Photograph of Lacock Abbey
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1840s
name: label: maker
content: Talbot, William Henry Fox
notes: label: Description
content: William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 to 1877) was the inventor of the negative to positive process of photography. He lived and worked at his ancestral home at Lacock Abbey in England. A prominent scientist, he made a number of contributions to a variety of fields, including photography in the 1830s and 1840s. He is also known as the father of photogravure, and spent many years perfecting photomechanical reproduction.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.001909
label: accession number
content: 56462
label: catalog number
content: 1909
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calotype
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)