Cataloguing the Collection of Langford Brooke Glass Plate Negatives
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia for Visual Collections. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer andContinue Reading
Tag: Portraits
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
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
A Mystery Methodist: Is this John Wesley, Charles Wesley or someone completely different?
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: One of the fascinating aspects of working with special collections is the opportunity to uncover treasuresContinue Reading
Facial recognition software solves Elizabeth Gaskell mystery
On the 150th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Gaskell (on 12 November 1865), a mystery surrounding the true identity ofContinue Reading
Picture Store
Elaine Sheldon from our Collection Care Team writes: Freelance paintings conservator Elizabeth Jowett has recently been working on a smallContinue Reading