Selected highlights from some of the photograph collections in the National Library of Scotland's rare books collections.
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
Mrs Elizabeth (Johnstone) Hall.
Salted-paper print from a calotype negative, around 1843.
Maull and Polyblank
George Cruikshank.
Albumen print, 1857.
From 'Photographic portraits of living celebrities' (London, 1856-1859).
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Thomas Annan
The Outer Court, University of Glasgow.
Carbon print, 1870.
From 'Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow' (Glasgow, 1871).
Archibald Burns
The Horse Wynd, Edinburgh.
Salted-paper print from wet-collodion negative, 1871.
James Nasmyth and James Carpenter
'Hand and Apple'.
Woodburytype, around 1873.
From 'The Moon: Considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite' (London, 1874).
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Peter Henry Emerson
'Gathering Water-Lilies'.
Platinum print, 1886.
From: 'Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads' (London, 1889).
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