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Photographs from the Royal Photographic Society Collection

Various, 1826–1910

National Science and Media Museum, Bradford

The collection was formed as a record of the Society's history and a history of photography. It covers the period from pre-photography, including works by William H F Talbot, Roger Fenton, Henry Peach Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameron and British and American secession photography. In addition to approximately 270,000 photographs supported by the Art Fund grant the collection also includes photographic equipment, negatives, books etc.

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Title of artwork, date

Photographs from the Royal Photographic Society Collection, 1826–1910

Date supported

2003

Medium and material

Positives & negatives & heliographs & salt prints & glass negatives

Grant

342000

Total cost

4500000

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