Photograph Album of Polarisation and Other Experimental Photographs (Gelatine Prints), by W. B. Croft, ?Late 19th Century

Oblong album bound in cloth, with 'Oxford' on the front. Contains 7 photographs (gelatine prints) documenting experiments in optics, including polarisation and diffraction. They are identified by manuscript inscriptions written directly on to the photographs. Followed by 5 poor gelatine prints of imaginative portraits of alchemists, copied from a printed book. The photographer/experimenter, William B. Croft, was an Oxford physics graduate (graduated 1875) who went as a science teacher to the public school Winchester College.

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