Recently, the Collection Care and Imaging teams from the University of Manchester Special Collections collaborated with NXCT, The National X-ray Computed Tomography centre based at The University of Manchester. For the first time, objects from the John Rylands collections were imaged using state of the art X-ray scanning facilities, in an attempt to reveal what’s hidden inside.
Seventy five years ago, the University’s ‘Baby’ computer became the first electronic computer with a read/write memory to run a program. To mark this historic event, Professor Jim Miles (University of Manchester Department of Computer Science) describes how a definitive new image of the Manchester computer was recreated using rediscovered original negatives.
In Part 4 of our Digital Collections Internship series, the Imaging team reflect on the impact of the programme.
My first project at the JRRIL, photographing a complex bound archive, and detailing the specific techniques and equipment needed for this particular work.
A varied collection of Japanese maps, including maps of Japan, world maps, road maps, and different types of local maps, is now available on Manchester Digital Collection.
19th-century writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens are united in our new digital collection.
I became interested in the symbols, the designs chosen, and what that says about the person to whom the seal belong?
During my 13 or so years at the Rylands, I’ve had the chance to see truly mind blowing things across our entire collections.
dsh’s glasses inspired me to create work in response to his concrete poetry.
As a practicing artist alongside my role as a photographer, I’m interested in the aesthetic qualities and life cycles of objects.