The John Rylands Research Institute and Library has excellent holdings of early photographic albums and photographically illustrated books, including work by eminent and pioneering photographers such as William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, Francis Frith and James Mudd, as well as a number of albums by unknown or anonymous individuals.
This collection contains seven important early photographic albums and will be added to as part of the Library’s ongoing digitisation programme. Highlights of this collection include the albums The Pencil of Nature (1844) by William Henry Fox Talbot, English architecture and landscapes (c1860) by Roger Fenton, Intérieurs Anglais (1880’s – 1890’s) by Henry Bedford Lemere and West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire (1901) by Dr Thomas O'Conor Donelan. They also demonstrate multiple analogue photographic processes such as albumen, salt, cyanotype and silver gelatine prints.
Read more and explore the albums here: https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/earlyphotography/1
Image: from Recollections of Dunham. An album of photographs of Dunham Massey, Trafford, by James Mudd one of Manchester’s most important Victorian photographers. See: https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/VS-VPH-00010/15
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