Still image produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent.
    

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Tropical Diseases, Elephantiasis of the scrotum.

Squamous cell carcinoma, mouse eye

A man putting a barrel on his shoulder. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

E. Muybridge "Animal locomotion", plate

Canine brain affected by cerebral haemorrhage

A man batting. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Make us gasp with your images / Wellcome Images.

Portrait photograph of Charles Darwin

A man digging with a shovel. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Africa: a group of African people standing on a kraal hut. Albumen print.

William Loudon Reid. Photograph by Weir.

A queen or empress administering a healing balm to a person with leprosy (?). Photograph of a wallpainting in the chapel in Eton College.

James Hunter. Photograph.

A man holding a trumpet, with flowers, celebrating Saint Cecilia's day. Coloured photographic postcard, 1931.

Adam Sedgwick. Photograph.

John Russell Hind. Photograph by Drummond Young.

Sir Thomas Watson. Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, 1873.

An man in drag as "Gertie" wearing a checked coat. Photographic postcard, 1916.

Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.

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Adam Sedgwick. Photograph.

John Russell Hind. Photograph by Drummond Young.

Sir Thomas Watson. Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, 1873.

An man in drag as "Gertie" wearing a checked coat. Photographic postcard, 1916.

Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.