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History of Photography collection of material
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  • Conditions Governing Access
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  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Preferred Citation
  • Processing Information
  • Scope and Content
  • Organization and Arrangement
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: History of Photography collection of material
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0092
    Physical Description: 1 oversize box
    Date (inclusive): 1840-1917
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942327883606533 

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Collection of Material about the History of Photography (Collection 92). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Processing Information

    Processed by K. Lopaty, August 1976, revisions by K. Siegel, February 1978.
    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
    We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out the form located on our website: Report Problematic Content and Description in UCLA's Library Collections and Archives. 

    Scope and Content

    Collection consists of examples showing the development of photography from daguerreotypes to Velox prints. Includes ambrotypes, tintypes, albumens, cabinet portraits, and a cyanotype. Also includes a group of prints made from copy negatives of holdings in the Historical Collection of the Royal Photographic Society, London. Photographers include Eadward Muybridge, William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret (Pattle) Cameron, and Gertrude Käsebier.

    Organization and Arrangement

    Arranged in the following series:
    1. Examples of photography (Box 1).
    2. Prints made from copy negatives in the Historical Collection of the Royal Photographic Society, London (Box 2).
    3. Oversize group of prints from copy negatives of above (Oversize box).
    • 1. Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. 2 items. Triple-oversize photographs from copy negatives are shelved with ***TR/16.8/M98 an 1887. Muybridge, Eadweard. Animal Locomotion, 1872-1887. Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Photography -- History -- Archives.
    Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain