- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Transferred from the University Observatory, Oxford.
- Primary inscriptions
- Scratched on glass: 'Aug 22/87' [another date Nov 15 deleted] and '2'.
- Physical material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- Height: 108mm Width: 108mm Depth: 2mm Weight: 49g
- Inventory No
- 68946
Description
Gelatine glass negative, early type, thick glass, Astronomical photograph of an unidentified area of stars, taken at the University Observatory, Oxford. Negative is a companion of a second negative in the Museum's collection (Inv. 99743). An early example of a dry plate, dated to August 22nd 1887..
Provisionally, and if the August 22 date is correct, this is the earliest gelatine dry plate negative identified in the collection.
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