Photographic Archive
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TitlePhotographic Archive
Reference codeHPG
Date1604-1990
Scope and ContentPhotographic material collected or produced by Harry Price in the course of his psychical research or in the pursuit of his general interests. Includes photographs, glass lantern slides, glass plate negatives, negatives, magic lantern slides, cardboard-backed and glass steroescopic photographs and other photographic material including autochromes, daguerrotypes and non-photographic material that was listed by Price amongst his photographic material.
NotesPlease note that this is a higher-level description, which describes a significant number of archives within the Harry Price papers. It should NOT be used when ordering archives for research. Some images of photographs in this archive are held by the Mary Evans picture library.
Conditions governing accessSome of the material in this sub-fonds is very fragile and/or in a poor condition. Please give at least one week's notice of a visit to view it as a conservator will need to assess the condition of each individual item before viewing can be permitted. Depending on the conservator's assessment, access may be permitted only with supervised handling, and in cases where the item is in a particularly poor state, access may not be permitted at all.
System of ArrangementThe Photographic Archive is divided into the following 8 sections:
HPG/1 - Photographs
HPG/2 - Glass Lantern Slides for Illustrated Talks
HPG/3 - Negatives
HPG/4 - Broken and Unidentified Negatives
HPG/5 - Glass Stereoscopic Photographs
HPG/6 - Cardboard Backed Stereoscopic Photographs
HPG/7 - Other Photographic Items
HPG/8 - Non-Photographic Items found in Photographic Sequence
Level of descriptionsub-fonds