- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Joseph Delves
- Provenance
- Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society from 1990.
- Primary inscriptions
- Typed label on back.
- Object type
- Photograph
- Inventory No
- 12093
Description
Four collodion positives on glass mounted in a purpose-made, sealed wooden enclosure. The cover glass to each photograph is broken. The wooden mount or enclosure is constructed so as to seal the photographs in place and prevent access.
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