EditorialLantern Slide - Sherbrooke Forest, Victoria, Date Unknown, Black and white image of Sherbrooke Forest with its double exposure demonstrating one of the many issues early photographers had to contend with, photographed by A.G. Campbell, son of A.J. Camp...
EditorialPhotograph - Orion Nebula, Taken with the Great Melbourne Telescope, Victoria, 26 Feb 1883, Photograph of Orion Nebula, taken by Joseph Turner with the Great Melbourne Telescope on 26 Feb 1883, with an exposure of 4 minutes. In 1882 astronomers in Brit...
EditorialGlass Negative, Building Exterior, George Street, Sydney, circa 1930s, Black and white full plate glass negative of the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd building on George Street St, Sydney, New South Wales, circa 1930s. This oblique street view shows neighbo...
EditorialGreek Art. Ceramic krater from Dipylon necropolis belonging to Geometric Recent style and showing the prothesis or exposure of the dead upon the coffin placed on a cart and the parade of mounted warriors in chariots. Dated in 750 B.C. National Archaeol...
Editorial[Diogenes without Sun, 17' Exposure]. Date/Period: October 6, 1840. Print. Salt, from a photogenic drawing negative. Height: 119 mm (4.68 in); Width: 110 mm (4.33 in).
Editorial[Union Soldier Holding Rifle, with Photographer's Posing Stand], 1861?65, Ambrotype, Visible: 8.7 x 6.5 cm (3 7/16 x 2 9/16 in.), oval, Photographs, Unknown (American), The purpose of the odd pronged apparatus seen in this portrait of a typical Union r...
EditorialHead of a female figure, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, H. 1 5/8 x W. 1 7/16 in. (4.2 x 3.6 cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, Carved in the round, this female head was found in the Burnt Palace at Nim...
Editorial[The Great Wave, S?te], 1857, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 33.7 x 41.4 cm (13 1/4 x 16 5/16 in.), Photographs, Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820?1884), The dramatic effects of sunlight, clouds, and water in Le Gray's seascapes stunned his cont...
EditorialA character, Horatio, gazing at what he expected to be a beautiful woman, but turned into a skeleton. The Midnight Groan; or, the Spectre of the Chapel: involving an exposure of the horrible secrets of the nocturnal assembly. A Gothic romance. London, ...