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Photograph (Gelatine Glass Negative) of A. C. Hyde Parker, Taken by Himself on an Early Gelatine Dry Plate, in Envelope, 1958

Inventory Number 12965


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.12965

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by A. C. Hyde Parker in 1963.
Physical material
Glass
Inventory No
12965
Accession Number
1963-178

Description

Gelatine Glass Negative of a photograph of A.C. Hyde Parker. Image is on an early gelatine dry plate, manufactured by Pollard Graham & Co. Derby. Image is a self-portrait of Hyde Parker taken in 1958, at the age of 78. The sitter is wearing a suit and sat in a rocking chair in front of foliage. The plate is stored in a paper envelope addressed to Hyde Parker.