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Finding Aid for the Collection of Material about the History of Photography, 1840-1917
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Title: Collection of Material about the History of Photography,
Date (inclusive): 1840-1917
Collection number: 92
Extent: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary 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.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
[Identification of item], Collection of Material about the History of Photography (Collection 92). Department of Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
Arranged in the following series:
- Examples of photography (Box 1).
- Prints made from copy negatives in the Historical Collection of the Royal Photographic Society, London (Box 2).
- Oversize group of prints from copy negatives of above (Oversize box).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.
Photography--History--Archival resources.
- 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.