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Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., St. Helen's Church, St. Helen's Square, York, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87011
Unknown creator, 1870 (ca), Fan with applied photographs, Fan, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41862
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Portrait of a young woman, Ambrotype, hand-coloured, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50401
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 21 July, Venice, West Side of the Palazzo Ducale, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75990
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 19 July, 11.17 -11.32 am, Venice, View on the Grand Canal, extending from Palazzo Foscari on the right to Pal. Rezzonico on the left, from the Traghetto di la Fama, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75992
Henry Fox Talbot, 1851 (ca), Photomicrograph of a crystal - study of polarized light, Albumenized paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45411
Peter Henry Emerson, 1900, A Dame's School, Uncertain print type, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43798
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
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51635
Roger Fenton, 1855, The Princess Royal and Princess Alice, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41695
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, The Pagoda Jewels used to adorn the idols, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41855
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100939
Roger Fenton, 1854, York Minster from Lendal, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41688
Helen Messinger Murdoch, 1914, Bishareen children, Aswan, Egypt, Autochrome, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84941
Roger Fenton, 1860 (ca), Parian Vase, Grapes and Silver Cup, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41690
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, House of Sallust, Vesuvius behind, Pompeii, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39428
William Crookes, n.d., Normal' Interference or Polarisation Pattern on Nitre, Photomicrograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83523
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium ruta muraria, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41706
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
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 758, Cockatoo flying, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48209
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 21 July, 8.42 - 8.52 am, Venice, Palazzo Fascari with a portion of Palazzo Guistiniani, from the Portico of Palazzo Mosolino, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76000
Henry Fox Talbot, 1848, 20 May (before), Ash, from Fosse of Castle Rising Norfolk, Paper Negative, camera, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82188
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph, probably a cross-section of a plant stem, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85128
Roger Fenton, 1852, St Saviour's Monastery, Moscow, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/53598
Marquis de Bassano, 1843, 2 July, Place de la Concorde, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80239
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, Capuchin Friars, Valetta, Malta, Paper negative, with applied media, National Science and Media Museum, LL/54212
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 469, Child running, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48210
Henry Peach Robinson, 1858, Her Mother having only one day made some cakes, said to Little Red Riding Hood, "I hear your poor old Grandma has been ailing; so, prithee, go and see if she be any better, and take her these cakes and a pot of butter.'', [Little Red Riding Hood, No.1], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41756
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, Hotel de la Paix and Maison Lucy Hocquet, Rue de la Paix, Paris, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82148
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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 3 June, 11.41 - 12.00 noon, Rome. Remaining columns of the Temple of Nerva and Arco dei Pantali, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75983
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium marinum, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41707
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, 1 January, Photomicrograph of Lace, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73194
Marquis de Bassano, possibly with Nicolaas Henneman and/or William Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, Summer (?), Bust of Minerva, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80240
Eder & Valenta, 1896, X-ray. Cameos in gold settings, X-ray, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51624
Achille Morelli, 1841, June, Aracoeli from the Capitol Tower (Aracoeli dalla Torre del Campidoglio), Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82276
John Furley Lewis (1867-1939), 1908, Rudolf Dührkoop, Paper photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51615
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1865, Study of Prospero - Henry Taylor, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41783
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 4 May, about 9 am, Paestum. Gate called the Porta della Sirena, exterior, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76009
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 16 October, Amélina's harp in the library at Lacock Abbey [Amélina Petit De Billier's harp], Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84433
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., 17. Arch leading to Forum, Pompeii, 2nd series, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82218
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51638
Roger Fenton, 1860, Roger Fenton in volunteers uniform, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41674
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 14 June, XII. The Bridge of Orleans., Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87017
Johann Carl Enslen, 1839, Face of Christ superimposed on an oak leaf, Photogenic drawing, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41846
Roger Fenton, 1857, Ely Cathedral from the Grammar School, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41687
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
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100940
Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1856, Teneriffe Experiment of 1856, Photoglyphed copper plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/65621
Nick Hedges, 1970, October, Mr and Mrs Gallagher lived with their 4 children in a ground floor tenement flat., [Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72], Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55615
William Hope, 1920, Couple with young female spirit, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/36193
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, 1 October, 23. Melrose Abbey, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73198
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 16 May, Ships in the Rouen harbour, seen through a curtained window, Salted paper print, from a calotype negative, digitally enhanced, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80467
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Leaf of a vine (Vitaceae), Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84540
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, 1 April, VI. The Open Door [wide shadow], Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73206
Roger Fenton, n.d., British Museum Gallery of Antiquities, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55925
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph of a section of a plant stem as viewed in a solar microscope, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82190
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Lincoln's Inn New Hall and Library, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82198
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
Anna Atkins, 1853, Aspidium, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41709
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Northumberland House from Trafalgar Square, London, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87006
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Boulevards of Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82155
Roger Fenton, 1856, Highland Gillies at Balmoral, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41697
William Gaskell Helsby, 1848, Daguerreotype case for W.G. Helsby, Retratista, Valparaiso, Daguerreotype, case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/59128
Zoltan Glass, 1934, Mercedes-Benz W25 GP, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45224
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844 (album), Palais de Justice, Rouen, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73193
Henry Peach Robinson, 1870 (ca), Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41753
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, View of the Boulevards at Paris, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82145
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph of a botanical specimen, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83517
Unidentified photographer, 1936, October, Jarrow Marchers en route to London, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43244
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 9 April, An Ancient Door, Magdalen College, Oxford, Paper negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/95482
Roger Fenton, 1852, The Admiralty and Statue of Peter the Great [St Petersburg], Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41675
William Crookes, n.d., ‘Abnormal' Interference or Polarisation Pattern on Calcite Spar, Photomicrograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83522
Anna Atkins, 1853, Ceylon, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41712
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 22 April, Pompeii, The West side of the Street of Tombs with the remains of the Ancient Inn, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75982
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 187, Dancing (fancy), [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48211
Roger Fenton, 1856, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41698
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872, Venus Chiding Cupid and Removing His Wings, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41788
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839 (ca), Roofline of Lacock Abbey, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41806
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Horse Guards Parade from St. James's Park, London, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82197
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1869, The Solar Club, Photographic print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41769
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Beder Ware, Madras Exhibition, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41856
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1857 (ca), Artist's Study, Photographic print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41765
Peter Henry Emerson, 1887, Title page for P.H. Emerson, 1887, Pictures from Life in Field and Fen, (Covent Garden: George Bell and Sons), Title page, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43246
Henry Fox Talbot, 1850 (ca), Laocoon and his sons, Print from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41812
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
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
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Place du Carrousel and roof of the Louvre, Paris, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82165
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Patroclus, Paper Negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82176
Lewis Carroll, 1876 (ca), Xie (Alexandra Rhoda) Kitchin, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41840
Guido Rey, 1910 (ca), Seventeenth Century Costume Piece, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41761
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 20 July, 3.29 - 3.42 pm, Venice, Bridge of the Rialto, and Riva dei Carboni, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76013
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
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1872 (publication), Sneering and Defiance, [The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals], Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43241
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, March, Rome: Temple of Faustina and Antonimus (from South East) now the Church of San Lorenzo in Miranda, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75994
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840 (ca), Photomicrograph of Moth Wings, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/36343
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51630
Roger Fenton, 1855, The Railway Yard, Balaklava, Crimea, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/53602
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
Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1865, Entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73184
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51636
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., 15. Tympanium Table & Wine Cooler, Pompeii, 2nd series, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82217
John Thomson, 1877, Public Disinfectors, [Street Life in London], Woodburytype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43270
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
Unidentified photographer, 1882, 6 December, Inside the Entrenchments [Egyptian entrenchments on the battlefield of Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42467
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph of a botanical specimen, air fern (Sertularia), Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83519
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
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
Constance Talbot, n.d., Photographic Typesetting of Thomas Moore's ‘The Last Rose of Summer', Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/90841
William Hope, 1920, Man surrounded by signs of spirit presence, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48207
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, Hotel Canterbury, Rue de la Paix, Paris, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82147
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, 1 June - 31 October, 160. Dove Cote, Singleton, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87001
Unidentified photographer, 1882, 6 December, Dead soldier at Tel-el-Kebir [Egypt], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42468
Roger Fenton, 1856, Hampton Court from the River, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/70963
Nicolaas Henneman, 1847, Book cover and title page for Nicolaas Henneman, 1847, Talbotypes or Sun Pictures, Taken From The Actual Objects Which They Represent, (London: Nicolaas Henneman), Book, possibly a maquette, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80412
Unknown maker / photographer, 1864 (ca), Portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, Albumen print, in gilt locket, National Science and Media Museum, LL/64131
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
Fannie Coburn, 1910 m(ca), A.L. Coburn, Bromide, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51611
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, no. 3, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51628
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Two Statuettes of "Dancing Fishermen" after Francisque-Joseph Duret, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84014
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph of a feather, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/126490
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 21 July, 12.50 - 1.0 pm, Venice, Riva Degli Schiavone, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75985
Nicolaas Henneman, 1847 (included in book / maquette?), 22. Coley Avenue, Reading, [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/80417
Samuel Bourne, 1864, Portrait of Samuel Bourne, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42073
John Thomson, 1877, Covent Garden Flower Women, [Street Life in London], Woodburytype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41804
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph of a crystal or circular interference pattern, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83520
F.W. Baker and Co, n.d., View of Akbar's tomb (at Sikandra, a suburb of Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India), Daguerreotype, stereo, National Science and Media Museum, LL/98945
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, October, 11. Loch Katrine, [Sun Pictures in Scotland, Plate 11], Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85126
Henry Peach Robinson, 1886-1887, Sketch for "Carrolling", Pencil on paper, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45970
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., 140-154 Regent Street, London, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82200
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Patroclus, Paper Negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82175
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 4 September (probably), Part of Queen's College, Oxford [Detail], Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/67136
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 5 June, 9.32 - 9.44 am, Rome, Piazza Navona from the north east angle, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76014
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Officer, Ambrotype, hand-coloured, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50399
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Martyr's Monument, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/70768
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1928 (ca), Self portrait of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51582
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 4 June, 7.24 - 7.37 am, Rome, Chief or Eastern Facade of the Church of San Giovanni in Laterano, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76007
Henry Fox Talbot, 1841, 19 April, Urn on tabletop, possibly made of milk glass, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/74681
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., The Market at Mechelen, Belgium, Paper Negative-Camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/131854
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 7 June, Place du Carrousel and roof of the Louvre, Paris, Calotype negative / Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82879
Unidentified photographer (British), 1954, New Blanket Provides Protection Against Radiation, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/54293
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Patroclus, Paper Negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82178
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 24 May, 2.48-3.9 pm, Naples, view of Riviera di Chiaia, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76028
Anna Atkins, 1853, Athyrium molle, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41708
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 28 November, Detail of books at Lacock Abbey, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/62645
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., All Souls College Chapel, Oxford, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84273
Unknown maker / photographer, 1864 (ca), Portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, Albumen print, in gilt locket, National Science and Media Museum, LL/64132
Nicolaas Henneman, 1840s (mid), Copy of an Ackermann's Colour Chart, Calotype negative / Digital print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76899
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Folded lace and a botanical specimen [Fragment of lace and botanical specimen, Selaginella (Selaginellaceae)], Paper Negative-Contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84931
Henry Peach Robinson, 1858, Little Red Riding Hood then went and drew back the curtain, when she was much surprised to see how oddly her Grandmother looked in her nightclothes!, [Little Red Riding Hood, No.3], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41758
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, 1841, 8 April, Lady Elisabeth Feilding, posed outside Lacock Abbey, Salt print, from a calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/81871
Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1862, Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.5, Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39432
   

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