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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
Processing Information
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Items Removed from Collection
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
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.
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interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
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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:
- 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).
- 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