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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

Eileen Dunne

1940
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

Alfred Hitchcock at the doors of Coronation Street's Rovers Return

1964-06-16

Train driver, Jack Mills, with his grandchild, Stephen

1963-08-11

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Photograph of two men

c1970

A gypsy woman cooking a hedgehog

1933

Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

Shirley Levitt

circa 1950s

Photograph showing Indian actor Sabu riding an elephant at Coventry Zoo

1937-05-05

Maria Callas

1957

Professor Einstein with Commander Locker-Lampson

1933-09-11

Collecting aluminium pots and pans to make aeroplanes

1940

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

1843-1853

Fairy Offering Flowers To Iris

1920-08

Photographer's 'Birdie'

circa 1920

Photograph of Hedy Lamarr and her mother Gertrude Kiesler

unknown

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

1933

Paul Scofield

1972

Tom Jones and his dogs

1939-03-27
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

Shrovetide Football at Ashbourne

1952-02-26

Yves Saint Laurent draws fashion designs on blackboard

1957-11-22

Johnny Cash with Guitar

1959-09-17

Clacton disturbances

1964-03-30

Under Canvas

1938-08-01

Ashbourne Shrovetide Football

1947-02-18

Arab woman teaches children to read and write, Jerusalem

1945-12-13

A photographic print of Photography, Press Photographers and Newsreel Men

Shrovetide Football at Ashbourne

1950-02-21

A sculptor at work on an angel for Liverpool Anglican Cathedral

1934-01-14

A stonemason working on a detail of the Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool

1934

Mods at a jellied eel stall near Clacton pier

1964-03-30

Laurence Olivier as Hamlet

21 September 1947

The Vatican, Rome

Collection of 14 photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, c1865-1875

1865-1875

'Hypatia'

circa 1870

Henry John Stedman Cotton

1867

Seven photographs showing phases of movement of a running or jumping man

1888-1896

View from the grandstand Autodromo di Mellaha

1935-05-12

Rear view of a Maybach

1936

The Autodromo di Mellaha stadium, Tripoli

1935-05-12

Olympic Winter Games at Oslo

1952-02-22

Today's Picture by Wire from Cortina - Olympic Torch-Bearer Falls

1956-01-27

Olympic Ski Jump

1948-02-01

Today's Picture by Wire from Igls - Bob Team's Third Run

1955-02-06

Olympic Tunnel?

1952-02-25

Cortina. Preparation for the Winter Olympics

1956-01-22