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Scientific: Photomicroscopy - An introduction
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1.John Dillwyn Llewelyn
1853 (ca)
The Microscope

Collodion negative
15.24 cm x 12.7 cm
 
Swansea Museum, Library
Swansea Museum, Library (SWASM:SM1987.845.53)
 
The woman shown here is Thereza (1834-1926) the eldest daughter of John Dillwyn Llewelyn. Through her father's, and her own, interests in science she met and married Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823-1911), grandson of the Astronomer Royal and professor of mineralogy at Oxford .
 
LL/7477
2.Thereza Llewelyn
1853-1854 (ca)
Portrait of John Dillwyn Llewelyn

Collodion negatve / calotype print
Private collection of Noel Chanan
It is not certain who took this portrait but it is unlikely to have been a self-portrait. Thereza, the eldest daughter of John Dillwyn Llewelyn, had an interest in shared science and it is possible that she took it but this is uncertain.
 
In this photograph the setup is identical with that in the image of Llewelyn's daughter, Thereza, held by the library at Swansea Museum (SWASM:SM1987.845.53). It shows the same microscope with the same botanical specimens in front of the same books. Since the image of Thereza is larger than that of Llewelyn, we may reasonably suppose that he photographed her with his large format camera, and at the same session, she photographed him with her small format camera. Thereza notes in her diaries that everyone in the family had their own cameras.
 
[Pers. comm. Noel Chanan, 18th April 2010]
 
LL/36502
3.Haack
1871
Microphotographic Camera

Albumen print, mounted on cardboard
Albertina
© Albertina, Vienna - On permanent loan from the Austrian Federal Education and Research Institute for Graphics
 
Carl Haack
  This version includes the Albertina digital watermark in the lower right which is not visible on the original image.
 
LL/42238
4.Henry Fox Talbot
1839
Lace
[Album di disegni fotogenici - The Bertoloni Album, Leaf 13 Recto]

Photogenic drawing, solar microscope
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936 (36.37.3)
 
A enlargement of lace magnified 400 times with a solar microscope.
 
LL/40625
5.Henry Fox Talbot
1839
Lace (enlarged detail)
[Album di disegni fotogenici - The Bertoloni Album, Leaf 13 Recto]

Photogenic drawing, solar microscope, detail
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936 (36.37.3)
 
A enlargement of lace magnified 400 times with a solar microscope.
 
This section of the image has been captured to show the remarkable detail of the original.
 
LL/40626
6.Henry Fox Talbot
1840 (ca)
Photomicrograph of Moth Wings

Calotype negative
National Science and Media Museum
LL/36343
7.Henry Fox Talbot
1851 (ca)
Photomicrograph of a crystal - study of polarized light

Albumenized paper print
2 7/16 x 2 7/17 ins (6.2 x 6.2 cm)
 
National Science and Media Museum
W.H.F. Talbot Collection
 
Probably a collaboration with William Crookes - Dr. Kelley Wilder , 8 June 2018, Observing by Polarisation, The Talbot Catalogue Raisonné - blog (Accessed: 8 June 2018)
 
Published in "Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography", Aperture, Winter 2000, Issue: 161, p.16
 
LL/45411
8.Henry Fox Talbot
1851 (ca)
Photomicrograph of interference patterns - study of polarized light through crystals

Albumenized paper print
1 25/32 x 2 5/16 ins (4.5 x 5.9 cm)
 
National Science and Media Museum
W.H.F. Talbot Collection
 
Probably a collaboration with William Crookes - Dr. Kelley Wilder , 8 June 2018, Observing by Polarisation, The Talbot Catalogue Raisonné - blog (Accessed: 8 June 2018)
 
Published in "Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography", Aperture, Winter 2000, Issue: 161, p.16
 
LL/45412
9.Henry Fox Talbot
1840 (ca)
Photomicrograph of three crystals - study of polarized light

Calotype negative
2 13/32 x 2 7/32 ins (6.1 x 5.6 cm)
 
National Science and Media Museum
W.H.F. Talbot Collection, 1937-2512, Schaaf 1477
 
Probably a collaboration with William Crookes - Dr. Kelley Wilder , 8 June 2018, Observing by Polarisation, The Talbot Catalogue Raisonné - blog (Accessed: 8 June 2018)
 
Published in "Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography", Aperture, Winter 2000, Issue: 161, p.16
 
LL/45413
10.Henry Fox Talbot
1851 (ca)
Photomicrograph of interference pattern - study of polarized light through crystals

Albumenized paper print
2 5/16 x 2 5/16 ins (5.9 x 5.9 cm)
 
National Science and Media Museum
W.H.F. Talbot Collection, 1937-2511/1, Schaaf 5055
 
Probably a collaboration with William Crookes - Dr. Kelley Wilder , 8 June 2018, Observing by Polarisation, The Talbot Catalogue Raisonné - blog (Accessed: 8 June 2018)
 
Published in "Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography", Aperture, Winter 2000, Issue: 161, p.16
 
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11.John William Draper
1844
Photomicrograph of Frog Blood

Daguerreotype
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Photographic History Collection, Image ID AF 201
 
LL/38103
12.Andreas Ritter von Ettingshausen
1840, 4 March
Cross section of a clematis stem

Daguerreotype, whole plate
Albertina
Exhibited in touring exhibition: "Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900".
 
Exhibited: Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada : "Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science", October 1997 - January 1998.
 
Published in:
 
A. Thomas, Exhibition catalogue, "Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science", New Haven & London, 1998, p.41, no.20.;
 
A. Auer, 'Andreas Ritter von Ettingshausen (1796-1878)', History of Photography, Vol.17, No.1, Spring 1993, p.119.
 
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13.John William Draper
1850
Photomicrograph of a Fly's Proboscis

Daguerreotype
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Photographic History Collection, Image No. AFS 203
 
This photograph was included on the "Click! Photography Changes Everything" website (click.si.edu).
 
LL/36183
14.Adolphe Bertsch
1853-1857 (ca)
Male Itch Mite

Salt print
SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
© San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Members of Foto Forum
 
LL/36344
15.Adolphe Bertsch
1855
Antennes du Moucheron Volucelle (gross 4000 fois)

Salt print
15 x 15 cm
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Sale: 90, Lot: 4023, Dec 5, 2007)
 
Adolphe Bertsch was one of the early pioneers of 19th century photography, being one of the first to make enlargements from smaller negatives. Bertsch invented the megascope which made extreme enlargements possible as early as 1860. In 1857 he published "Etudes d'histoire naturelle au microscope".
 
LL/25209
16.Adolphe Bertsch
1857
Bois du pin sylvestre (coupe horizontale). Gross. 1600 fs.

Salt print
Daniella Dangoor
LL/36535
17.John William Draper
1856
Photomicrograph of Algae

Daguerreotype
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Photographic History Collection, Image No. AFS 146
 
LL/36187
18.Alfred Donné
n.d.
Blood corpuscles of the frog
[Donné "Atlas", fig. 8]

Daguerreotype, photomicrograph
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (M0011457, Museum No. 7/1950)
 
LL/36721
19.Léon Foucault
1844
Blood corpuscles of a frog

Daguerreotype, photomicrograph
12.8 x 9.4 cm
 
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0015258, Library reference no.: Iconographic Collection 578807i)
 
LL/36722
20.Donné & Foucault
n.d.
Rouleaux of blood corpuscles

Daguerreotype, photomicrograph
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0015259, Iconographic Collections)
 
LL/36723
21.Léon Foucault
1844
Brewer's Yeast

Daguerreotype
9.5 x 12.7 cm (3 3/4 x 5 ins)
 
Société Française de Photographie
This plate was included in the exhibition "The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839-1855".
 
LL/38280
22.Alois Auer
1853 (ca)
[Microscopic view on an insect]

Albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rogers Fund, 1918 (18.17.1.217)
 
MOMA includes the note: This information may change as the result of ongoing research. (5 April 2010)
 
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23.Donné & Foucault
1855
Fig.40 - thin disc of cow's milk. The 120th of an inch in diameter, magnified 400 times in its linear and 160000 times in its superficial dimensions.

Book page
Google Books
The Museum of Science and Art (London: Walton and Maberly, 1855), Volume 6, edited by Dionysius Lardner, p.97. The plate is discussed on p.106.
 
87. In fig. 40, p. 97, we have given the appearance presented by a thin disc, the 120th of an inch in diameter, of common cow's milk magnified 400 times in its linear, and therefore 160000 times in its superficial dimensions, engraved from a daguerreotype by MM. Donne and Foucault.
 
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24.W. & F. Langenheim
n.d.
The Lord's Prayer - Containing 268 letters in a space the one thousand part of a square inch. and almost invisible by the naked eye. Made by W. F. Langenheim, Philadelphia

Photomicrograph, slide
Private collection of Herbert C. McKay
Photographs prepared by Herbert C. McKay and kindly provided by his grandson Maurice M. Greeson (19 June 2012).
 
LL/48546
25.W. & F. Langenheim
n.d.
The Lord's Prayer - Containing 268 letters in a space the one thousand part of a square inch. and almost invisible by the naked eye. Made by W. F. Langenheim, Philadelphia

Photomicrograph, slide, enlarged
Private collection of Herbert C. McKay
Photographs prepared by Herbert C. McKay and kindly provided by his grandson Maurice M. Greeson (19 June 2012).
 
LL/48547
26.Alfred Reeves
n.d.
Photograph. We Praise Thee O Lord Painted by Barraud. 8. A. Reeves, Photo.

Microscope slide
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
Original photograph provided by Reg Porter.
 
A rare microphotograph bearing A. Reeves' name spelled out.
 
LL/36905
27.Henry Hering
1862, 31 May
The Kings and Queens of England, From the Conquest to Queen Victoria

Advertisement
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
The photograph includes the 83 monarchs ruling England from the Norman Conquest to Queen Victoria.
 
Comments by Prof. Brian Stevenson
 
Henry Hering issued a cdv-sized version of the kings and queens montage in 1862. The illustrated advertisement is from the May 31, 1862 issue of The Bookseller, and indicates when Hering began selling these cards. Note that Reeves' slides with this image were described in 1859. Thus, it is not clear whether Hering produced this montage 3 years before he published the cdv, if Reeves produced the montage and later sold the rights to Hering, or if a third person originally made it. Noting that Hering claimed copyright for the cdv image but the Reeves microphotographs do not mention copyright, I think the last two possibilities are more likely
 
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28.Henry Hering
1862
The Kings and Queens of England, From the Conquest to Queen Victoria

Carte de visite
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
The photograph includes the 83 monarchs ruling England from the Norman Conquest to Queen Victoria.
 
Comments by Prof. Brian Stevenson
 
Henry Hering issued a cdv-sized version of the kings and queens montage in 1862. The illustrated advertisement is from the May 31, 1862 issue of The Bookseller, and indicates when Hering began selling these cards. Note that Reeves' slides with this image were described in 1859. Thus, it is not clear whether Hering produced this montage 3 years before he published the cdv, if Reeves produced the montage and later sold the rights to Hering, or if a third person originally made it. Noting that Hering claimed copyright for the cdv image but the Reeves microphotographs do not mention copyright, I think the last two possibilities are more likely
 
LL/44291
29.Alfred Reeves
n.d.
Photograph. The Kings & Queens of England, From the Conquest to Queen Victoria. Contains 85 Portraits. A.R.

Microscope slide
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
Original photographs courtesy of David Evans.
 
The original photograph which was copied for this photomicrograph was by Henry Hering (1814-1893). See the carte de visite version from 1862 in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG Ax131392). Thanks to T. Max Hochstetler for passing on this information (email to Alan Griffiths, 16 June 2011).
Contemporary comments:
 
"Mr. Alfred Reeves has recently forwarded to us a specimen of one of those minute pictures, which consists of a plate containing the portraits of kings and queens of England since the time of the Conquest. Here, on a space not larger than 1/16 of an inch square, may be perceived a miniature "National Portrait Gallery" with a portrait of every king and queen surrounding her Majesty, who is properly made the centre figure of the interesting group." ("Micro-Photography" The Photographic News, Volume 2, March 18, 1859, p.15)
 
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30.John Charles Stovin
1858-1862
Examples of microphotograph slides by J.C. Stovin.

Microphotograph slides
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
The majority of his slides bear one, pale brown label and the initials "JS". As Warren (2006) pointed out, the use of two initials on the "JS" labels achieves artistic balance. Others carry two yellowish labels and the initials "JCS". Another producer of microphotographs, the as-yet unidentified "EM" used similar labels, and may have been a colleague of Stovin's, they may have copied each other, or simply patronized the same printer.
 
LL/44286
31.John Charles Stovin
1862 (exhibited)
Two microphotographs with titles that match descriptions of full-sized photographs displayed by Stovin at the 1862 London Exposition

Microphotograph slides
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
The other nine exhibited photographs were of Government Offices, All Souls Church, Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Trafalgar Square, Somerset House (two different views), The Tower, Westminster Hospital, and Houses of Parliament. According to Nicol (1881), Stovin expanded this series of microphotographs to 36 different views.
 
LL/44288
32.John Charles Stovin
1858-1862
Examples of Stovin's microphotographs

Microphotograph slides
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
Clockwise from top left: "Her Majesty the Queen" (Victoria), "The Kings and Queens of England, from Egbert to Victoria", "His Royal Highness Prince Albert" (this exists in two label variants, with the word 'late' added after Prince Albert's death in 1861), and "H.R.H. The Prince of Wales" (who became King Edward VII upon Victoria's death in 1901). The kings and queens montage may have been a response to an acclaimed microphotograph produced by competitor Alfred Reeves, which showed pictures of English sovereigns from the Norman Conquest (1066) until Victoria. Stovin outdid Reeves by going further back in time to Egbert, who ruled 802-839.
 
LL/44287
33.John Charles Stovin
1858-1862
Her Majesty the Queen (Victoria)

Microphotograph slide
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
LL/44294
34.John Charles Stovin
1858-1862
His Royal Highness Prince Albert

Microphotograph slides
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
This exists in two label variants, with the word 'late' added after Prince Albert's death in 1861),
 
LL/44295
35.John Benjamin Dancer
n.d.
The Micrograph

Viewer for micrographs
Interencheres - La Gallerie de Chartes
Collection Henry Koilski (Galerie de Chartres, Auction, 9 October 2011, Lot: 727)
 
Petite lorgnette en ivoire avec petite vues. L'ensemble dans un écrin.
 
LL/44272
36.Oliver Wendell Holmes
n.d.
Photomicrograph of "The Declaration of Independence"
Google Books
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "VII. Mechanism in Thought and Morals" IN Pages from an Old Volume of Life - A Collection of Essays 1857-1881, (Boston: Hoghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883), p.298.
 
I have a glass slide on which is a minute photographic picture, which is exactly covered when the head of a small pin is laid upon it. In that little speck are clearly to be seen, by a proper magnifying power, the following objects: the Declaration of Independence, with easily-recognized facsimile autographs of all the signers; the arms of all the original thirteen States ; the Capitol at Washington; and very good portraits of all the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Polk. These objects are all distinguishable as a group with a power of fifty diameters: with a power of three hundred, any one of them becomes a sizable picture. You may see, if you will, the majesty of Washington on his noble features, or the will of Jackson in those hard lines of the long face, crowned with that bristling head of hair in a perpetual state of electrical divergence and centrifugal self-assertion. Remember that each of these faces is the record of a life.
 
LL/39651
37.Adolphe Neyt
1865 (ca)
Photomicrograph of a flea

Albumen print
19.8 x 15.0 cm
 
George Eastman Museum
Record Id: 1977:0638:0015
 
LL/35658
38.Arthur E. Durham
1863 (ca)
Three Mites

Albumen print
National Science and Media Museum
The Royal Photographic Society, Ref Number: 2003-5001/2/23760/1
 
LL/41844
39.Arthur E. Durham
1865 (ca)
Photomicrograph of a Fly
Albertina
LL/36345
40.Arthur E. Durham
1863-1864
Photomicrograph of a Flea

Albumen print
National Science and Media Museum
© Royal Photographic Society Collection, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK, purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund
 
LL/36346
41.Albert Moitessier
1866
Photo-micrographs

Book plate
Google Books
A. Moitessier La Photographie, Appliquée aux Recherches Micrographiques (Paris, J. B. Bailliereet Fils, 1866)
 
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42.Jules Girard
1869
Diatomées groupées

Heliogravure
Google Books
Jules Girard "La Chambre Noire et le Microscope" (Paris: F. Savy, 1869), p.55, fig.5
 
LL/36349
43.J. Dunlop (English)
1870
Eye of Indian Gad fly. Magnified 100 diameters

Albumen print
Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm
LL/20636
44.Joseph Janvier Woodward
1871 (ca)
Small Artery and Capillaries from Lung of Frog
[Report to the Surgeon General of the United States Army on an improved Method of Photographing Histological Preparations by Sunlight" - Issued by the U.S. War Department Surgeon General's Office - Plate No. 2 (of 9).]

Albumen print, photo-micrograph
6 x 6 in (16x16 cm)
 
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
Courtesy of Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs (hb72.365)
 
On fancy mount 14 x 11 inches (35x28 cm) with gilt imprint "WAR DEPARTMENT, Surgeon General's Office, Army Medical Museum… by J. J. WOODWARD, Asst. Surg., U.S.A. / By order of the Surgeon General."
 
With pasted-on printed label reading "SMALL ARTERY AND CAPILLARIES FROM LUNG OF FROG. The preparation was injected with a dilute silver solution and subsequently stained with carmine. Magnified 500 diameters. Negative No. 365, New Series."
 
LL/13885
45.Unidentified photographer / artist
1880
Saccharomycetes and Schizomycetes (Nageli)

Book illustration
Google Books
Dr. Antoine Magnin The Bacteria (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1880)
 
Saccharomycetes and Schizomycetes (Nageli), developed in urine (of yellow-fever patient) exposed in laboratory of the Yellow-fever Commission, Havana, July, 1879. Reproduced by permission of the National Board of Health.
 
Fig. 1. Photo-micrograph made with Beck's 1/5 in. objective and Tolles's amplifier. 400 diameters.
 
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46.George E. Davis
1881
Proboscis of Fly

Woodburytype, magazine illustration
Google Books
The Northern Microscopist, No.4, April 1881, plate V.
 
Accompanies the article on "Photo-Micrography" by George E. Davis.
 
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47.Frederick H. Evans
n.d.
Microscopes slide of "Sponge Spicules" (left) and "Pulex Iritans (sic) - Flea" (right) with signatures

Microscope slides
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
Two microscope slides bearing labels with Frederick Evans' signature. The left slide, of a flea, also carries a descriptive label in the same hand, and was presumably made by Evans. The right slide, a papered arrangement of sponge spicules, bears a specimen label with a very different style of handwriting. It is not known whether Evans bought the slide through G. Rogers, or if Rogers disposed of it after Evans had owned the slide. Enlargements of Evans' signature are included to assist readers in comparing the slides' signatures with those on photographs by Frederick Evans.
 
http://microscopist.net/
(Accessed: May 14, 2010)
 
Brian Bracegirdle's Microscopical Mounts and Mounters (Oxford, Seacourt Press, 1998) illustrates a slide with an Evans label on plate 15D, with a cover paper indicating that it was made by J. & T. J. (Jones). Bracegirdle interpreted the scrawled handwriting to be "F N Evans."
 
LL/36900
48.Frederick H. Evans
n.d.
Microscopes slide of "Sponge Spicules" (left), "Tooth of Shark" (center) and "Pulex Iritans (sic) - Flea" (right) with signatures

Microscope slides
Private collection of Professor Brian Stevenson, Ph.D.
Three microscope slides bearing labels with Frederick Evans' signature. The left slide, of a flea, also carries a descriptive label in the same hand, and was presumably made by Evans. The right slide, a papered arrangement of sponge spicules, bears a specimen label with the handwriting of professional slide-maker John Barnett. It is not known whether Evans bought the slide through G. Rogers, or if Rogers disposed of it after Evans had owned the slide. The maker of the center slide is not known.
 
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49.Frederick H. Evans
1914 (album)
Spine of Echinus (title incomplete)

Photomicrograph, on album page
George Eastman Museum
1973:0250:0042a.
 
From the album "Photo-micrographs by Frederick H. Evans. Negatives and Silver prints made before 1886, other prints in Satista platinotype in 1914" held at George Eastman House.
 
LL/36554
50.Frederick H. Evans
1914 (album)
Spine of Echinus (title incomplete)

Photomicrograph
George Eastman Museum
1973:0250:0042a.
 
From the album "Photo-micrographs by Frederick H. Evans. Negatives and Silver prints made before 1886, other prints in Satista platinotype in 1914" held at George Eastman House.
 
LL/36555
51.Frederick H. Evans
1914 (album)
Photomicrograph

Photomicrograph, on album page
George Eastman Museum
GEH#1973:0250:0042b
 
From the album "Photo-micrographs by Frederick H. Evans. Negatives and Silver prints made before 1886, other prints in Satista platinotype in 1914" held at George Eastman House.
 
LL/36556
52.Frederick H. Evans
1914 (album)
Photomicrograph

Photomicrograph
George Eastman Museum
GEH#1973:0250:0042b
 
From the album "Photo-micrographs by Frederick H. Evans. Negatives and Silver prints made before 1886, other prints in Satista platinotype in 1914" held at George Eastman House.
 
LL/36557
53.Frederick H. Evans
1887 (ca)
Fr: Sec: Spine of Echinus x. 40

Platinum print
4 3/4 x 4 11/16 ins (12.1 x 11.9 cm) (image) 13 5/8 x 10 5/16 ins (34.6 x 26.2 cm) (mount)
 
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Purchased with funds contributed by Dorothy Norman, 1973, 1973-197-65
 
Philadelphis Museum of Art accompanying text [Accessed: 24 Oct 2010]
 
Unlike many beginning photographers of the nineteenth century who experimented with straightforward portrait or landscape compositions, Evans's earliest trials with photography involved minute organic matter and required the use of a microscope. His complicated "photo-microgram" process allowed him to capture the intricate structures of objects including a water beetle's eye, tiny sea shells, and this section of a sea urchin's spine. Although classified as scientific rather than artistic imagery by the Photographic Society of Great Britain, this photo-microgram demonstrates Evans's ability to delineate the magnificence of organic patterns and presage his photographs that depict the structural beauty of cathedrals.
 
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54.Unidentified photographer / artist
1887
Bacillus anthracis

Book illustration
Google Books
Edgar M. Crookshank Photography of Bacteria (New York: J.H. Vail & co., 1887), Plate VII, Photo II.
 
Enlargement from a negative taken with a 1/25 hom, imm. Of Powell and Lealand. From a section of kidney of a mouse which had died after inoculation with Bacillus anthracis. Showing a glomerulus injected with the bacilli. Stained by the method of Gram. X 1500.
 
LL/35795
55.Unidentified photographer / artist
1887
Proteus Zenkeri

Book illustration
Google Books
Edgar M. Crookshank Photography of Bacteria (New York: J.H. Vail & co., 1887), Plate IV, Photo I.
 
Enlargement from a negative taken with Zeiss' DD. From a cover-glass impression-preparation of Proteus Zenkeri. The preparation was stained a very faint violet with methyl violet, and is represented in brown to illustrate the employment of a brown pigment in the autotype process. X 500.
 
LL/35794
56.Unknown (Great Britain)
1890 (ca)
Microphotograph of a tick

Cyanotype
2.75 x 3 ins
 
Archive Farms
LL/38883
57.Wilson A. Bentley
1895 (ca)
Snowcrystal

Albumen print
3 x 4 in (7.5 x 10 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 7, 2006, #2097, Lot 372)
 
LL/15996
58.Wilson A. Bentley
1890
Snowflake Study

Albumen print
3 x 3 ins
 
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Image No. RU 31 Box 12 Folder 17
 
This image was used as an illustration in the Kenneth G. Libbrecht "Photography changes natural phenomena into iconic images" story on the Smithsonian - "Click! Photography changes everything" website (click.si.edu).
 
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59.Richard Neuhauss
1892-1893
Snow crystals and ice structures

Gelatin silver print
16.7 x 10,8 cm
 
Feroz Gallery
This photograph was included in the exhibition "Dr. Richard Neuhauss - Winter 1892" (Feroz Gallery, Bonn, Germany, 2011).
 
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60.Richard Neuhauss
1892-1893
Snow crystals and ice structures

Gelatin silver print
16.2 x 10.6 cm
 
Feroz Gallery
This photograph was included in the exhibition "Dr. Richard Neuhauss - Winter 1892" (Feroz Gallery, Bonn, Germany, 2011).
 
LL/44926
61.Richard Neuhauss
1892-1893
Snow crystals and ice structures

Gelatin silver print
10.5 c 16.2 cm
 
Feroz Gallery
This photograph was included in the exhibition "Dr. Richard Neuhauss - Winter 1892" (Feroz Gallery, Bonn, Germany, 2011).
 
LL/44927
62.Unidentified photographer / artist
1905 (publication) 1896 (copyright)
Fig.67 Ink-Crystals, as seen through a microscope

Book illustration
This work is out of copyright
Published in Photographic Amusements including a Description of a Number of Novel Effects Obtainable with the Camera by Walter E. Woodbury (New York: The Photographic Times Publishing Association, 1905)
 
From the Literay Gazette.
 
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63.Arthur Wells Bawtree
1900 (ca)
Wing of a Gnat, Magnified 40 Times

Gelatin silver print
3 in (7.62 cm) x 6 in (15.24 cm)
 
Robert Tat Gallery
Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #1339)
 
LL/8955
64.George Hook Rodman (1861-1933)
1900 (ca)
Hairs on wing of a fly x 450

Gelatin silver print
National Science and Media Museum
The Royal Photographic Society, Ref Number: 2003-5001/2/20192
 
LL/41852
65.Laure Albin-Guillot
1929 (ca)
Micrographie

Tirage argentique
22 x 28 cm
 
Photo Verdeau
LL/7990
66.Carl Strüwe
1933
Stinging Nettle - Urtica - Stinging hairs (Urbild der Abwehr)

Gelatin silver print, Microphotograph 35:1
24 x 18.5 cm
 
Carl-Strüwe-Archiv
© Carl-Struwe-Archiv, Bielefeld, Germany (STR-1-097)
 
LL/27587
67.Sondra Barrett
1979
Frangelico, Sweet Italian, Hazelnut Liqueur
[Microscopic wine crystals]
13 x 19 3/8
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2865
   
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