Call Number:

PH-00278

Collection Name:

John Benjamin Dancer Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

315 items

Span Dates:

mid- to late-1800s

Description:

John Benjamin Dancer (British, 1812-1887) was an optician and photographic inventor who pioneered microphotography and stereography. The collection is comprised of experimental photographs of subjects including family, landscape, and others. The images were photographed by Dancer and various others. The collection contains 315 photographs, including 60 microphotographs, 57 daguerreotypes, 65 card stereographs, 1 daguerreotype stereoscopic photograph, 46 glass stereographs, 27 ambrotypes, 12 glass negatives, 3 glass positives, 1 collodion print on opal glass, 7 calotypes, 1 woodburytype, 3 carbon prints, 3 platinum prints, 4 silver prints, 7 albumen cartes-de-visite, 2 albumen cabinet cards, 4 albumen prints, 4 photogravures, 7 silhouettes, 1 painted albumen print, ephemera, equipment, and papers. Additional Dancer material is located in the Gernsheim collection.

Accession No(s):

983:0037:0001- ?; 983:0084:0001-0057; 983:0085:0001-0028

Location(s):

Dancer, J.B., Family & Friends Box (opal glass, calotype, albumen, woodburytype, carbon, gelatin silver, platinum, photogravure)
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Dancer, J.B., Printed Materials
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Discrete Collection Box 1 (983:0037:0001)
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Special permission required 4 osb, J.B. Dancer Daguerreotypes (Boxes 1-4)
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Special permission required3 osb, J.B. Dancer Ambrotypes (Boxes 1-3)
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Special permission required 5 osb, J.B. Dancer Jewelry and Novelties Boxes (1-5)
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Special permission required 2 osb, J.B. Dancer Glass Stereos (Boxes 1-2)
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1 Box Card stereographs, glass stereographs
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See Also:

John Benjamin Dancer Collection: Related manuscript materials, from which this collection was transferred, are located in the John Benjamin Dancer Collection (MS-01052).