Light Box Collection

Gertrude Stein
GERTRUDE STEIN American writer

WHALE C1870

Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, analysis C016 / 4236
Cuban Missile Crisis. Strategic Air Command (SAC) photo interpreters using a magnifying and mapping machine to examine aerial reconnaissance images of Cuba, obtained in 1962

X-ray diagnosis
MODEL RELEASED. X-ray diagnosis. Doctor examining an X-ray of a hand

Studying CT scans
MODEL RELEASED. Studying CT scan. Doctor studying computer tomography (CT) scans of horizontal sections through a patients chest and abdomen

Transparencies on a lightbox

Doctors examining MRI scans
MODEL RELEASED. Doctors examining MRI scans. The scans are sagittal (side view) sections through a patients head. MRI is an important diagnostic tool that allows imaging of internal structures

Begonia sp. Apricot Cascade flowers
Begonia Apricot Cascade flowers. Double and single flowers are present. This variety is grown for hanging baskets. Photographed on a lightbox

Lobelia erinus Regatta Series red flowers and Campanula poscharskyana blue flowers from the mountains of Croatia. Photographed on a light box

Examining fraudulent financial documentation - cheques and credit cards are checked for authenticity by the Metropolitan Police force

Retoucher working on a colour separation positive
A Retoucher working on a colour separation positive at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Colour transparencies being viewed on a lightbox book
A colour photograph album invented by M. P Duchenne. In 1910, technology had not enabled colour images to be printed on paper, only as glass plates

Lincoln (Hunt)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President

Rameses Ii / Brunton
RAMESES II (THE GREAT) also known as Meryamun or Usermaatre (19th dynasty) A powerful ruler and a prolific builder

Marconi (Simpson)
GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italian inventor in 1907

Beetle / Lamia Roylii / Tzs
LAMIA ROYLII

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