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National Geographic: The Photographs (National Geographic Collectors)

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Aircraft engines and components in development 1935-1952, from the papers of Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle. Photographs, sketches and accompanying maps from various theatres of operations including some from the Western Front in WO 153/1268-1275 and others of the Salonika Campaign in Greece in WO 153/1345 and WO 153/1346.

Staff sorting and indexing at the Central National Registration Office in England in 1940 and at the census office in Acton, London in 1931.

In 1891, Gabriel Lippmann introduced a process for making natural-color photographs based on the optical phenomenon of the interference of light waves. For instance, a photocopy or xerography machine forms permanent images but uses the transfer of static electrical charges rather than photographic medium, hence the term electrophotography. The discovery of the camera obscura ("dark chamber" in Latin) that provides an image of a scene dates back to ancient China. Photographs taken during the 1930s and 1940s, including pictures of London Metropolitan Police buildings, other buildings and sites around London,Windsor Castle and the Staffordshire potteries.

The first flexible photographic roll film was marketed by George Eastman, founder of Kodak in 1885, but this original "film" was actually a coating on a paper base. War Crimes Case Files from the Judge Advocate General’s Office consisting of daily transcripts of proceedings, prosecution and defence summations. Passport photographsin a collection illustrating the many different types of passports issued in Britain and in British colonies between 1802-1961. It is a view of a busy street, but because the exposure lasted for several minutes the moving traffic left no trace.The series listed below contain the greatest concentrations of railway photographs but there are many more scattered throughout the wider collection. In that same year, American photographer Robert Cornelius is credited with taking the earliest surviving photographic self-portrait. These works of art were almost simultaneous with the invention of photography by various important artists who characterized Hippolyte Bayard, Thomas Wedgwood, William Henry Fox Talbot in their early stages, and later Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy in the twenties and by the painter in the thirties Edmund Kesting and Christian Schad by draping objects directly onto appropriately sensitized photo paper and using a light source without a camera.

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