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Unidentified photographer, 1850s-1860s, A young boy wearing a blue dress, Ambrotype, National Museums Scotland, LL/68360
T.R. Williams, 1850-1855, Old Dancy Enjoying His Pipe, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68429
Archibald Burns, n.d., The White House Inn, Edinburgh, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68346
Unidentified photographer, Lennie (Edinburgh, retailer), 1860s, Life Association Building and New Club in Princes Street, Stereocard, tissue view, National Museums Scotland, LL/68517
Alfred Silvester, n.d., The Ascot, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68438
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), At the Head of the Gairloch, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98349
Gebhardt, Rottmann, & Co., n.d., Health and Wealth, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68437
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1890s, A family group on a beach, a grandmother, parents and three children, Tintype, 1/8 plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68395
London Stereoscopic Company, 1857 (ca), SS Great Eastern during construction, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68469
Francis Frith, 1856-1857, The Temple of Koum Ombos, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68456
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), The Old Man of Storr, Skye, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98340
S. Beverley (Blackpool, c. 1880s - 1890s (fl.)), 1880s-1890s, Portrait of a young woman, Tintype, cameo-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68283
James Elliott, 1857, Broken Vows, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68419
Lucia Van Konningsveld nee Lachet (The Hague, Netherlands), 1870, Unidentified fisherwoman, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68347
J.E. Mayall, 1853-1855, Portrait of a seated elderly woman wearing spectacles knitting an intricate two needle pattern, Daguerreotype, 1/8 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68216
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Otter Island, Loch Katrine, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98314
Ross & Thomson, 1847-1860, Portrait of a small girl holding a framed daguerreotype of a man, Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68220
Camille Silvy, n.d., Unidentified lady wearing crinoline, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68327
John Thomas (Liverpool), n.d., Speciman, Medallion Portraits, 2/6 Per Dozen, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68308
George W. Morgan (Viroqua, Wisconsin, 1850-1900 (fl.)), 1880s-1890s, Portrait of a small girl holding onto a chair, ‘Mamie', Tintype, cameo-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68280
W.H. Schwartz (Brighton), 1850s-1860s, Heads of a couple above pictures of donkeys, in a painted background from a seaside entertainment, Ambrotype, 1/8 plate, mounted for wall hanging, National Museums Scotland, LL/68366
George Washington Wilson, 1861, HMS Cambridge in Hamoaze, great gun practice - a broadside, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98343
Poulson (Ramsgate, England), 1882, A Ramsgate beach scene with beach photographers, Albumen print, from a wet collodion negative, National Museums Scotland, LL/68393
Unidentified photographer, n.d., A woman, sitting, with half the black backing paper removed to demonstrate the effect of a dark background under the bleached negative, Ambrotype, 1/6 plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68362
Oliver Sarony, 1840s-1850s, Portrait of a seated midle-aged man with a mountain backdrop, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, framed for hanging, National Museums Scotland, LL/68204
Unidentified photographer, 1850s-1860s, The heads of a couple in a painted background with the text ‘You Dirty Boy', Ambrotype, 1/8 plate, mounted for wall hanging, National Museums Scotland, LL/68368
T.R. Williams, 1854, The Telescope Gallery [Crystal Palace], Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68475
Unidentified photographer, 1850s-1870s, A man and woman, mounted on a tie pin, Ambrotype, on tie pin, National Museums Scotland, LL/68382
George Washington Wilson, 1863, The Lady Chapel - Roslyn [sic], Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98335
Unidentified photographer, 1851, The Crystal Palace, showing a view of the Western Hall, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68251
Adolphe Braun, 1856-1877, Detail de glace a la mer de glace de Grindelwald (Detail of the Sea of Ice Glacier, Grindelwald), Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68481
Platt D. Babbitt, 1855 (ca), Niagara Falls with three men in top hats in the foreground, Daguerreotype, whole plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68217
London Stereoscopic Company, 1862, The International Exhibition of 1862 - The English Picture Gallery, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68473
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Edinburgh Castle, from the Grassmarket, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98351
Brown & Wheeler, 1878 (?), Railway on Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68338
Unidentified photographer, 1860s-1870s, A street scene in Paris, Stereocard, tissue view, National Museums Scotland, LL/68520
George Washington Wilson, 1863, Loch-in-Dorb, Morayshire, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98344
Louis Jules Duboscq, 1851, A view looking north showing the elm tree in the Crystal Palace Transept at The Great Exhibition,, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68249
J.E. Mayall, 1862, Sir John Login, Albumen print, overpainted with oil paint, National Museums Scotland, LL/68384
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Four young girls doing laundry and ironing, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68415
John Adamson, 1864, Mrs Rachel Adamson, née Melville, Dr Adamson's monther, aged 84, Calotype, Albumen print, from a wet collodion negative, National Museums Scotland, LL/68390
Archibald Burns, n.d., Glasgow Necropolis, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68336
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, A seated young woman, with a Brewster stereoscope and a stereo view in her hand, Ambrotype, 1/8 plate, mounted for wall hanging, National Museums Scotland, LL/68371
Archibald Burns, 1850s-1880s, View of Edinburgh from the castle, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68357
T.R. Williams, 1850-1855, Bread and Cheese in the Barn, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68431
William Russell Sedgfield, 1855-1866, Peterborough Cathedral, The Nave, [Sedgfield's English Scenery, no. 492], Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68442
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1890s, A seated child wearing a lace dress with a tartan sash, Tintype, whole plate, hand-painted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68397
W.J. Robinson, (American Gem Photography Studio of Cardiff and Portsmouth), 1880s-1890s, Portrait of a small girl in a bubble, Tintype, gem-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68276
Leon & Levy, 1860s-1870s, Londres, Albert Memorial (Albert Memorial, London), Stereocard, tissue view, National Museums Scotland, LL/68518
Richard Brown (Liverpool), n.d., An advertisement for "The Photographer Richard Brown", Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68307
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Lincoln Cathedral, from the North-West, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98348
T.R. Williams, 1850-1855, Old Giles's Grind-Stone, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68426
George Washington Wilson, 1863, Maclean's Cross, Iona, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98341
John Paul (Calcutta), 1858-1861, Portrait of a seated middle-aged woman wearing a bonnet. Probably a reversed copy by John Paul of Calcutta of an original by J.J.E. Mayall of London, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68205
James Frederick Lowrie (Liverpool, 1853-1906), 1880-1881, Portrait of a woman, Tintype, gem-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68277
George Washington Wilson, 1860, HMS Royal Albert in the Firth of Forth, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98337
J.W. Allen (Princes St., Duned), n.d., Three unidentified Fijian men, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68348
J.J. Ponder, 1849, Fragment of an advertisement for J.J. Ponder, an itinerant photographer based at Mrs Woodhouse's in Lancaster, found in the case of a daguerreotype, Advertisement, National Museums Scotland, LL/68190
Archibald Burns, n.d., The Grassmarket and Edinburgh Castle, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68353
Jeremiah Gurney, 1853-1874, Portrait of a seated bearded young man leaning on a table, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68219
Antoine Claudet, 1852, Advertisement for Mr. Claudet's Daguerreotype Portrait Rooms, 107 Regent Street, London, Advertisement, National Museums Scotland, LL/68191
Louis Jules Duboscq, 1850s, Geological still life, with instruments and minerals used in the science of crystallography, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68233
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Burns' Cottage, Ayr, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98356
London Stereoscopic Company, 1883, 'Exhibit of The Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners Royal Benevolent Society at the Great International Fisheries Exhibition, S. Kensington, 1883', showing the 'Grace Darling' boat, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68303
J.E. Mayall, 1847-1855, Portrait of a seated middle-aged man, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68225
Archibald Burns, n.d., Views of Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood: Holyrood Palace, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68354
Arthur Brittlebank (London, 1873-1903 (fl.)), 1877-1881, Portrait of a young woman, Tintype, gem-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68288
James McDonald, 1869, Inscription on Rocks near the base of Serbal, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68403
Unidentified photographer (sold by London Stereoscopic Company, Sydenham), 1851 (ca), John Bell's sculpture Una and the Lion, at the Crystal Palace, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68238
James Frederick Lowrie (Liverpool, 1853-1906), 1880-1881, Portrait of a woman, mounted in a Christmas greetings to 'Uncle Alford' decorated carte de visite card, Tintype, gem-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68281
Francis Frith, 1856-1857, The Rock Temple of Derr, now the chief town in Nubia, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68447
Unidentified photographer, n.d., The Laundry, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68410
William Edward Kilburn, 1852-1855, Portrait of a seated woman with a book in her hand, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68228
Archibald Burns, 1850s-1880s, Edinburgh From the Calton Hill, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68358
George Washington Wilson, n.d., Stonebyres Falls on the Clyde, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98319
Beard's Photographic Institutions (London and Liverpool), 1852-1854, Portrait of the head and shoulders of a woman wearing a lace shawl and white bonnet, Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68223
Francis Frith, 1857, Jerusalem, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68465
T.R. Williams, 1850-1855, The Village Schoolmistress, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68430
Peter McGill, 1900 (ca), Two men in front of a backdrop of the Forth Bridge, Tintype, 1/6 plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68394
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, Two men playing chess, one has his side profile reflected in the mirror behind them, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68262
Elliott & Fry, n.d., Folded printed carte-de-visite list, with a small envelope marked 'List of celebrities', Advertisement, National Museums Scotland, LL/68352
George Washington Wilson, n.d., A Bay on Loch Katrine, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98318
William Edward Kilburn, 1852-1855, Portrait of a young woman, leaning on a chair and wearing a striped dress, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68208
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), On the Thames at Greenwich - Arrival of the Boat, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98347
Unidentified photographer, n.d., The Great Eastern in Southampton Water, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68472
Unidentified photographer, 1840s-1850s, Large gilt locket containing a daguerreotype of a young man, with gold decoration, and a manuscript 'To my beloved and affectionate wife, sincerely praying we meet in heaven", Locket, with daguerreotype, National Museums Scotland, LL/68268
William Edward Kilburn, 1852-1855, Portrait of a seated elderly woman wearing a white bonnet and a black dress, Daguerreotype, 1/8 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68222
Unidentified maker, n.d., Carte-de-visite album, fan-style wooden display stand, with five internal leaves and leather covers, Carte de visite album, National Museums Scotland, LL/68350
William Russell Sedgfield, 1855-1866, York Minster, The West Tower, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68443
J.W. Newland, 1850-1857, Wet stamp for "Newland's Daguerreotypes", Wet stamp, National Museums Scotland, LL/68202
Unidentified photographer, 1860, Shah Jahan, daughter of and successor to Sikander Jahan, Begum of Bhopal State, India, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68194
James Elliott, n.d., Very pretty indeed, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68435
Louis Jules Duboscq, 1850s, A still life showing a taxidermied white cat, balls of wool, a bottle of water and a glass on a tablecloth, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68242
Louis Jules Duboscq, 1852 (ca), Eye chart stereocard, stereo-lithograph made from a stereo-daguerreotype, depicting a seated man leaning on a book on a table, Stereo lithograph, National Museums Scotland, LL/68270
Unidentified photographer, 1860, Sikander Jahan, Begum of Bhopal State, India, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68193
Unidentified photographer, 1870 (ca), A view of the interior of an unidentified English church, Ambrotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68377
The London School of Photography, 1858-1860, A man holding the bridle of a grey horse in a harness, Ambrotype, 1/4 plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68376
William England, 1866 (ca), Vue dans le Parc a Wiesbaden (View of the park at Weisbaden), [Views of the Rhine and Its Vicinity], Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68408
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Roslyn Chapel - South Door, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98326
Edward Reeves, n.d., Unidentified girl seated by a stereoscope and album, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68322
Jules Duboscq and C.W. Dixey, 1850s, A model grotto with a church and other buildings amongst trees, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68255
Platt D. Babbitt, 1855 (ca), Niagara Falls with three men in top hats in the foreground, Daguerreotype, whole plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68218
Lowden/Scott's (patent), 1856, Stereoscope no.199 on a lacquered-brass and wooden column and turned wooden base, sold by Negretti & Zambra, London, Stereoscope, National Museums Scotland, LL/68400
Calcutta Fine Art Photographic Studio (Calcutta), n.d., A child on a swing holding statuette of man fighting a tiger, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68315
Robert Howlett, n.d., Isambard Kingdom Brunel standing against a backdrop of the chains of the SS Great Eastern, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/97181
Unidentified photographer, Lennie (Edinburgh, retailer), 1860s, A View of Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh and the Old Town from Princes Street, Stereocard, tissue view, National Museums Scotland, LL/68515
T.R. Williams, 1854, The Telescope Gallery [Crystal Palace], Stereocard, half, detail, National Museums Scotland, LL/68476
Anglo American Photo Company (Bristol, Birmingham and London), 1880-1884, Portrait of a bearded man, Tintype, gem-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68289
T.R. Williams, 1850-1855, Maria Carson's Washing-Day, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68425
Unidentified photographer, 1870 (ca), An advertisement for Dr Dixon, a homeopathic practitioner and dental surgeon, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68292
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98359
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Unidentified gentleman standing by a table with a stereoscope, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68320
George Washington Wilson, 1863, Balmoral Castle from the North West, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98315
George Washington Wilson, n.d., Clamshell Cave, Staffa, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98317
James Elliott, 1855-1860, Nice Duck, Sir?, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68434
Francis Frith, 1856-1857, The Temple of Edfou, of the Grecian Period, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68457
Francis Frith, 1856-1857, The Sphynx and the Great Pyramid, at Geezeh, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68461
John Adamson, 1860s, Amelia Paton (Mrs D.O. Hill), Calotype, Albumen print, from a wet collodion negative, National Museums Scotland, LL/68392
Louis Pierson, 1844-1860, Portrait of a seated man with one arm propped on a book lying on a table, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68246
Unidentified photographer, 1860, The Making of Stereographs, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68477
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Dhu Loch Avenue, Inverary, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98354
James McDonald, 1869, Jebel ed Deir near the Convent of St. Katherine, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68406
1850s, Stereoscope, Mascher's Improved Stereoscope, case with pair of viewing lenses on a hinged panel, holding a stereo-ambrotype of an unidentified lady, Stereoscope, National Museums Scotland, LL/68398
James McDonald, 1869, Summit of Jebel Musa from Jebel ed Deir, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68405
Francis Frith, 1856-1857, View in the Principal Court of the Large Temple at Philae, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68451
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Palm House, Kew Gardens, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68341
John Adamson, 1850s, Miss Godfrey, Calotype, Albumen print, from a wet collodion negative, National Museums Scotland, LL/68389
Frederick Jones (London), 1862-1868, A seated man holding strings, possibly a puppeteer, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68311
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Calton Hill, Edinburgh, with Calton Jail in the middle distance, Daguerreotype, National Museums Scotland, LL/68192
James Elliott, n.d., Very pretty indeed, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68436
Richard Lowe (Cheltenham), 1850-1856, Portrait of a young girl in a white dress, sitting in a child's cane chair propped on an adult chair, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68203
George Washington Wilson, n.d., Entrance to the Pass of Ballater, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98321
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Portrait of a young girl, Tintype, gem-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68284
Unidentified photographer, 1840s-1850s, Portrait of a seated man wearing a military uniform and holding a baton, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68215
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, Portrait of two small girls reading, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68232
Joseph J. Ponder (probably, itinerant photographer at Lancaster), 1849, Portrait of a middle-aged man in check trousers with a library backdrop, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68224
William John Naudin (Kensington), 1894-1909, Portrait of an unidentified nurse, wearing a medal on a ribbon, possibly the Royal Red Cross, a nursing gallantry award, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68295
Unidentified photographer, 1860s-1870s, Berlin, Unter den Linden, Stereocard, tissue view, National Museums Scotland, LL/68521
Robert Howlett & George Downes (London), 1857, The Leviathan, Steam Ship - Deck view, looking forward, taken amidships, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68471
T.R. Williams, 1850s, Portrait of an unidentified woman in a pale purple dress with a zigzag white lace design and a black shawl, Daguerreotype, stereo, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68259
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Westminster Abbey - The Choir, looking East, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98345
William Russell Sedgfield, 1855-1866, Dover Harbour, [Sedgfield's English Scenery], Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68446
George Washington Wilson, n.d., Iona Cathedral and St Martin's Cross, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98320
Archibald Burns, 1850s-1880s, Calton Hill From the North Bridge, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68355
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, A man in academic robes leaning on a gothic pillar, Ambrotype, 1/6 plate, tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68374
L. Shaw (Buntingford), n.d., A seated lady with a stereoscope in studio setting, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68318
William England, 1863-1868 (ca), Grandes Crevasses sur la Mer de Glace, Chamounix, Savoie (Large Cracks on the Sea of Ice, Chamounix, Savoie), [Views of Switzerland], Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68409
James McDonald, 1869, Wady Aleyat and Jebel Serbal, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68402
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), The Bishops Tower, Kirkwall, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98357
Louis Jules Duboscq, 1852 (ca), A still life of a snake wrapped around a branch, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68253
Robert Howlett & George Downes (London), 1857, The Leviathan, Steam Ship - Side view, showing cradles, taken from the river side at low water, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68468
Walter Fisher (Filey), 1857 (or later), A photographers advertisement for "Superior Ivory-Toned Photographs", Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68302
Michael Burr, 1860-1865, Fast Day - A Horrible Intrusion, Stereocard, hand-coloured, National Museums Scotland, LL/68417
Archibald Burns, n.d., Mary Queen of Scot's Bath House, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68343
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1890s, Portrait of a girl in sailor suit sitting in a boat and holding a spade, Tintype, cameo-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68278
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), View from Ryde, Isle of Wight - Evening, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98338
George Ruff (Brighton), 1858, 30 January, Two dolls on a chair, Ambrotype, 1/9 plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68367
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Burns Monument, Edinburgh, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98329
Louis Jules Duboscq, 1850s, A ceramic dish with shells, leaves and a snake, Daguerreotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68235
T.R. Williams, 1850-1855, Mrs. Giles At Her Pump, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68433
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1890s, A seated man, Tintype, whole plate, hand-painted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68396
George Washington Wilson, n.d., Bonnington Falls on the Clyde, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98316
Camille Silvy, n.d., Unidentified seated gentleman holding a cane, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68332
Archibald Burns, 1879 (possibly), Nelsons Monument, Edinburgh, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68356
Wilson (Cupar, Fife, Scotland), n.d., Unidentified lady standing by a stereoscope, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68324
George Washington Wilson, 1860 (ca), Stonehenge - Near View from the South, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98336
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Unidentified seated young child, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68326
Ross & Thomson, 1863 (registered), A cook and fishwife, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68299
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, Portrait of a woman holding a bird and a nest full of eggs, reflected in a mirror, her jewellery is highlighted with silver paint, Daguerreotype, stereo, hand-painted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68261
Joseph Green (Reading), n.d., A maid, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68300
Jabez Hughes, 1856, 22 August, Portrait of a young lady Catherine Claasen, Glasgow, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68195
Unidentified photographer, 1840s-1850s, Portrait of a seated elderly woman in a white bonnet, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68229
Archibald Burns, n.d., Gravestone in Greyfrairs Churchyard, Edinburgh, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68342
George Washington Wilson, 1863, The Colonel's Bed, Glen Ey, Braemar, a hiding place during the rebellion of 1715, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98332
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), Lerwick and Ward of Bressay, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98358
John Adamson, 1850s, Miss Helen (or Ellen) Murray, Calotype, Albumen print, from a wet collodion negative, National Museums Scotland, LL/68386
Louis Jules Duboscq, 1852 (ca), Stereocard, stereo-lithograph made from a stereo-daguerreotype, depicting a taxidermy arrangement of a snake in a tree, used as an eye chart, Stereo lithograph, National Museums Scotland, LL/68271
Unidentified photographer, 1840s-1850s, Bracelet containing a daguerreotype of a lady, with a gilded strap, a chain fixing and an engraved hinged cover, Bracelet, with daguerreotype, National Museums Scotland, LL/68265
Charles F. Ravis, 1857-1859, Two unidentified women, one seated and one standing, the latter holding a plant on a plinth, Ambrotype, stereo, National Museums Scotland, LL/68378
Mathew B. Brady, 1853-1854, Portrait of George R. Gliddon (1809-1857), Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68199
Francis Frith, 1856-1857, Great Hall of Columns at Karnac, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68458
Unidentified photographer, 1840s-1850s, Portrait of a girl on a Shetland pony, with two smaller children, outside the front door of a house, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/68227
John Adamson, 1860s, David Octavius Hill, Calotype, Albumen print, from a wet collodion negative, National Museums Scotland, LL/68391
T.R. Williams, 1855, The Church Seen Through the Trees, Stereocard, National Museums Scotland, LL/68423
Unidentified photographer, 1840s-1850s, Large brooch containing an oval daguerreotype of a man, in a gilt brass support with scrolled decoration and a plain back, Brooch, with daguerreotype, National Museums Scotland, LL/68267
Unidentified photographer, 1880s-1890s, Portrait of a man identified as ‘Uncle Gavin', Tintype, gem-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68286
Unidentified photographer, 1840s-1850s, Portrait of a seated woman holding spectacles and a letter, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, carved wood and plaster frame for hanging, National Museums Scotland, LL/68231
J. Craig, 1853 (ca), Advertisement poster for daguerreotype portraits by Mr. John Craig, an itinerant photographer at Saffron Walden [England], Advertisement, National Museums Scotland, LL/68189
Enrico Gabrielli, n.d., Portrait of a woman, possibly a maid, holding a fur, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68297
Francis Bedford, n.d., Clifton - Suspension Bridge and Leigh Woods, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68335
Unidentified photographer, 1880s-1890s, Portrait of a small girl, Tintype, gem-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68287
George Washington Wilson, 1860-1870 (ca), The Edgar Tower, Worcester, Stereoview, National Museums Scotland, LL/98352
James Walker (Hull), 1881 (ca), A barefoot man holding a sextant, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68314
Antoine Claudet, 1852-1868, Portrait of a seated gentleman, cased with a manuscript label pinned inside reading ‘T. E. Whitby / Hal's grandfather',, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted, National Museums Scotland, LL/68210
Henry Fox Talbot, 1858 (ca), Detail of a photoglyphic Engraving plate of printed matter, Engraving plate, National Museums Scotland, LL/70767
D. Fruwirth (London), n.d., An unidentified lady in front of a studio backdrop of the Crystal Palace, Carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68312
Unidentified photographer, 1877, Informal portrait of four men standing in front of a poster for the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, Ambrotype, 1/8 plate, mounted for wall hanging, National Museums Scotland, LL/68370
James Elliott, 1857, Broken Vows, Stereocard, hand-coloured, half, detail, National Museums Scotland, LL/68420
J. Jewell (Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle-upon-Tyne), 1880s-1890s, Portrait of a woman wearing a hat, mounted in a Christmas greetings decorated carte de visite, Tintype, gem-size, mounted in a decorated carte de visite, National Museums Scotland, LL/68291
   

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