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 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… Read More ›
A recently catalogued photograph album in Special Collections contains some stunning images from the Arctic, taken 90 years ago. John Walton (Professor of Botany, 1930-1962) was a member of an expedition to Spitsbergen in 1921, which included the zoologist and… 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 ›
Images and detailed descriptions are now available online for a collection of photographs showing scenes of 19th century Italy and France. Held in Special Collections, they mainly date from the 1850s and 1860s and feature a number of Italian cities and towns along the… Read More ›
Work is continuing to digitise early photographs held in Special Collections. Recently, we added digital images and detailed descriptions to our online information about two photograph albums, Dougan 103 and Dougan 104. Dating from the 1870s, they contain over 70… Read More ›
A previously undiscovered photograph captured by the pioneering American landscape photographer Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) has been identified in Special Collections. It is a superb example of Watkins’ acclaimed work and depicts The Half Dome, a mountain in what is now… Read More ›
October’s Book of the Month is “Photographic Pleasures” by Cuthbert Bede. The book is a comical and satirical Victorian work about development of early photography, and it provides a concise insight into the world of Victorian photography. The book, published… Read More ›
