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Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Pantheon, Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82156
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Notes & transcript of a letter relating to hieroglyphics, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82169
Henry Peach Robinson, 1858, Little Red Riding Hood hastened home to tell her mother all that had befallen her; nor did she forget that night to thank heaven fervently having delivered her from the jaws of the Wolf, [Little Red Riding Hood, No.4], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41759
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
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
Colonel Joseph Gale, 1890 (ca), Workers Return over Bridge, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45200
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
Henry Fox Talbot, 1841, 19 April, Urn on tabletop, possibly made of milk glass, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/74681
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Rosamond, Ela and Matilda Talbot, in the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85124
Unknown artist, 1810 (ca), Silhouette of child, Silhouette, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42464
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, n.d., Statuette of Ariadne and the Panther, after Heinrich Dannecker, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84011
W.J. Warren, 1898 (ca), Fountain in Trafalgar Square, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45208
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1918, George Davison, Photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/53603
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
Clarence H. White, 1909, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Platinum process / platinotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51610
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1873, Miss Philpott or Mary (May) Hillier, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/52854
Henry Peach Robinson, 1858, ''Who is there?' said the Wolf, [Little Red Riding Hood, No.2], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41757
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Group of young boys, Ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50400
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium marinum, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41707
Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1865, Entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73184
Frank Hurley, 1918, 8 August, The morning of Aug.8th 1918. German prisoners just taken, returning in charge of a single Australian past their own burning dug-outs, Gelatin silver print, toned (?), National Science and Media Museum, LL/39435
Helen Messinger Murdoch, 1914, Bishareen children, Aswan, Egypt, Autochrome, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84941
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
Lehnert & Landrock, 1925 (ca), Karnak - The Amon Temple, Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39427
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, 50. Street at Pompeii leading to the Forum, 2nd series, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82215
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Patroclus, Paper Negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82176
Zoltan Glass, 1936, Chassis and engine of a Mercedes-Benz Type 170, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45227
Unidentified photographer, 1880-1900, Prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs, Album page, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41863
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, Rome, Western side of the Church of San Maria Maggiore, with the small obelisk, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76022
Henry Fox Talbot, 1851 (ca), Photomicrograph of a crystal - study of polarized light, Albumenized paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45411
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 14 June, XII. The Bridge of Orleans., Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87017
Henry Fox Talbot, 1842, 9 April, An empty armchair on a lawn, set against a backdrop, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82208
Lewis Carroll, 1876 (ca), Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin as Chinese tea merchant, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41842
Henry Fox Talbot, 1841 (ca), The crown of the 1810 Erard Harp in Lacock Abbey,, Salt print, from a calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/71261
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, 1 January, Palm Tree near Valetta, 2nd View, Paper Negative, camera, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82180
Unknown maker / photographer, 1864 (ca), Portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, Albumen print, in gilt locket, National Science and Media Museum, LL/64131
Peter Henry Emerson, 1900, A Dame's School, Uncertain print type, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43798
Antoine Claudet, 1844 (ca), Portrait of William Fox Talbot, Daguerreotype, cased, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41830
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50406
Henry Fox Talbot, 1850 (ca), Laocoon and his sons, Print from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41812
Roger Fenton, 1858, Saltash Bridge Under Construction {Cornwall], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41691
Louis Jules Duboscq, n.d., Label for retailer "Watkins & Hill, London", Daguerreotype, stereo, National Science and Media Museum, LL/79965
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, no. 13, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51626
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
Anna Atkins, 1853, British Ferns, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41710
Roger Fenton, 1852, View from Ivan's Tower, Moscow, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41678
Gertrude Käsebier, 1904, The Magic Crystal - The Crystal Gazer, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45210
Fannie Coburn, 1910 m(ca), A.L. Coburn, Bromide, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51611
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, 1 October, 23. Melrose Abbey, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73198
Unidentified photographer, 1856, Portrait of Philip Henry Delamotte, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/61492
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840 (ca), Photomicrograph of Moth Wings, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/36343
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 21 April, Pompeii, The Forum from the South East Angle, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76019
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 5 May, 5.0 - 6.0 pm, Paestum, Gate, Porta della Sirena, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76021
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Boulevards of Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82151
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., All Souls College Chapel, Oxford, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84273
Southworth & Hawes, 1850, 24 May, Hawaiian Princes, Alexander Liholiho & Lot Kamahameeaha and G. Parmele Judd, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50407
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 24 May, 8.10 - 8.24 am, Naples, The Royal Palace, with the barracks below, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76008
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
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
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826 (ca), Le Cardinal d'Amboise, Heliograph on pewter, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45989
Henry Fox Talbot, 1842, 20 April, Lady Elisabeth Feilding as Paolina Borghese, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73192
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
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
Lewis Carroll, 1876 (ca), Xie (Alexandra Rhoda) Kitchin, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41840
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
Anna Atkins, 1851, Title page of "Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns", Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43269
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
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1880 (ca), Mourning brooch containing a portrait of a woman, Photograph in a mourning brooch, National Science and Media Museum, LL/7150
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 7 June, Place du Carrousel and roof of the Louvre, Paris, Calotype negative / Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82879
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
Roger Fenton, 1854, York Minster from Lendal, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41688
Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1862, Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.1, Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39431
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/82144
Unknown creator, 1870 (ca), Fan with applied photographs, Fan, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41862
Roger Fenton, 1856 (ca), Prince Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41693
Roger Fenton, 1854 (ca), Cuneiform Clay Tablet, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41689
Ward Muir, 1916, London Buses, Bromide print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45198
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., A leafless sycamore tree in winter, one minute exposure, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82185
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 28 November, Detail of books at Lacock Abbey, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/62645
Anna Atkins, 1853, Aspidium denticulatum, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41704
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
William Hope, 1920, Man surrounded by signs of spirit presence, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48207
Walter B. Woodbury, 1856, 23 August, Letter from Walter Bentley Woodbury to his mother with a photograph of his photographic studio in Melbourne, Australia, Letter, with photographic print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/90486
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Ancient pottery, Madras Exhibition, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41858
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872, King Lear allotting his kingdom to his three daughters, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41787
Zoltan Glass, 1934, Couple in an Opel 6 Cylinder Roadster motor car, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45220
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, n.d., Intérieur d'une Abbaye en ruines, Photographic plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/35586
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 24 May, 3.44 - 4.9 pm, Naples: Palazzo Cirelli to Sta Lucia from the steps of the Church S. Maria alla Calena, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76011
Roger Fenton, 1860, Roger Fenton in volunteers uniform, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41674
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 20 July, 8.7 - 8.17 am, Venice, Palazzi Corner & Palazzo Pesaro, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75997
Nick Hedges, 1970, August, Kitchen of slum house, Birmingham Duddleston, [Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72], Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55617
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
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
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, n.d., Elm tree in winter, Lacock Abbey, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82184
Roger Fenton, 1857 (ca), Buckingham Palace, Old Front, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41685
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
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, House of Sallust, Vesuvius behind, Pompeii, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39428
Henry Fox Talbot, 1841, 23 January, South front of Lacock Abbey with Oriel Window, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73191
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Beder Ware, Madras Exhibition, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41856
Nicolaas Henneman, 1847, The photographs included in Nicolaas Henneman, 1847, Talbotypes or Sun Pictures, Taken From The Actual Objects Which They Represent, (London: Nicolaas Henneman), Index of images, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80414
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
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
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium chinensis, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41699
Unidentified photographer, 1890 (ca), Beach photographer, Kodak circular snapshot, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51620
Unidentified photographer, n.d., View of St. Paul's cathedral, London, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80053
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868, Déjatch Alamayou and Basha Félika, King Theodore's son and Captain Speedy, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41793
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Officer, Ambrotype, hand-coloured, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50399
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Tumbled Books on Two Shelves, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/78336
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., Place du Carrousel and roof of the Louvre, Paris, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82165
Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1856, Teneriffe Experiment of 1856, Photoglyphed copper plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/65621
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
Unidentified photographer, 1846, April, Portrait of a dog, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50410
Unidentified photographer, 1890 (ca), Woman in a rowing boat, Snapshot, Kodak 2?, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43245
Rufus P. Anson, 1860 (ca), Portrait of a young woman, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50409
Lewis Carroll, 1876, Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin playing a violin, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41843
Unknown maker / photographer, 1864 (ca), Portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, Albumen print, in gilt locket, National Science and Media Museum, LL/64132
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., Leaf of a vine (Vitaceae), Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84540
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826, Un Clair de Lune - Moonlight, Pewter plate with resin of lavender oil, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45228
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, Hotel Canterbury, Rue de la Paix, Paris, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82147
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
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872, Venus Chiding Cupid and Removing His Wings, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41788
Roger Fenton, 1852, Cottage on the Heights of Kief, above the Dnieper, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41676
Henry Fox Talbot, 1842 (ca), Fern, Photogenic drawing negative / Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/77089
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51637
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1872 (publication), Contempt, [The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals], Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43240
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 4 September (probably), Part of Queen's College, Oxford, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/67137
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Northumberland House from Trafalgar Square, London, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87006
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 406, Woman pouring bucket of water over another woman, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48213
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1920-1927 (ca), Mary von Rosen, Photograph Album, Photograph album, National Science and Media Museum, LL/7151
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Portrait of a patient from Surrey County Asylum, no. 10, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51629
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, 25 June, 5.30 - 5.40 pm, Pisa. The Cathedral, from the North West, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76025
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, 1889 (ca), The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company stand at a trade fair, Kodak circular snapshot print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42470
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Martyr's Monument, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/70768
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
Roger Fenton, 1857, Slate Pier at Trefriw [Wales], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/55926
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
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
Hill & Adamson, 1845, J. Ballantyne, Dr. George Bell and David Octavius Hill, Salted paper process, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51616
Nicolaas Henneman, 1840s (mid), Copy of an Ackermann's Colour Chart, Calotype negative / Digital print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76899
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., Bust of Patroclus, Paper Negative, camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82178
   

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