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Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, 16 August, South front of Lacock Abbey with Sharington's Tower, Photogenic drawing negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76405
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1857 (ca), Artist's Study, Photographic print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41765
Anna Atkins, 1853, Athyrium molle, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41708
Unidentified photographer, 1890 (ca), Woman in a rowing boat, Snapshot, Kodak 2?, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43245
Henry Fox Talbot, 1845 (published), Lace, Photogenic drawing negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/70939
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Ancient pottery, Madras Exhibition, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41858
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
Arthur E. Durham, 1863-1864, Photomicrograph of a Flea, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/36346
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Bust of Venus, Paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76876
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
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
William Crookes, n.d., Normal' Interference or Polarisation Pattern on Nitre, Photomicrograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83523
Unidentified creator, n.d., A dog jumping through a hoop, Magic lantern slide, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43248
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Fern leaf, possibly Mimosoidea Suchas, Acacia, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82193
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1873 (ca), Queen Philippa interceding for the Burghers of Calais, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41801
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Group of young boys, Ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50400
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., Groupe of the Sabines at Florence [with a decorative lace border], Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73203
Rufus P. Anson, 1860 (ca), Portrait of a young woman, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50409
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826, Un Clair de Lune - Moonlight, Pewter plate with resin of lavender oil, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45228
Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1862, Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.8, Book plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/39430
Unidentified photographer, 1846, 7 February (before), M. Claudet & Mension [sic] with a Palette, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75835
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., The Forum, Pompeii, Paper Negative - Camera, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82214
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Boulevards of Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82152
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, 1851 (ca), Photomicrograph of interference patterns - study of polarized light through crystals, Albumenized paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45412
Marquis de Bassano, 1843, 2 July, Place de la Concorde, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/80239
Henry Fox Talbot, 1833, 5 October, Sketch of Lake Como, Drawing, made with a camera lucida, National Science and Media Museum, LL/42983
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
George Davison, 1899, Reflections, Weston-on-the-Green, Photogravure, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41831
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., 17. Arch leading to Forum, Pompeii, 2nd series, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82218
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Northumberland House from Trafalgar Square, London, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87006
Roger Fenton, 1852, View from Ivan's Tower, Moscow, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41678
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, n.d., Notes & transcript of a letter relating to hieroglyphics, Paper Negative, contact, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82169
Unknown creator, 1860, Purse decorated with collodion positive photograph, Book-form purse, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41861
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
Antoine Claudet, 1844 (ca), Portrait of William Fox Talbot, Daguerreotype, cased, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41830
Walter Benington, 1909, The Cab Rest, Photographic print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45215
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
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. 10, Salt print, from calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51629
Anna Atkins, 1853, Lastrea feonisecii, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41700
Unidentified photographer, 1905, John Dudley Johnston, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51603
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate 406, Woman pouring bucket of water over another woman, [Animal Locomotion], Collotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48213
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 11 June, 2.45 - 2.58 pm, Rome, view from the Salila del Campidaglio, to the left is the Temple of Jupiter Tonans., Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75980
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Boulevards of Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82155
W.J. Warren, 1898 (ca), Fountain in Trafalgar Square, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45208
Unidentified photographer, n.d., A baby with cuttings of hair under the glass, Ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48216
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, n.d., Horse Guards Parade from St. James's Park, London, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82197
William Hope, 1920, Man surrounded by signs of spirit presence, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48207
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
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Three friends, Ambrotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50402
Richard Beard, 1842-1843, Jabez Hogg and Mr. Johnson, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/111477
George Davison, 1907, Cottages Near Aix les Bains, Photogravure, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41834
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100938
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/51638
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
Achille Morelli, 1841, June, Aracoeli from the Capitol Tower (Aracoeli dalla Torre del Campidoglio), Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82276
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, London, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82204
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Woodshed with haystack, Lacock Abbey, Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85120
Roger Fenton, 1856, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41698
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 25 June, 2.57 - 3.3 pm, Pisa. General View of the Piazza del Duomo, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75996
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
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1905 (ca), Beach photographer, Photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51621
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100939
George Bridges, 1847 (included in book / maquette?), 20. Amphitheatre, Taormina, Sicily, [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/80419
William Gaskell Helsby, 1848, Three-quarter length portrait of a man with a short beard, right elbow resting on a book which lies on a table covered with a decorative blue cloth, Daguerreotype, hand-tinted, National Science and Media Museum, LL/59127
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
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, Vizigapatam work in ivory, buffalo and elk, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41857
Anna Atkins, 1851, Title page of "Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns", Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/43269
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 4 April, Patroclus in profile, face and neck from low angle, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73201
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 5 April, Leafless winter trees in woodyard of Lacock Abbey, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73188
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
Roger Fenton, 1856, Hampton Court from the River, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/70963
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Copy of printed sheet music, "Annot Lyle's Song", Andrew McDonald, 1791, Paper nagative, camera, digitally processed and laterally reversed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84431
Zoltan Glass, 1932 (ca), Man falling off a motorcycle, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45221
Henry Fox Talbot, 1846, August (taken), Copy of a hieroglyphic tablet at Ibrim, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82167
Constance Talbot, n.d., Photographic Typesetting of Thomas Moore's ‘The Last Rose of Summer', Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/90841
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1880 (ca), Portrait of a man in braided hair frame, Photograph in a hair frame, National Science and Media Museum, LL/7149
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., The Louvre, Paris, Paper Negative, waxed, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82159
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867, Teachings from the Elgin Marbles, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/130280
Zoltan Glass, 1934, Couple in an Opel 6 Cylinder Roadster motor car, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45220
Roger Fenton, 1857, Ely Cathedral from the Grammar School, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41687
Roger Fenton, 1856 (ca), Prince Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41693
Henry Fox Talbot, 1845 (ca), Portrait of young woman with dog, Photoglyphic engraving, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41811
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, October, 11. Loch Katrine, [Sun Pictures in Scotland, Plate 11], Calotype negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/85126
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, 1869, The Solar Club, Photographic print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41769
Henry Fox Talbot, 1838, 13 December, Flowers and stem, Photogenic drawing, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41808
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
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
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 22 July, 12.14 - 12.24 pm, Venice, General View taken from a position in the Grand Canal, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76004
Rudolf Dührkoop, n.d., Mother and Child, Opalotype - a photograph on white glass, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48214
Anna Atkins, 1853, Aspidium, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41709
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
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
William Crookes, n.d., ‘Abnormal' Interference or Polarisation Pattern on Calcite Spar, Photomicrograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/83522
Roger Fenton, 1857 (ca), Hyde Park Corner [London], Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41686
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 25 June, 7.23-7.31 am, Pisa. The Leaning Tower, Eastern Extremity of the Cathedral, & top of Baptistery, from the top of the City Walls, North East of the Cathedral, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76030
Fannie Coburn, 1910 m(ca), A.L. Coburn, Bromide, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51611
Roger Fenton, 1860 (ca), Parian Vase, Grapes and Silver Cup, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41690
Henry Fox Talbot, 1840, 24 September, Lacock Abbey roofline - 3 minute cloudy - Sept 1840, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73208
George Davison, 1899, Reflections, Weston-on-the-Green, Photogravure, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45197
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
John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond, 1851, The Moon, Daguerreotype, in case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/100941
Unidentified photographer, 1885 (ca), Beach photographers, Photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50397
A.H. Blake, 1908 (ca), The Evening Train, Cannon Street, Carbon print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45187
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
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
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
Roger Fenton, 1860, Roger Fenton in volunteers uniform, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41674
Zoltan Glass, 1931 (ca), Racing car driver reading a newspaper, Black and white photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45222
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
Guido Rey, 1910 (ca), Seventeenth Century Costume Piece, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41761
Roger Fenton, 1855, The Railway Yard, Balaklava, Crimea, Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/53602
William Hope, 1920, Mrs Bentley and the spirit of her deceased sister, Gelatin silver print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/48208
Roger Fenton, 1852, The Admiralty and Statue of Peter the Great [St Petersburg], Salt print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41675
Henry Fox Talbot, 1842 (ca), Rocking Horse at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, National Science and Media Museum, LL/6766
Calvert Richard Jones, n.d., 20. House of Tragic Poet, Pompeii, 2nd series, Salted Paper Print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/82219
Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1856, Teneriffe Experiment of 1856, Photoglyphed copper plate, National Science and Media Museum, LL/65621
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 5 June, Rome: Piazza di Monte Cavallo, from the Quirinal Palace, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75986
F. Holland Day, 1900, James Craig Annan, Platinum process / platinotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51614
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 20 July, 8.7 - 8.17 am, Venice, Palazzi Corner & Palazzo Pesaro, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75997
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
William Gaskell Helsby, 1848, Daguerreotype case for W.G. Helsby, Retratista, Valparaiso, Daguerreotype, case, National Science and Media Museum, LL/59128
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., A man at the lodge gateway to a country estate, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/87019
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., Eight Classical statuette on sculpted brackets, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/84017
Roger Fenton, 1854, York Minster from Lendal, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41688
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium marinum, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41707
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, 1 April, XIV. The Ladder, Waxed paper negative, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73200
J. Paul, 1850 (ca), Portrait of a child, Daguerreotype, hand-coloured, National Science and Media Museum, LL/50408
Unidentified photographer, 1880-1900, Prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs, Album page, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41863
John R.H. Weaver, 1915 (ca), Frederick H. Evans, Platinum print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51605
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
Walter B. Woodbury, 1855 (ca), Sring [sic] Creek Diggings. Ovens., Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51584
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
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
Anna Atkins, 1853, Asplenium radicans, [Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853)], Cyanotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41702
Henry Fox Talbot, 1841, 23 January, South front of Lacock Abbey with Oriel Window, Salted paper print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/73191
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Folded Lace and Botanical Specimen, Photogenic drawing (digitally enhanced), National Science and Media Museum, LL/72732
Unidentified photographer / George Wilson Bridges, 1848, View of Athens - from the Eastern base of the Acropolis 1848. From an original Photograph by the Rev. Bridges. 1848, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/67639
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 20 July, 4.17 - 4.30 pm, Venice, view of the Basilica of San Marco, Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/76006
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
Unidentified photographer, 1856, July, Members of the Photographic Society, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/51588
Henry Fox Talbot, 1845 (ca), Bust of Patroclus, [The Pencil of Nature], Photograph, National Science and Media Museum, LL/41813
Alexander John Ellis, 1841, 20 June, 4.31 - 4.45 pm, Venice, The Basilica of San Marco, in front the three flagpoles., Daguerreotype, National Science and Media Museum, LL/75988
Henry Peach Robinson, 1862, Elaine Watching the Shield of Lancelot, Albumen print, National Science and Media Museum, LL/45910
   

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