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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

Cystoseira granulata

1843-1853

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

1843-1853

London street scene, 1930s

1930s
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
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

Professor Einstein with Commander Locker-Lampson

1933-09-11

Slum housing

1930s

Crowd gives Hitler salute at the Nurburgring

1934

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Train driver, Jack Mills, with his grandchild, Stephen

1963-08-11

Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

Photograph of Hedy Lamarr and her mother Gertrude Kiesler

unknown

Two sacks of money recovered from the Great Train Robbery

1963-08-11

A gypsy woman cooking a hedgehog

1933

Photograph of people reading a newspaper aboard the "Empire Windrush"

22 June 1948

Anti-war demonstration

1936-05-03

Broad Close, No 167 High Street

1868

Fifty-nine early prints from glass negative of 40 ft. telescope

1839

Demonstrators at Women’s Liberation Movement March in London

1971-03-06

Woman with a spinning wheel

1899

Photograph of actress Hedy Lamarr and husband John Loder

1953

Amy Johnson in her plane 'Jason'

circa 1930

Jewish demonstration against government policy in Palestine

1946-07-07

Memorial brooch with photograph

c. 1880

Diableries Stereocard: Les Vendanges en Enfer

1868

Book of police photographs with personal and criminal records of prisoners

1900-1911

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

1933

Eileen Dunne

1940

Imperial State Crown

1937

Julian, Jane, and Victoria Ormsby-Gore

1960s

The Return After Three Days

1965

Beach photographers

circa 1890

Album of camera lucida drawings by Fox Talbot

Julia Margaret Cameron and her daughter

1845-02-10
Cibachrome high speed photograph entitled 'Bullet Through An Apple', by Harold Edgerton. A .30 caliber bullet shown as it leaves an apple. The velocity of the bullet is 2800 feet per second. The apple explodes after impact. Exposure less than a microsecond.

Bullet Through An Apple

A colour transparency of 'Carr's Bargain Shop', Clapham Common, Photographed by Andrew Lawson, about 1977.

Carr's Bargain Shop

circa 1977

Arriving in style for a dog show

1934-04-05

Two figures walk by cleared blitz site, Liverpool

1949-11-21

The set of 'Things To Come'

1935-09-23

Man holding woman's hand

circa 1933

Free bread

1935-12-25

Theatre live television broadcast

1939

Traffic Duty at Ludgate Circus

circa 1914

Child fishing on the pier

1937-07-29

British Industries Fair

1933-02-16

Woman in a patchwork skirt

circa 1955

Dog on the bonnet of a car

circa 1934

Close, No 80 High Street

1868