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1. Add MS 88942/1/169

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Add MS 88942/1/169
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Defence of a Magistrate, falsely accused')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a draft of a translation of a tablet in the British Museum. It also includes two pages of notes at the back of the notebook on the first public announcement of Talbot's photographic experiments (by Michael Faraday, at the Royal Institution, 1839). Notebook started: 3 May 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 notebook (6 folios, 12 pages of text)

2. Add MS 88942/1/272

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Add MS 88942/1/272
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Memoranda')
Scope & Content:
This notebook (entitled 'Memoranda') comprises, in the main, notes on three topics: horticultural matters (such as plants ordered, and 'Garden Memoranda'); notes on experiments concerning 'galvanism'; and various notes concerning photography. It also includes occasional notes interspersed on oth...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
1838-1840
Extent:
1 notebook (36 folios, 71 pages of text)

3. Add MS 88942/1/277

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Add MS 88942/1/277
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Memoranda')
Scope & Content:
The notebook includes miscellaneous notes from 1840-1844. Many of them are scientific notes on photography, often headed 'Phot.c Miscellanies' and include small drawings. Other notes on photography include 'Requisites for Photography in travelling', a list of photographic albums, notes on 'adjus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1844
Extent:
1 notebook (68 folios, 73 pages of text)

4. Add MS 88942/1/284

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Add MS 88942/1/284
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Nicholls expenses')
Scope & Content:
A slim account book containing a record of expenses: 'Nicholls expenses from Sept 25th to Nov 2nd'. On the final page is recorded: 'Setled [sic] November 13th / 44. N. Hennerman'. This notebook probably relates to Talbot's photographic establishment at Reading. See also Add MS 88942/1/306 (in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 notebook (8 folios, 6 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/286

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Add MS 88942/1/286
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Talbotype Establishment Reading')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains accounts of various items and journeys from 21 January 1846 to 8 February 1847. ‘Talbotype Establishment Reading’ is written on the inside front cover. Includes reference to Nicolaas Henneman. See also the related notebook Add MS 88942/1/287.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846-1847
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 22 pages of text)

6. Add MS 88942/1/287

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Add MS 88942/1/287
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Reading Talbotype Establishment')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains accounts of various items and journeys from 20 April 1846 to December 1846. See also the related notebook Add MS 88942/1/286 (same hand), which also includes reference to Nicolaas Henneman.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 23 pages of text)

7. Add MS 88942/1/292

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Add MS 88942/1/292
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Memorandum of Expenses incurred for account of H F Talbot Esq. of 2 Mansfield Street Portland Place')
Scope & Content:
The account book lists expenses from 29 March - 27 May 1847, mainly incurred in London and Reading. On the front cover is written '1847'. See also Add MS 88942/1/288 and Add MS 88942/1/291.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 8 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/293

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Add MS 88942/1/293
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Memorandum of Expenses incurred for account of H F Talbot Esq. of 2 Mansfield Street Portland Place')
Scope & Content:
Slim account book listing expenditure from March-15 May 1847, mainly incurred in London and Reading. On the front cover, '1847' is written. With an additional loose sheet recording expenses regarding Tobias S. Telfer, and a loose sheet of blotting paper. See also Add MS 88942/1/288 and Add MS 889...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 7 pages of text), 2 loose sheets

9. Add MS 88942/1/301

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Add MS 88942/1/301
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (regarding Letters Patent)
Scope & Content:
A notebook containing copy texts relating to Talbot's Letters Patent for the calotype process: 'Improvements in obtaining Pictures or representations of objects' (8 February 1841). Talbot's Patent had included the proviso that 'the said Mr Henry Fox Talbot shall cause a particular description of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1841-1851]
Extent:

1 notebook (106 folios, 79 pages of text)

10. EAP054/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP054/1
Title:
Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio
Scope & Content:
Jacques Toussele commissioned portraits of people from Mbouda, West Cameroon. Many of the photos are of individuals for Identity Cards and other administrative pruposes but also recreataional, family grops etc. The archives represent a record of life in this area in the 1970s and 1980s. The ai...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, and Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
46272 TIFF format files

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