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Our collection of photographs brings to light over a century of photography produced by both professionals and amateurs. Explore photography as an artistic practice as well as a valuable tool in medicine, experimental science and industry.

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Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Photograph of Hockney's Mother at Bolton Abbey

Silver gelatin print by Camera Press/L'Europeo. Printed Caption on verso reads: "U.S. Film Stars: ELIZABETH TAYLOR. Reports that scenes of Elizabeth Taylor in the nude were shot for the film 'Cleopatra' brought criticism from some quarters. This picture shows that such shots were made".

Elizabeth Taylor nude shot for "Cleopatra"

1963

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

1843-1853

Professor Einstein with Commander Locker-Lampson

1933-09-11

The Return After Three Days

1965

Crowd gives Hitler salute at the Nurburgring

1934

Daily Herald Photograph: Farm Auction

1941-10-17

The Russian Royal Family at Tsarskoe Selo

School children being evacuated from London

1938-09-28

Lady Caroline Percy

1966

Train driver, Jack Mills, with his grandchild, Stephen

1963-08-11

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Jewish demonstration against government policy in Palestine

1946-07-07

Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

Man in a Mercedes-Benz car

circa 1932

Photograph of Whitehall cleaners on protest in London, 1st February 1949

1949-02-01

Eileen Dunne

1940

Introduction Page From 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions'

1843-1853

Photograph of Hedy Lamarr and her mother Gertrude Kiesler

unknown

Photograph of actress Hedy Lamarr in the 1933 film 'Ecstasy'

1933

Quarter-plate `Cameo' camera used to take 'second phase' of Cottingley Fairies photographs, 1918-1920

1915-1920
A wire photograph, taken by an unknown photographer for United Press International, 1963. The two photographs were released by Jim Garrison of New Orleans in support of his theory that a shot was fired from a sewer during the Kennedy assassination. One photograph shows the sewer opening on Elm Street, Dallas. The second was taken from the opening as a car passed by.

Two Photographs supporting theory that a Shot came from a Sewer during Kennedy Assassination

1963

Two figures walk by cleared blitz site, Liverpool

1949-11-21

Mont Olivier

1857

Man holding woman's hand

circa 1933

Traffic Duty at Ludgate Circus

circa 1914

Mosquee du Sultan Mahmoud a Tophanna

circa 1855

Woman in a patchwork skirt

circa 1955

Piscine probatoire - Bethesda

1857

Dog on the bonnet of a car

circa 1934

Close, No 80 High Street

1868

Captain Speedy And The Little Prince Alamayou Of Abyssinia

1863-1873

Close, No 139 Saltmarket

1868

Fiacre Montparnasse

1949

Saltmarket, from Bridgegate

1868

The Begum Kotie

1858

Preparing automobile exhibition signs

circa 1933

Main Street, Gorbals, Looking South

1868

Lord Elgin

1860

A cocktail party

circa 1960

Monument d'Absalom

1857

Man falling off a motorcycle

circa 1932

Trongate, from Tron Steeple

1868

Gerhard Macher in his Dampf-Kraft-Wagen racing car

1933

Car in front of a house

circa 1932

Hanns Geier during a pit stop

1934

Luigi Fagioli driving Mercedes-Benz racing car

1934-07-15

London: Kingsway

circa 1914

Horch car in front of Modernist building

circa 1932