Portrait of a Living Archive
It’s with great excitement that we can announce that descriptions of The Portrait of a Living Archive photographs are nowContinue Reading
Tag: Photography
Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections: Bringing the Digital Backlog and Cataloguing Practice under Control
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia, Metadata Assistant (Imaging). In my previous post: Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections IContinue Reading
Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia, Metadata Assistant (Imaging). A prime example of neo-Gothic architecture and one of the mostContinue Reading
From Wild West to West End: ‘Buffalo Bill’ Scrapbook and Performances of Frontier Manhood
Stevie Watson, a PhD student in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, writes about our ‘Buffalo Bill’ Scrapbook, EnglishContinue Reading
Close to the heart, the Art of family
In previous blogs about the Rylands photographic collections there has been a lot of focus on architectural photographs and landscapes;Continue Reading
Innovators and Artists, the early pioneers of Photography
The ‘Out of the Ether’ project, supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, which is facilitating cataloguingContinue Reading
Reader Services Curious Finds – Parabola
This Curious Find comes to us from one of our regular readers Michael Gilligan. The item is Underweysung Der Messung,Continue Reading
Francis Frith, Manchester & the Business of Art
Francis Frith (1822 –1898) was an English photographer who captured images of many towns in the United Kingdom but isContinue Reading
Recollections of Dunham Massey
A fabulous collection of photographs entitled Recollections of Dunham c1870s has now been catalogued and is available to see viaContinue Reading
Picturing the The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire, 1901
We have a further addition to Visual Collections items that have been catalogued as part of the Paul Mellon CentreContinue Reading