Finding Aid for the Collection of Material about the History of Photography LSC.0092
Finding aid prepared by K. Lopaty; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Online finding aid last updated 2002.
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Title: History of Photography collection of material
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0092
Physical Description:
1 oversize box
Date (inclusive): 1840-1917
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942327883606533
[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.
Processed by K. Lopaty, August 1976, revisions by K. Siegel, February 1978.
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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).
- 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
Examples of Photographs
box 1, folder 1
Daguerreotypes.
- 1. Daguerreotype 1/6th plate: girl in striped dress, badly scratched inner case covered with tweed; image sealed with scotch tape.
- 2. Daguerreotype 1/6th plate: girl in carved chair; cleaned case needs rehinging.
- 3. Splendid 1/4th plate in unusual frame; portrait of young girls.
box 1, folder 2
Ambrotypes.
- 4. Ambrotype 1/9th plate: very good, backed with cloth, but emulsion protected by glass.
- 5. Ambrotyype 1/6th plate: interesting patriotic protector frame; example of deterioration from cloth cacking.
- 6. Ambrotype 1/4th plate: uncased; painted backing, asphaltum.
- 7. Ambrotype 1/9th plate on ruby glass.
box 1, folder 3
Tintypes.
- 8. Tintype: full plate portrait, tinted.
- 9. Tintype: full plate group portrait in buggy.
- 10-11. Tintypes 1/6th plates: very good portraits.
- 12-14. Tintypes 1/6th plates in paper jackets.
- 15-17. Tintypes 1/6th plates: ordinary.
- 18. Tintype 1/9th plate in paper sleeve with ad on verso.
- 19. Tintype damaged from cleaning.
- 20. Tintype in paper jacket: gem.
box 1, folder 4
box 1, folder 5
box 1, folder 6
Gelatin cabinets and other portraits.
- 32-36. Cabinet portraits: ordinary.
- 37. Imperial (10 × 7 in.).
- 38. Cabinet portrait on larger mount (7.25 × 5 in.).
- 39. Cabinet portrait on larger mount (8.25 × 7.75 in.).
- 40. Group portrait, 5 × 7 in. mount.
- 41. Portrait on 10.75 × 8 in. mount.
- 42. Velox portrait.
box 1, folder 7
A Group of Prints Made from Copy Negatives of Holdings in the Historical Collection of the Royal Photographic Society, London
box 2, folder 3
box 1
Oversize group of prints made from copy negatives.
- 1. Cameron, Julia Margaret (Pattle) 1815-1879. 25 items.
- 2. Carnarvon, Henry Howar Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of, 1830-1890. 1 item.
- 3. Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966. 3 items.
- 4. Day, F. Holland, 1864-1933. 2 items.
- 5. Emerson, Peter Henry, 1856-1936. 1 item.
- 6. Fenton, Roger, 1819-1896. 1 item.
- 7. Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934. 1 item.
- 8. Keighley, Alexander, 1861-1947. 1 item.
- 9. Konc, Olga. 1 item.
- 10. Mortimer, F.J., d. 1944. 4 items.
- 11. Rejlander, Oscar Gustave, 1813-1875. 1 item.
- 12. Sawyer, Lyddell, 1856-1895. 1 item.
- 13. Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877. 5 items.
- 14. Unidentified photograph. 1 item.