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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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
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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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.
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Processed by K. Lopaty, August 1976, revisions by K. Siegel, February 1978.
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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
box 1, folder 1
Daguerreotypes.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
- 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.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
- 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.
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
- 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
Albumen prints.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
- 21. Albumen: full print view of exterior of mosque.
- 22-23. Albumens: portraits mounted on oval cardboard backings.
box 1, folder 5
Cartes-de-visites.
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
- 24-20. Various portraits: ordinary, most have document stamp on verso.
- 31. Portrait in paper frame.
box 1, folder 6
Gelatin cabinets and other portraits.
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
- 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
Miscellaneous photographs.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
- 43. Kodak no.1 photograph.
- 44. Gelatin 8 × 10 in. mount: view of house.
- 45. Cyanotype 8 × 10 in.: two children in garden.
A Group of Prints Made from Copy Negatives of Holdings in the Historical Collection of the Royal Photographic Society, London
box 2, folder 1
Adamson and Hill.
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
box 2, folder 2
Annan, James Craig, 1864-1946.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2, folder 3
Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of, 1830-1890.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2, folder 4
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966.
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 2, folder 5
Davison, George, 1856-1930.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2, folder 6
Day, F. Holland, 1864-1933.
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 2, folder 7
Demachy, Robert, d. 1937.
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 2, folder 8
Evans, Frederick Henry, 1852-1943.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2, folder 9
Fenton, Roger, 1819-1896.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2, folder 10
Molard, Humbert de, d. 1874.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2, folder 11
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 2, folder 12
Polak, Richard, b. 1870.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2, folder 13
Rejlander, Oscar Gustave, 1813-1875.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2, folder 14
Robinson, Henry Peach, 1830-1901.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2, folder 15
Sutcliffe, Frank Meadow, 1853-1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2, folder 16
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 2, folder 17
Thomson, John, 1837-1921.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2, folder 18
White, Clarence Hudson, 1871-1925.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2, folder 19
Wilkinson, Benjamin Gay, 1857-1927.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
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.