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Henry Fox Talbot, 1840 (ca), Photomicrograph of three crystals - study of polarized light, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45413
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Fern leaf, possibly Mimosoidea Suchas, Acacia, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82193
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
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
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 four diatoms, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83521
Roger Fenton, 1857, Ely Cathedral from the Grammar School, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41687
Ernest Payne, 1896 (ca), X-ray photograph of a foot in a shoe, Gelatin silver print, x-ray, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41851
Unidentified photographer, 1882, 6 December, Dead soldier at Tel-el-Kebir [Egypt], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42468
Unknown creator, 1860, Purse decorated with collodion positive photograph, Book-form purse, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41861
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Leaf of a vine (Vitaceae), Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84540
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
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, no. 9, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51632
Anna Atkins, 1851, Title page of "Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns", Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43269
M. de St. Croix, 1839, September-October, View of St Martin-in-the-Fields Church and the National Gallery, London, UK, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80054
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
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Tumbled Books on Two Shelves, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/78336
Nicolaas Henneman, 1840s (mid), Copy of an Ackermann's Colour Chart, Calotype negative / Digital print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76899
Eder & Valenta, 1896, X-ray. Cameos in gold settings, X-ray, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51624
Zoltan Glass, 1931 (ca), Racing car driver reading a newspaper, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45222
Unidentified photographer, 1846, April, Portrait of a dog, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50410
John Thomson, 1877, Public Disinfectors, [Street Life in London], Woodburytype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43270
Unidentified creator, n.d., A dog jumping through a hoop, Magic lantern slide, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43248
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
Unidentified photographer, 1845, 10 February, Julia Margaret Cameron, at age 30, with her daughter Julia Hay Cameron, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/125509
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, 1843, 14 June, XII. The Bridge of Orleans., Paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87016
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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 21 April, Pompeii, The Forum from the South East Angle, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76019
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Place du Carrousel and the Louvre, Paris, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82164
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843-1844, Lattice bridge over the River Avon at Lacock - winter trees, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/72256
Roger Fenton, 1858, Saltash Bridge Under Construction {Cornwall], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41691
William Crookes, n.d., Normal' Interference or Polarisation Pattern on Nitre, Photomicrograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83523
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100939
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 14 June, XII. The Bridge of Orleans., Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87017
W.J. Warren, 1898 (ca), Hansom Cab in Trafalgar Square, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45209
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
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1871 (ca), Rejlander Introduces Rejlander the Volunteer, Albumen print, combination, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41763
Thomas Annan, 1868, Close, No 46 Saltmarket, Photographic print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45217
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Three friends, Ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50402
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
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 5 April, Leafless winter trees in woodyard of Lacock Abbey, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73188
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., The Market at Mechelen, Belgium, Paper Negative-Camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/131854
Lehnert & Landrock, 1925 (ca), Karnak - The Amon Temple, Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39427
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Milliner's Window, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85129
Henry Fox Talbot, 1845 (ca), Bust of Patroclus, [The Pencil of Nature], Photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41813
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1928 (ca), Self portrait of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51582
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826, Un Clair de Lune - Moonlight, Pewter plate with resin of lavender oil, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45228
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100940
Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1862, Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.1, Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39431
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
Anna Atkins, 1853, Lastrea feonisecii, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41700
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
Richard Beard, 1842-1843, Jabez Hogg and Mr. Johnson, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/111477
Anna Atkins, 1853, Darea cicutaria, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41705
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 12 May, around bout 10.30 am, Pompeii. The temple (called that of Jupiter) at the Northern extremity of the Forum, seen from the South East, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75981
Henry Fox Talbot, 1842, 19 October, Portrait of Amélina Petit de Billier with her guitar, seated against a pale backdrop, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84432
Southworth & Hawes, 1850, 24 May, Hawaiian Princes, Alexander Liholiho & Lot Kamahameeaha and G. Parmele Judd, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50407
Richard Beard, 1842-1843, Jabez Hogg and Mr. Johnson, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50405
Anna Atkins, 1853, Aspidium, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41709
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51634
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Officer, Ambrotype, hand-coloured, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50399
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Notes & transcript of a letter relating to hieroglyphics, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82168
Peter Henry Emerson, 1900, A Dame's School, Uncertain print type, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43798
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
Roger Fenton, 1857 (ca), Hyde Park Corner [London], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41686
Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1862, Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.4, Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39433
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
A. Beer, 1855 (ca), The Fisherman's Daughter, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41781
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
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
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1857 (ca), Artist's Study, Photographic print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41765
Lewis Carroll, 1876, Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin playing a violin, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41843
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
Lewis Carroll, 1876 (ca), Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin as Chinese tea merchant, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41842
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
Rufus P. Anson, 1860 (ca), Portrait of a young woman, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50409
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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 21 July, Venice, West Side of the Palazzo Ducale, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75990
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 758, Cockatoo flying, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48209
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 406, Woman pouring bucket of water over another woman, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48213
Constance Talbot, n.d., Photographic Typesetting of Thomas Moore's ‘The Last Rose of Summer', Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/90841
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Vizigapatam work in ivory, buffalo and elk, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41857
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium marinum, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41707
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Patroclus, Paper Negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82178
Louis Jules Duboscq, n.d., Label for retailer "Watkins & Hill, London", Daguerreotype, stereo, National Science and Media Museum, LL/79965
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Venus, Paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76876
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 14 July, 10.37 - 10.45 am, Venice, View on the Grand Canal, expanding from Palazzo Rezzonico on the left to the Palazzo Balbi on the right, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75998
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
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Louvre, Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82153
Lewis Carroll, 1876 (ca), Xie (Alexandra Rhoda) Kitchin, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41840
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., A man at the lodge gateway to a country estate, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87018
Roger Fenton, 1860, Roger Fenton in volunteers uniform, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41674
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, n.d., Intérieur d'une Abbaye en ruines, Photographic plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/35586
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
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, October, 14. Highland Hut on the banks of Loch Katrine, [Sun Pictures in Scotland, Plate 14], Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85125
Zoltan Glass, 1935, View of the Berlin Automobile Exhibition, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45226
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
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 Martyr's Monument, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/70768
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium chinensis, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41699
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Leaf of a plant (carrot family), Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84539
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Ancient pottery, Madras Exhibition, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41858
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844 (album), Palais de Justice, Rouen, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73193
Frederick Pickersgill (British, 1820-1900), 1859, Sunshine and Shade, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45915
F. Holland Day, 1900, James Craig Annan, Platinum process / platinotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51614
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., The Forum, Pompeii, Paper Negative - Camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82214
Unknown maker, 1870 (ca), Wooden fan with photographic portraits, Colour image, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42465
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
Unidentified photographer, 1856, Portrait of Philip Henry Delamotte, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/61492
Antoine Claudet, 1844 (ca), Portrait of William Fox Talbot, Daguerreotype, cased, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41830
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph of a feather, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/126490
Arthur James Melhuish, 1889, Captain W. de W. Abney. C.B, R.E, F.R.S. President of the Camera Club., Woodburytype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51623
Unidentified photographer, 1882, 6 December, Tombs of English killed at Tel-el-Kebir near the station [Egypt], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42469
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Main Gate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85119
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843 (taken) 2018 (digital composite), North aisle of the Louvre, Paris / North half of the Tuileries, Paris, Digital positive, from two calotype negatives, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82878
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Roger Fenton, Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51604
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
Zoltan Glass, 1934, Couple in an Opel 6 Cylinder Roadster motor car, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45220
William Crookes, n.d., ‘Abnormal' Interference or Polarisation Pattern on Calcite Spar, Photomicrograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83522
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Patroclus, Paper Negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82172
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., All Souls College Chapel, Oxford, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84273
George Davison, 1899, Reflections, Weston-on-the-Green, Photogravure, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41831
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 28 November, Detail of books at Lacock Abbey, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/62645
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
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, 1 January, Photomicrograph of Lace, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73194
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 187, Dancing (fancy), [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48211
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Eight Classical statuette on sculpted brackets, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84017
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 16 July, 8.29 - 8.36 am, Venice, Dogana del Mare, & Church of San Maria della Salute, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75995
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
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
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
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Photomicrograph, probably a cross-section of a plant stem, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85128
William Gaskell Helsby, 1848, Daguerreotype case for W.G. Helsby, Retratista, Valparaiso, Daguerreotype, case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/59128
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
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
William Edward Kilburn, n.d., A mother with baby in a bonnet, Ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39424
George Davison, 1890, The Onion Field, Mersea Island, Essex, Photogravure, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41836
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100941
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
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Two Statuettes of "Dancing Fishermen" after Francisque-Joseph Duret, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84014
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium radicans, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41702
Eveleen Myers, 1891 (ca), Rebecca, Photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80646
Henry Fox Talbot, 1841, June, River Thames in London, from Talbot's Cecil Street flat, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/64149
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
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1920-1927 (ca), Mary von Rosen, Photograph Album, Photograph album, National Science and Media Museum, LL/7151
Unidentified photographer, 1845, Julia Margaret Cameron, at age 30, with her daughter Julia Hay Cameron, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73040
Roger Fenton, 1856, Highland Gillies at Balmoral, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41697
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium ruta muraria, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41706
George Hook Rodman (1861-1933), 1900 (ca), Hairs on wing of a fly x 450, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41852
Roger Fenton, 1860 (ca), Parian Vase, Grapes and Silver Cup, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41690
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
   

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