Call Number:

PH-00225

Collection Name:

History of Science Photography Collection

No. of Items:

140 items

Span Dates:

circa 1830-1967

Description:

The History of Science collection is comprised photographs and photoengravings of important scientists at work and at social functions, including group portraits of science conferences and societies. Partial item-level descriptions follow.

958:0056:0001-0110 -- Photographs of Perrin, Curie, Richardson, Crobino, Milikan, Beanland, Edison, and Steinmetz (among others); 1st International Conference on Nuclear Physics, Anglo Bavarian Society Dinner;
958:0070:0001 -- Photograph of Sir Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959);
958:0070:0003 -- Framed photograph of Professor Adolf Meyer-Albich, Hamburg, April 20, 1967;
958:0070:0004 -- Diagram of Caroline Herschel's telescope (affixed to verso: a typescript of an 1843 letter from Sir J.F.W. Herschel to Adm. W.H. Smyth);
958:0070:0005 -- Framed photograph by Sir John F. W. Herschel taken in 1839 and printed in 1890 of "The Forty-Foot Telescope at Slough";
958:0070:0006 -- Framed photograph of Cavendish Laboratory research students, May 1902;
958:0070:0007 -- Framed photograph of Cavendish Laboratory research students, May 1901;
958:0070:0008 -- Framed photograph of Cavendish Laboratory research students, May 1905.
993:0011:0001-0002 -- Two photographs of sketches, which were made in circa 1954, of Albert Einstein;
992:0011:0003 -- Photoengraving of Gauß;
993:0011:0004 -- Photoengraving with script in Latin titled “Frater Jacobus de Beaulter”;
993:0011:0005 -- Photograph of Marie Curie;
993:0011:0006 -- Photograph of Pierre Curie;
993:0011:0007-0008 -- Photographs of Marie Curie;
993:0011:0009 --Photograph of Harvey Cushing;
993:0011:0010 -- Charles Darwin.;
993:0044:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.24) -- Photogravure of Joseph Black;
993:0047:0001-0003 (formerly Art Collection accession numbers 73.280.219A-219C) -- Three photographs of a 1944 painting of Sir William Osler, English-Canadian physician and medical educator;
993:0048:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.254) -- Photograph by unidentified photographer, likely 1895 or 1896, printed 1945. Verso reads: “Roentgen [i.e., Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen] observes the luminescent effect upon the barium-platino-cyanide screen. Victor news, Sept. 1945”;
993:0049:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.220) -- Richard Owen (short biography on verso);
993:0050:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.23) -- Photograph of an 1885 sketch of Louis Pasteur;
993:0051:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.217) --Labeled “Oersted” on verso, referring to Hans Christian Oersted, a Danish natural philosopher who discovered electromagnetic induction;
997:0005:0001 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.271) -- J.J. Thomson;
997:0005:0002 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.270) -- J.J. Thomson;
997:0005:0003 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.294) -- Photogravure of Laennec;
997:0005:0004 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.284) -- J. W. Williams;
997:0005:0005 (formerly Art Collection accession number 73.280.189) -- Photogravure of Kant.

Accession No(s):

958:0056:0001-0110; 958:0070:0001, 0003-0008; 993:0011:0001-0010; 993:0044:0001; 993:0047:0001-0003; 993:0048:0001; 993:0049:0001; 993:0050:0001; 993:0051:0001; 997:0005:0001-0005

Location(s):

History of Science Box 3 (958:0070:0005)
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History of Science Box 1 (958:0056:0001-0105; 958:0070:0001-0004; 993:0011:0001-0002, 0004, 0007-0010; 993:0047:0001-0003; 993:0048:0001; 993:0049:0001; 993:0051:0001; 997:0005:0001, 0006-0007, 0009-0013)
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History of Science Box 2 (958:0056:0106-0110; 958:0070:0006-0008; 993:0011:0003, 0005-0006; 993:0044:0001; 993:0050:0001; 997:0005:0002-0005)
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See Also:

John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel Photography Collection: Photographs by Herschel are located in the John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel Photography Collection (PH-00075).

History of Science Collection: Related manuscript materials are located in the History of Science Collection (MS-01959).

History of Science Art Collection: Related artworks, from which 23 items of this collection were transferred, are located in the History of Science Art Collection (AR-00124).

Herschel Family Papers: Related manuscript materials by and about Herschel are located in the Herschel Family Papers (MS-01931).