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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

Daily Herald Photograph: Whaling

1938-07-09

Train driver, Jack Mills, with his grandchild, Stephen

1963-08-11

Eileen Dunne

1940

Watch-type Locket with Daguerreotype

Daily Herald Photograph: British Union of Fascists join Tithe War

1933-11-30

Demonstration against the Italo-Abyssinian war in Trafalgar Square, London

1935-08-25

Girl eating breakfast

circa 1935

Shirley Levitt

circa 1950s

Woman in a patchwork skirt

circa 1955

Crowd gives Hitler salute at the Nurburgring

1934

A photographic print of Railways, Stations, General (not crowd scenes)

Alexander Quennell

1973

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

The first orangutan to be born at London Zoo

1961

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

1843-1853

Stages of Vivex colour photography

1930s

Photograph of front page of newspaper Prava about Moon landing

1969-07-24

A photographic print of Industry, Crane Making

Photograph showing a Tasmanian wolf (thylacine)

1949-05-18

Julia Margaret Cameron and her daughter

1845-02-10

Launch Of HMS 'Albion' At Blackwall

1898-06-21

A gypsy woman cooking a hedgehog

1933

Photo-collage (joiner) by David Hockney of National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, West Yorkshire, assembled July 1985

Photo-collage by David Hockney

1984-1985

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

Book of police photographs with personal and criminal records of prisoners

1900-1911

Tattletale Santa

1968-12-11

British soldier sets fire to hut formerly occupied by members of Malaysian Communist party

2 September 1948

Jeremy Leigh, son of Roberta Leigh

circa 1950s

A rich nobleman gives his palace for Red Cross Work

1938-05-28

Modern Vivex colour print made from negatives of Clerk Maxwell

circa 1930s (original 1861)

Father Xmas at Selfridge's after a Day's Work

1964-12-18

Daily Herald contact print showing a woman being rescued from bomb damage rubble

1944-06-28

Betty Loakes wins 800 metres heat

22 August 1958

His painful duty. 'This hurts me more than it hurts you' Mr Jiggs

1952

Roberta Leigh and Lenny Lepolf in Miami

1957

Blackpool. Whit Monday at Blackpool when a strong breeze rather marred the otherwise perfect summer's day

1952

Daily Herald contact print showing a priest helping to clear bomb damage

1944-06-28

In the Lost Children Van. Daily Herald contact strip photographed by Terry Fincher in Blackpool

1958

Santa Claus learns all the answers

1956-12-18

Photograph of a projectionist at work

1930s

Father Christmas arrives the modern way

unknown

Scenes at the Pleasure Beach

1958

Photograph of a projectionist at work

28 December 1939

Salt print of a Cuneiform clay tablet

1854

Photograph showing 'A new British projector'

31 May 1932

Sunset on Manus Bul, Kashmir

circa 1865

Christmas in a Sunderland flying boat

1940-12-23