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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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 4 May, about 3 pm, Paestum, General View from the summit of the walls near the [so called] Porta del Mare, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76023
Arthur E. Durham, 1863-1864, Photomicrograph of a Flea, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/36346
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, 1 January (taken), Palm Tree near Valetta, 2nd View, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82181
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 4 September (probably), Part of Queen's College, Oxford, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/67135
Roger Fenton, 1857, Ely Cathedral from the Grammar School, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41687
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 25 May, 5.47 - 6 pm, Naples, View from the second floor, South Window of Riveria di Chiaja No 57, looking East, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76024
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 14 June, XII. The Bridge of Orleans., Paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87016
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, The Pagoda Jewels used to adorn the idols, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41855
William Gaskell Helsby, 1848, Daguerreotype case for W.G. Helsby, Retratista, Valparaiso, Daguerreotype, case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/59128
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
John Bulmer, 1965, Washing line, Halifax, Colour photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/72750
Zoltan Glass, 1931 (ca), Racing car driver reading a newspaper, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45222
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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 24 May, 8.10 - 8.24 am, Naples, The Royal Palace, with the barracks below, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76008
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
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Vizigapatam work in ivory, buffalo and elk, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41857
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
W. Hammerschmidt, 1860s, Ba'lbek, Colonnes du grande temple, vue du sud [Baalbek (Lebanon) Columns of the Great Temple, view from the south], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39425
William Hope, 1920, Mrs Bentley and the spirit of her deceased sister, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48208
Frederick Pickersgill (British, 1820-1900), 1859, Sunshine and Shade, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45915
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
Colonel Joseph Gale, 1890 (ca), Workers Return over Bridge, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45200
Marquis de Bassano, 1843, 2 July, Place de la Concorde, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80239
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Place du Carrousel and the Louvre, Paris, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82164
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, 4 May, about 9 am, Paestum. Gate called the Porta della Sirena, exterior, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76009
Roger Fenton, 1857, Slate Pier at Trefriw [Wales], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55926
Nick Hedges, 1971, July, "It's disgusting and appalling. The Housing Minister (Peter Walker) came round here and said it wasn't fit for human habitation, and I'm still here." Mrs Chichockjy, Liverpool 8, [Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72], Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55616
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Hôtel de Ville, Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82161
Unknown creator, 1870 (ca), Fan with applied photographs, Fan, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41862
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Boulevards of Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82154
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
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 Railway Yard, Balaklava, Crimea, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/53602
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 25 June, 5.30 - 5.40 pm, Pisa. The Cathedral, from the North West, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76025
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., All Souls College Chapel, Oxford, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84273
George Davison, 1907, Cottages Near Aix les Bains, Photogravure, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41834
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
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100940
Roger Fenton, 1852, Cottage on the Heights of Kief, above the Dnieper, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41676
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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 25 June, 3.45-3.52 pm, View of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in portrait orientation. Taken from West of the Tower., Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76003
Frank Hurley, 1914-1918, Moving up a division of Australian troops. Reninghelst. 2nd Division, Gelatin silver print, toned (?), National Science and Media Museum, LL/39434
Henry Fox Talbot, 1846, 1 January, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, Paper Negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82162
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
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., A leafless sycamore tree in winter, one minute exposure, Paper Negative, camera, waxed, spotted, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82186
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872, Venus Chiding Cupid and Removing His Wings, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41788
Louis Jules Duboscq, n.d., Still life. Taxidermy cloven hoofed animal rearing, possibly a young Chamois, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Science and Media Museum, LL/79964
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., The Market at Mechelen, Belgium, Paper Negative-Camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/131854
Roger Fenton, 1860, Roger Fenton in volunteers uniform, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41674
Unidentified photographer, 1845, Julia Margaret Cameron, at age 30, with her daughter Julia Hay Cameron, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73040
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Two Statuettes of "Dancing Fishermen" after Duret with “Statuette of Ariadne and the Panther" after Dannecker, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84016
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, 1 January, 67. Colosseum Rome, 2nd view, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73202
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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 5 May, 5.0 - 6.0 pm, Paestum, Gate, Porta della Sirena, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76021
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 2 June, 9.45 - 10.5 am, Rome: The Arch of Janus Quadifrons, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75975
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 3 June, 8.52 - 9.2 am, Rome: The East side of the Triumphal Arch of Titus, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75999
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Folded Lace and Botanical Specimen, Photogenic drawing (digitally enhanced), National Science and Media Museum, LL/72732
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 481, Child lifting a doll, turning, and walking off, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48212
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, no. 5, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51631
Unidentified photographer, 1865 (ca), Family in a boat, Ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50403
Henry Fox Talbot, 1842 (ca), Rocking Horse at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, National Science and Media Museum, LL/6766
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium ruta muraria, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41706
Lewis Carroll, 1876 (ca), Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin as Chinese tea merchant, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41841
Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1862, Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.6, Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39429
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 187, Dancing (fancy), [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48211
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/77114
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Leaf of a vine (Vitaceae), Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84540
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, Capuchin Friars, Valetta, Malta, Paper negative, with applied media, National Science and Media Museum, LL/54212
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, March, Rome, Piazza del Popolo from San Maria di Miracoli, in the centre the obelisk, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75993
Gertrude Käsebier, 1904, The Magic Crystal - The Crystal Gazer, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45210
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
Henry Stevens (1843-1925), 1899 (ca), The Good Companions, Carbon print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41853
Zoltan Glass, 1932 (ca), Man falling off a motorcycle, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45221
Nick Hedges, 1970, July, "Make Life Worth Living", terrace of back-to-back houses, Leeds, West Yorkshire, [Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72], Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55612
Roger Fenton, 1860 (ca), Parian Vase, Grapes and Silver Cup, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41690
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Patroclus, Paper Negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82173
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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 19 July, 12.22 - 12.32 pm, Venice, General View taken from a position in the Grand Canal, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76010
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 4 May, around 1 pm, Paestum. Small Temple, called also Temple of Ceres, from the South West, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75979
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Glass roundel with Oriental scene, Uncertain, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73196
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 25 May, Naples, View from the little Mole in the Villa Reale, looking East, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75968
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
Catherine Mary Wood, 1860 (ca), Page from a family album, Photograph album, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41826
Guido Rey, 1910 (ca), Seventeenth Century Costume Piece, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41761
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 469, Child running, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48210
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 406, Woman pouring bucket of water over another woman, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48213
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874, Venus chiding Cupid and removing his wings: One of the Angel Series, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/52843
W.J. Warren, 1898 (ca), Hansom Cab in Trafalgar Square, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45209
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
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 1 June, Tower of Orléans Cathedral as seen from the opposite tower, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73190
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Elm tree in winter, Lacock Abbey, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82184
Roger Fenton, 1854, York Minster from Lendal, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41688
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, Hotel Canterbury, Rue de la Paix, Paris, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82147
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., Photomicrograph of a section of a plant stem as viewed in a solar microscope, Paper Negative, camera, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82192
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, Rome. View from the Pavillion in the Orti Farnesi on the Palace of the Caesars, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/122442
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 12 May, Pompeii, The Forum from the Southern extremity. In the distance [scarcely visible] Vesuvius, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75971
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, 1833, 6 October, View towards Lecco, Drawing, made with a camera lucida, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42984
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Beder Ware, Madras Exhibition, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41856
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868, Déjatch Alamayou and Basha Félika. Son and heir of King Theodore of Abyssinia and Captain Tristram Speedy, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41792
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Patroclus, Paper Negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82178
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 5 April, Leafless winter trees in woodyard of Lacock Abbey, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73188
Henry Fox Talbot, 1838, 13 December, Flowers and stem, Photogenic drawing, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41808
Unknown maker / photographer, 1864 (ca), Portraits of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, Albumen prints, in gilt locket, National Science and Media Museum, LL/64133
Unknown maker / photographer, 1864 (ca), Portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, Albumen print, in gilt locket, National Science and Media Museum, LL/64131
Antoine Claudet, 1844 (ca), Portrait of William Fox Talbot, Daguerreotype, cased, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41830
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Notes & transcript of a letter relating to hieroglyphics, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82168
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1873, Miss Philpott or Mary (May) Hillier, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/52854
Henry Fox Talbot, 1846, August (taken), Copy of a hieroglyphic tablet at Ibrim, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82166
Henry Peach Robinson, 1870 (ca), Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41753
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Woodshed with haystack, Lacock Abbey, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85120
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, 1892, Negative Discharge, Photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/58665
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, n.d., Portrait of a man seated at a table, holding a book, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85122
Roger Fenton, 1859, The Terrace, Garden and Park, Harewood [near Leeds, Yorkshire], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41692
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Venus, Paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76876
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Rosamond, Ela and Matilda Talbot, against a backdrop in the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85123
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 5 June, Rome: Piazza di Monte Cavallo, from the Quirinal Palace, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75986
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph of a botanical specimen, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83517
Henry Fox Talbot, 1841, 23 January, South front of Lacock Abbey with Oriel Window, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73191
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 758, Cockatoo flying, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48209
Henry Fox Talbot, 1846, 1 January, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82163
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Northumberland House from Trafalgar Square, London, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87006
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840 (ca), Photomicrograph of three crystals - study of polarized light, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45413
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
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/51633
Frank Eugene, 1907, Frank Eugene, Alfred Stieglitz, Heinrich Kuhn and Edward Steichen admiring the work of Eugene, 1907, Platinum process / platinotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51612
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
Constance Talbot, n.d., Photographic Typesetting of Thomas Moore's ‘The Last Rose of Summer', Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/90841
Henry Fox Talbot, 1852-1858, Crossed Muslin, Photographic engraving from a metal plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45216
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Group of young boys, Ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50400
Roger Fenton, 1856, Highland Gillies at Balmoral, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41697
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 21 July, 12.50 - 1.0 pm, Venice, Riva Degli Schiavone, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75985
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, 1 October, 23. Melrose Abbey, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73198
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
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867, Teachings from the Elgin Marbles, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/130280
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Royal Exchange, London, Paper Negative - Camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82196
Unknown artist, 1810 (ca), Silhouette of child, Silhouette, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42464
Roger Fenton, 1857 (ca), Hyde Park Corner [London], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41686
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 21 April, Pompeii, The East side of the Street of Tombs, from one of the upper rooms in the ancient inn. In the distance is the modern town of Torre dell'Annunziata, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76020
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
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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 19 July, 4.57 - 5.12 pm, Venice, The Piazetta di San Marco From the Procuratie Nuovo, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76026
J. Paul, 1850 (ca), Portrait of a child, Daguerreotype, hand-coloured, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50408
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1873 (ca), Queen Philippa interceding for the Burghers of Calais, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41801
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1905 (ca), Beach photographer, Photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51621
John Burke, 1878-1879, His Highness Shere Ali Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, National Science and Media Museum, LL/6846
   

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