Following on from our post about Blueprint 2013, anyone interested in the history of photography may like to take a look at ‘The Photography of Victorian Scotland’. This book by Roddy Simpson is described as the first full and coherent introduction to the subject…. Read More ›
Blueprint 2013 is a collaboration between a number of Glasgow galleries, archives and museums, exploring alternative photographic processes, fine art photographic printmaking, technical drawings and the history of photography. There are a number of free exhibitions, talks and visits taking place across the city this… Read More ›
Given the number of news stories about the jubilee celebrations this weekend and the forthcoming Olympic Games, I thought I’d post this picture: a photograph taken in June 1887, at a village sports day marking Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Unfortunately,… Read More ›
The latest Friends of Glasgow University Library talk will be held on Tuesday 24th April at 7pm, in the MacKenna Room, on level 7 of the library. Dr Hilary Macartney will be talking about the subject of her current research: The First… Read More ›
Over the past year we’ve brought you images from 19th century photograph albums in Special Collections, including pictures of Australia, prize-winning views of Britain, China, Egypt, France, Italy, India, Japan, and the USA. You can see a selection of over 100… Read More ›
A new set of images, showing Japan and China in the 1890s, is now online. Dougan 86 is an intriguing mix of professional photographs and amateur snapshots. Despite the technical flaws and haphazard composition of some of the images, they are an appealing, immediate record of… Read More ›
Another 300 images are now available online from our 19th century photograph albums. The contents of three more albums have been digitised: two feature prize winning images by members of the Amateur Photographic Association (founded in 1861); the third is a fascinating ‘photographers logbook’ owned… Read More ›
This image from Special Collections shows a ‘photogenic drawing’ of a plant. It was created in around 1839 by William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the negative/positive process of photography which he patented as the calotype process in 1841. His… Read More ›
The latest 19th century photograph album to be digitised and made available online is Dougan 96. Most of the 175 photographs are the work of Samuel Bourne (1834-1912), who was based in India in the 1860s as part of the… Read More ›
If you’ve seen our previous blog posts you’ll know that one of our current projects is to digitise significant examples from our 19th century photographic collections. We are putting the images online, along with detailed descriptions. This enables us to… Read More ›
