Wooden box of glass plate negatives in original Negasys wallets
Category
Photographs
Date
1910 - 1916
Materials
Glass, Wood, Brass, Paper
Measurements
174 x 191 x 148 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522898
Summary
Wooden box containing 41 gelatine silver glass plate negatives stored in original Negasys numbered buff paper wallets. Wallets are pre-printed with fields to record details of the enclosed plate and have numbers on the top tab from 1-50 plus two additional wallets numbered 85 and 86 (numbers 42-50 inclusive and 85 & 86 are empty) and many have been hand labelled with date/subject, exposure details etc. Part of the Christie Miller Collection.
Provenance
Donated to the Fox Talbot Museum in 1976 by (the daughter of the photographer) Jane Wakefield Christie-Miller (1922-2017) of Swyncombe House, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6EA