V&A Museum - Royal Photographic Society

Lucia (sitter Mary Hillier), photo Julia Margaret Cameron. England, mid-19th century

Photograph by Antoine Claudet, Portrait of Michael Faraday, gold toned daguerreotype, 1848.

Photograph by Francis James Mortimer, 'Alvin Langdon Coburn at the Opening of His One-Man Exhibition at the Royal Photographic Society, London', 1906

Folding camera, A.E Staley and Co, used by Herbert George Ponting on 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, ca. 1910.

X-Ray photograph of a foot in a shoe, photo Ernest Payne. Late 19th century

Photograph by Oscar Gustav Rejlander, 'The Head of John the Baptist on a Charger', albumen print, 1857

X-ray Negative of the Human Hand, photo Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton. 1896

Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 'Prayer' (sitter Florence Anson), carbon print, 1872

Kiss of Peace, photo Julia Margaret Cameron. Isle of Wight, England, 1869

Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 'Alfred Tennyson' ('The Dirty Monk'), albumen print, May 1865

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Carbon print

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London The reverse of a framed heliograph on pewter by Joseph Nicephore...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Framed heliograph on pewter by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, taken fr...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Gum platinum print. Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Petzval type lens made by Jamin of Paris, thought to have belong...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonAutochrome by Helen Messinger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome by Helen Messinger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch. The Panama Pa...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

Photograph by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941). Sutcliffe is best known for his naturalistic and spontaneous style of photography, especially his po...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome. Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by John Cimon Warburg (1867 -1931). Warburg was able t...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879).

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879).

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by John Cimon Warburg (1867 -1931). Warburg was able...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph titled 'Village News', of villagers chatting whilst going about their daily business, taken by Colonel Joseph Gal...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph of a man talking to a young boy, taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in about 1890. On a bright summer da...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph of a farm worker mending a plough, taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in about 1890. The man fixes the eq...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph of a miner at the top of a mineshaft, taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in about 1890. The man stands a...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph titled 'Jack of All Trades', taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in 1891. This photograph of an old handym...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in about 1889, of a man and woman standing talking at the rear of a ho...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph of ploughing taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906), in about 1890. This three horse team is pulling a ploug...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph titled 'Spinning - A Highland Doorway', of an elderly woman sitting to thread her spinning wheel, taken by Colone...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph of two men collecting fallen branches from underneath trees, taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in about...