Photography:
The World Through the Lens
Supports Research In• Nineteenth-century Romantic and Victorianstudies, anthropology, photography,criminology, law, health, medicine, militaryhistory, sociology, technology, science, art,architecture, journalism and more.

Program Overview
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious scholarly digitization andpublication program ever undertaken, providing full-text, fully searchable content from a wide
range of primary sources. These materials support a wide range of academic disciplines and areasof study, providing never-before-possible research opportunities for one of the most studied
historical periods.

Archive Overview
The invention of photography initiated a mania for documenting people and their surroundings.
Numerous explorers, artists, scientists and ordinary people set out to document in photographs
local and distant lands. The result was a vast collection of images of remote places, thelandscapes of the American West, scientific records of archaeological digs and anthropologicalstudies, architectural records, police photography, images of war, and images of the urban andrural poor — to name a few.
Photography as record — Visual documentation of our heritage, art works, architecture,
exploration and topographic record, significant events and more
Photography as evidence, identification — Press photography, photographs used in science,criminology, personal identification
Photography as reproduction — Illustrations in newspapers, books, magazines
Photography as an art form — Early photographers were painters
Photography as science — Early photographers were opticians or scientists. Photographs wereused in medicine to document medical procedures, diseases and deformities as well as foranthropology and learned society documentation of peoples and places across Africa, Asia andthe Near East
Key collections include:■ The Stationers’ Company copyright registers and copyright forms for photographers(The National Archives, UK)■ Extensive runs of key journals, including Photographic News, 1859-1908, and theBritish Journal of Photography, 1854-1918■ Rare journals and early printed manuals, treatises, and catalogs of photography sourced
from 28 institutions (including the George Eastman House Library, Columbia University,
New York Public Library, the Science Museum, London)— Sourced from The National
Archives, Kew■ Includes images from the major collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum; NationalPortrait Gallery, Wellcome Library; Science Museum, London; The Royal Collection, Windsor;
National Diet Library; and Nagasaki University, Japan

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The World Through the Lens
Other Program Archives• Asia and the West: Diplomacy andCultural Exchange• British Politics and Society• British Theatre, Music, and Literature:
High and Popular Culture

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography: The World Through the Lens isavailable on Gale’s cutting-edge research platform. It was developed using our flexible Agile
approach, incorporating user testing and feedback throughout development to ensure that
we provide the features that scholars require for research in the digital age. This collection
includes journals, monographs, photograph albums, photographically-illustrated books,photographs, and more.
Tools and features include:• European Literature, 1790-1840:
The Corvey Collection■ Textual Analysis Tools — Identify and visualize patterns, trends and relationships to• Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925■ Subject Indexing — Making content accessible and exposing key data elements• Women: Transnational Networks• Europe and Africa: Commerce,Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest

explore content in new ways. Underlying data and text is exportable for further analysis■ Zotero Compatible — Optimized for Zotero for collecting, citing and organizing sources■ User-Generated Tags and Annotations — Allows users to create/add their own metadata■ User Accounts — Users can save documents and edit their tags and annotations■ Image Viewer — Zoom, highlight, rotate, reverse (negative image), change the brightness
or contrast, and view pages in full-screen mode
■ Download — The OCR text of printed works

Now you can find Nineteenth Century Collections
Online on Artemis, Gale’s ground breaking researchplatform. Artemis provides an unprecedented andseamless research experience that helps researchers
find a starting point, search across a wide arrayof materials and points in time, and discover new
ways to analyze information! Over the comingyears this environment will expand to include
the majority of Gale Digital Collections and Gale
Literature Collections, uniting these two into one
comprehensive research experience.

— Sourced from © The Wellcome Library© 2013. Gale, Cengage Learning,Advisory Board
Photography: The World Through the Lens has been created with the expert guidance ofElizabeth Edwards, Research Professor in Photographic History and Director of the
Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University as well as a global advisoryboard, which ensures the program fulfills the needs of students, professors and researchersand helps shape the program’s collecting and digitizing policies. For a list of members, visit
http://gdc.gale.com/nineteenth-century-collections-online/advisory-board/.

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