William Henry Fox Talbot collection
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Not requestable
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three printed documents, two dated 1841 and one 1854, relating to the Calotype (or Talbotype) process invented by William H.F. Talbot (1800-1877), photographer, inventor, and literary historian.
Dates
- 1841 - 1854
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
These documents are in the public domain. To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Biographical Note
William Henry Fox Talbot was a British inventor and a pioneer of photography. He was the inventor of calotype process, the precursor to most photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium. His work in the 1840s on photo-mechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Talbot is also remembered as the holder of a patent which, some say, affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain.
Extent
.25 Linear Feet
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
This collection consists of three printed documents, two dated 1841 and one 1854, relating to the Calotype (or Talbotype) process invented by William H.F. Talbot (1800-1877), photographer, inventor, and literary historian.
Custodial History
The two documents by Talbot from 1841 in this collection were gifts to the Center from Frank and Patty Kolodny in 1976; the affidavits from 1854 were purchased in the Swann Galleries Sale No. 1218 in 1981.
- Title
- The William Henry Fox Talbot Collection, 1841, 1854AG13
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Processed by James Uhrig
- Date
- 2010
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding guide is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
