, Toiletry box, National Science and Media Museum, LL/77115
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 4 May, between 3 & 4 pm, Paestum, The Basilica from the South West., Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75989
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 8 June, Rome. The three columns of the Grecostasis (sometimes called the Temple of Jupiter Stator), West side. In the back ground trees of the Senators walk, West side of the Arch of Titus, Wall and Pavillion of Orti Farnese & S. Maria Liberatrice., Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75966
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Notes & transcript of a letter relating to hieroglyphics, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82168
Henry Fox Talbot, 1845 (published), Sir Walter Scott's Favourite Dog, Maida, [Sun Pictures in Scotland], Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43249
Nick Hedges, 1969, January, Mr and Mrs M and their four children lived in a council owned house in Vincent Crescent, Balsall Heath., [Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72], Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55611
Peter Henry Emerson, 1900, A Dame's School, Uncertain print type, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43798
Zoltan Glass, 1934, Mercedes-Benz W25 GP, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45224
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 9 June, 8.29 - 8.41 am, Rome: View from the Pincio, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76018
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1880 (ca), Mourning brooch containing a portrait of a woman, Photograph in a mourning brooch, National Science and Media Museum, LL/7150
Henry Fox Talbot, 1841 (ca), The crown of the 1810 Erard Harp in Lacock Abbey,, Salt print, from a calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/71261
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 19 July, 9.42- 10.2 am, Venice, view of the Island of S. Giorgio Maggiore, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75984
Roger Fenton, 1855, Balaklava from Guard's Hill, Crimea, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/53599
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 3 June, 4.15 - 4.30 pm, Rome, Part of the wall of the Forum of Nerva, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75991
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium chinensis, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41699
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826, Un Clair de Lune - Moonlight, Pewter plate with resin of lavender oil, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45228
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Main Gate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85119
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., A man at the lodge gateway to a country estate, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87019
Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours, 1841 (ca), Le Parthenon a Athens, [Excursions Daguerriennes, representant les vues et les monuments les plus remarquables du globe (Paris, 1841-1864)], Engraving, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41617
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph of four diatoms, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83521
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, 1896, 13 January (taken), Print from the first X-ray of the human hand made in England, X-ray, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41854
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium ruta muraria, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41706
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, n.d., Intérieur d'une Abbaye en ruines, Photographic plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/35586
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 25 June, 2.57 - 3.3 pm, Pisa. General View of the Piazza del Duomo, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75996
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 4 June, 8.15 - 8.27 am, Rome, the Temple of Minerva Medica, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75973
Roger Fenton, 1856 (ca), Prince Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41693
Nick Hedges, 1969, June, Children living in substandard property, Birmingham Balsall Heath, [Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72], Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55613
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840 (ca), Photomicrograph of three crystals - study of polarized light, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45413
Unidentified photographer, 1846, 7 February (before), M. Claudet & Mension [sic] with a Palette, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75835
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Leaf of a vine (Vitaceae), Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84540
Henry Peach Robinson, 1870 (ca), Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41753
Calvert Richard Jones, 1847 (included in book / maquette?), 15. Brig and Barque, Aground, Swansea, [Talbotypes or Sun Pictures, Taken From The Actual Objects Which They Represent], Salted paper print, from a calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80418
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Group of young boys, Ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50400
Henry Peach Robinson, 1885 (ca), Two Women in the Woods, Drawing, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41750
Unknown creator, 1860, Purse decorated with collodion positive photograph, Book-form purse, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41861
Roger Fenton, 1854 (ca), Cuneiform Clay Tablet, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41689
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., The Forum, Pompeii, Paper Negative - Camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82214
John Thomson, 1877, Recruiting Sargeants at Westminster, [Street Life in London], Woodburytype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41805
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 22 May, 11.39 - 11.59 am, Naples, panoramic view from the west, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75976
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient at the Surrey County Asylum [Springfield near Wandsworth, England], Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41839
Roger Fenton, 1859, The Terrace, Garden and Park, Harewood [near Leeds, Yorkshire], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41692
William Hope, 1920, Couple with young female spirit, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/36193
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Fern leaf, possibly Mimosoidea Suchas, Acacia, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82193
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, 1 January, 67. Colosseum Rome, 2nd view, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73202
Henry Fox Talbot, 1838, 13 December, Flowers and stem, Photogenic drawing, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41808
Henry Fox Talbot, 1851 (ca), Photomicrograph of interference patterns - study of polarized light through crystals, Albumenized paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45412
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1872 (publication), Expression of Joy, [The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals], Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43242
Frank Hurley, 1918, 4 July, Almost every bay of the communication sap from Pear trench to Hamel Village contained dead bodies of the enemy, Gelatin silver print, toned (?), National Science and Media Museum, LL/39436
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Pantheon, Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82156
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, June, 10.48 - 11.00 am, Rome, Piazza Navona from the north east angle, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76017
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., 6. Maltese Boat Ashore, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85127
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Wings of a Lantern Fly as viewed in a solar microscope, Paper Negative, camera, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82191
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 5 May, 5.0 - 6.0 pm, Paestum, Gate, Porta della Sirena, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76021
William Crookes, n.d., Normal' Interference or Polarisation Pattern on Nitre, Photomicrograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83523
Peter Henry Emerson, 1887, Book cover for P.H. Emerson, 1887, Pictures from Life in Field and Fen, (Covent Garden: George Bell and Sons), Book cover, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43247
Roger Fenton, 1860 (ca), Parian Vase, Grapes and Silver Cup, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41690
Henry Fox Talbot, 1851 (ca), Photomicrograph of interference pattern - study of polarized light through crystals, Albumenized paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45414
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, 50. Street at Pompeii leading to the Forum, 2nd series, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82215
Henry Fox Talbot, 1842 (ca), Rocking Horse at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, National Science and Media Museum, LL/6766
F.W. Baker and Co, n.d., View of the front facade of Akbar's tomb (at Sikandra, a suburb of Agra, Uttan Pradesh, India), Daguerreotype, stereo, National Science and Media Museum, LL/98566
Unidentified photographer, n.d., View of St. Paul's cathedral, London, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80053
Zoltan Glass, 1935, View of the Berlin Automobile Exhibition, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45226
Anna Atkins, 1853, Aspidium, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41709
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 5 June, Rome: Piazza di Monte Cavallo, from the Quirinal Palace, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75986
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1865, Study of Prospero - Henry Taylor, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41783
Unidentified photographer, 1890 (ca), Beach photographer, Kodak circular snapshot, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51620
Nick Hedges, 1969, May, Mrs T and her family of 5 lived in a decaying terraced house owned by a steelworks., [Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72], Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55614
Roger Fenton, 1856, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41698
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Place du Carrousel and the Louvre, Paris, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82164
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 4 May, 7.30 - 7.55 am, Paestum, Eastern Facade of the Great Temple, called also the Temple of Neptune, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76029
Henry Fox Talbot, 1845 (ca), Portrait of young woman with dog, Photoglyphic engraving, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41811
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., 15. Tympanium Table & Wine Cooler, Pompeii, 2nd series, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82217
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1928 (ca), Self portrait of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51582
Henry Fox Talbot, 1846, December (after), Copy of a cover of "Punch's Almanack for 1846" (reduced in camera), Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/86345
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Portrait of two men, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50412
Southworth & Hawes, 1850, 24 May, Hawaiian Princes, Alexander Liholiho & Lot Kamahameeaha and G. Parmele Judd, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50407
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 20 June, 4.31 - 4.45 pm, Venice, The Basilica of San Marco, in front the three flagpoles., Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75988
Frank Hurley, 1918, 8 August, The morning of Aug.8th 1918. German prisoners just taken, returning in charge of a single Australian past their own burning dug-outs, Gelatin silver print, toned (?), National Science and Media Museum, LL/39435
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 8 June, 5.24 - 5.36 pm, Rome. View from the Pavillion in the Orti Farnesi on the Palace of the Caesars, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75972
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Boulevards of Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82154
William Hope, 1920, Man surrounded by signs of spirit presence, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48207
Nicolaas Henneman, 1847, Title page for Nicolaas Henneman, 1847, Talbotypes or Sun Pictures, Taken From The Actual Objects Which They Represent, (London: Nicolaas Henneman), Title page, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80413
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 11 June, 3.23 - 3.35 pm, Rome. Remains of Temple of Faustina and Antoninus (South side), Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76016
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Venus, Paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76876
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Botanical specimen, flowering shoot of a red currant plant (Ribes-sanguinea), Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84541
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 4 April, Patroclus in profile, face and neck from low angle, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73201
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Elm tree in winter, Lacock Abbey, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82184
Henry Peach Robinson, 1858, Little Red Riding Hood hastened home to tell her mother all that had befallen her; nor did she forget that night to thank heaven fervently having delivered her from the jaws of the Wolf, [Little Red Riding Hood, No.4], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41759
A.H. Blake, 1908 (ca), The Evening Train, Cannon Street, Carbon print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45187
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1872 (publication), Expressions of Grief, [The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals], Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43243
Henry Fox Talbot, 1846, August (taken), Copy of a hieroglyphic tablet at Ibrim, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82166
Johann Carl Enslen, 1839, Face of Christ superimposed on an oak leaf, Photogenic drawing, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41846
George Bridges, 1847 (included in book / maquette?), 20. Amphitheatre, Taormina, Sicily, [Talbotypes or Sun Pictures, Taken From The Actual Objects Which They Represent], Salted paper print, from a calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80419
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Coat of arms, taken ‘from old painted glass', Photogenic drawing negative and salted paper print (digitally enhanced), National Science and Media Museum, LL/72733
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Vizigapatam work in ivory, buffalo and elk, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41857
Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1865, Entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73184
George Davison, 1907, Cottages Near Aix les Bains, Photogravure, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41834
   

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