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Albumen prints

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Images from the collections

Images of Albumen prints

715 images from works
  • Africa: a group of African people standing on a kraal hut. Albumen print.
  • South Africa: Africans in front of a traditional kraal hut. Albumen print.
  • Kashmir: a clearing in a wood with a river beyond. Photograph by Samuel Bourne.
  • Canton, China: a panoramic view of the city. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • The bones of a foot, possibly with leprosy, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • A bullet in the base of a skull, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • A standing child, naked, viewed from the front; his shoulders are uneven. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • The bones in the joint of an elbow, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • A camp of wigwams, during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • Yokohama, Japan: the British Consulate buildings and grounds. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

Works from the collections

869 works

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    Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.

    Manelli, V. | Reference: 36433i
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    Two women, surrounded by villagers, with their heads bowed to the ground in Karanja, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

    Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897. | Date: [1897?] | Reference: 37571i
    Part of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.
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    Four men wearing aprons and uniforms standing by a trolley with half-dissected cadavers on it. Photograph.

    | Reference: 34341i
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    Leicester's Hospital, Warwick. Photograph by F. Frith.

    Frith, Francis. | Reference: 38497i
    Part of: Frith's series
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    The chairman of the Bombay Plague Committee interviewing justices of the peace. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

    Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897. | Date: [1897?] | Reference: 1994i
    Part of: The Bombay plague epidemic of 1896-1897: work of the Bombay Plague Committee. Photographs attributed to Capt. C. Moss, 1897.

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