c1845. Salt paper photograph, 14.4 x 19.6cm. Old stain to upper right corner. Illustrated in Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1981, p183, with the caption “The reporters’ table - Skene standing, W. Robertson, J.R. Fyfe, John Johnstone, John MacDonald and Rev Andrew Cameron.”. More

c1847. Daguerreotype, “Royal Polytechnic” printed studio label remnant with torn brown paper slip annotated in ink affixed to frame verso, 7.6 x 6.4cm (image), 16.1 x 15cm (frame). Slight oxidation to lower portion of image including faint spots. Original frame. Label remnant with missing text reads “[R]oyal [P]olytec[hnic]. 309, R [Regent Street].”..... More

c1850s. Albumen paper photograph, numbered “34” in pencil in “R. Macpherson, Rome” blind stamp on backing below image, 24.4 x 37.4cm. Slight fading and foxing to image, laid down on original backing. Held in Canadian Centre for Architecture. More

c1850s. Daguerreotype, sixth-plate size, in original hinged case, photographer’s line stamped in case, 7.1 x 5.8cm (image), 9.3 x 8.1cm (case). Minor oxidation to right edge of image, some wear to original case. Photographer’s line reads “Anson, Broadway [New York].”. More

c1850s. Daguerreotype with hand-colouring, sixth-plate size, in original hinged case, 5.2 x 6.5cm (image), 9.4 x 8.1cm (case). Slight oxidation to edges of image, minor wear to case. More

c1850s. Pair of daguerreotypes, one with hand-colouring, ninth-plate size, in original hinged cases, one with photographer’s line stamped in case; annotated in ink on slips affixed inside each case, 5.6 x 4.2cm (approx. each image), 7.6 x 6.3cm (each case). Oxidation to edges of each image, slight wear to both..... More

1851. Salt paper print, signed, captioned “Strasbourg” and dated in negative lower left, 32.5 x 23.3cm. Slight soiling. More

c1851. Salt paper print, annotated “176” in pencil and photographer’s stamped signature on backing below image, 27.5 x 21cm. Slight soiling to lower edge. In 1851 the Commission des Monuments Historiques chose Baldus and four others to form the Mission Héliographique to document the architectural heritage of France. This photograph..... More

c1855. Salt paper photograph, signed with address “113 [rue St] Lazare” in ink on image lower left, 16 x 10.4cm. Slight foxing. Original frame. Émile Augier (1820-1889) was a popular French dramatist who wrote comedies about the virtues of middle-class life. A similar portrait by Nadar of Emile Augier is..... More

1859. Composite albumen paper photograph, consisting of 79 Personages and a letterpress key, each portrait with a reference number in negative, photographer’s blind stamp and publisher’s line with date on original backing below image, 43.3 x 33.4cm (oval). Foxing overall, minor surface loss to image lower left, laid down on..... More

1859. Albumen paper photograph, titled, dated “Aug. 26, 1859”, annotated and signed “Rich. L.B. Tooker” in ink on backing verso, 13.1 x 17.9cm. Silvering, laid down on original backing. Annotation reads “The buildings facing the spectator are the Lee Mills and Penville Place.” “The Lee Mills were water-powered flour and..... More

c1860. Albumen paper photograph, 19 x 22.5cm. Repaired tears to edges of image, some creases. Possibly depicts the sacred Parijaat tree in the village of Kintoor, India. Baobab trees are long-lived and store water in the trunk (up to 100,000 litres) to endure drought. All baobabs live in seasonally arid..... More

c1850s-1860s. Pair of albumen paper photographs, each titled in ink on backing below image, 9.9 x 9.8cm. Slight soiling and creases, each laid down on original backing. Rare early single panels from a stereo view. More