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PUDS Blog: Radio 4 Today
This morning the Radio 4 programme Today broadcast a feature about the Wellcome Library’s ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations’ project. The Wellcome Library is bringing the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, which includes material from leading figures from … Continue reading
PUDS Blog: Photovision 2012
On 27th March 2012 the University of Glasgow’s Photographic Unit descended on Photovision 2012; the photographic trade show, this year held at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh. The event held annually and across the UK, hosted a variety of industry professional service providers, seminars and presentations. A number of the exhibitors at Photovision are … Continue reading
Friends of Glasgow University Library Talk
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 Photographically Illustrated Book on Art: The Talbotypes Volume of William Stirling’s Annals of the Artists … Continue reading
PUDS Blog: The archivist’s choice
As today’s post I would like to share some of my favourite images of the 3 Glasgow geneticists, whose papers are presently being digitised having been selected for inclusion in the Wellcome Digital Library’s Modern Genetics and its Foundations. Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo (1907-1999) Pontecorvo (second on right facing the camera) having a drink with … Continue reading
PUDS Blog: Hello!
Welcome to the Photographic Unit’s Digitisation Suite (PUDS) Blog Over the next 12 months digitisers Sam Dyer and Jamie Dunn, along with Project Manager Dr Sam Maddra, will be embarking on their first major digitisation task, the Glasgow Modern Genetics Wellcome Digital Library Project. The Wellcome Digital Library (WDL) has selected for inclusion in their pilot … Continue reading
19th century photographs online: a tour across the world
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 of these images on flickr. Our tour comes to an end back in the British … Continue reading
19th century photographs online: East Asia
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 people, places and events. The album contains 124 photographs, mostly albumen with some silver gelatine prints. They … Continue reading
Just… place photos in the album
The Preservation Unit has been involved in our Wellcome funded project to catalogue and preserve the papers of Professor Guido Pontecorvo. The project assistant, Karyn, has been absorbed not only by the whirl of events and facts of the past life of Pontecorvo but she also physically felt the connection with photographs through the smells … Continue reading
Victorian lives in pictures
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 by Fanny Pickard (born in 1847). Fishing party, Northumberland, 1862 (Dougan 101 item 12) The Association … Continue reading
Garibaldi and the Unification of Italy
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, which was proclaimed on 17 March, 1861, in Turin. With celebrations taking place across Italy, we thought now would be a fitting moment to highlight some of the material from Special Collections which is related both to this period in Italian history, and to … Continue reading
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