V&A Museum - Royal Photographic Society

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph titled 'The Canal Boat', taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in 1888. A man walks a gangplank to load a c...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph of a woman sitting outside her cottage using a spinning wheel, taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in 1894...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph titled 'Ploughing and Burning', taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in about 1890. Two teams of oxen pull...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph of a farrier fitting a new horseshoe whilst some children watch, taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in ab...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph of two horses pulling a cart piled high with branches and twigs, taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in ab...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph titled 'The Wayfarer', taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) in 1885. A girl carries a jug of refreshments...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SSPL A photograph by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906) of boats on the River Thames, London. The picture was taken between 1881 and...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O'Gorman.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Hugh Knowles of a boy with a wheelbarrow.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer Helen Messenger Murdoch standing in front of the US...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Autochrome of the Sphinx in Egypt by Helen Messenger Murdoch.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, woman in El...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, woman in ex...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, woman in ex...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, woman in a...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, couple with...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, couple in a...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, couple in 1...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, woman in 18...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, woman in 18...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photographer and date unknown. Edwardian portrait, woman in ex...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch. 'Portrait, Bombay', c 1...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch, date unknown. Portrait...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Fred Judge. 'So This is London', 1923.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O??Gorman.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Fred Holland Day. 'Towheaded Girl in a Chiton',...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph of Horace Nicholls an early documentary photographer....

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph of Horace Nicholls an early documentary photographer....

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph of Horace Nicholls an early documentary photographer....

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph of Horace Nicholls an early documentary photographer....

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Bromide print. Photograph by Horace W Nicholls (1867-1941). This...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Bromide print. Photograph by Ernest R Ashton of an elderly man s...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Joseph Gale specialised in naturalistic photographs of rural lif...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Joseph Gale specialised in naturalistic photographs of rural lif...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Joseph Gale specialised in naturalistic photographs of rural lif...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Joseph Gale specialised in naturalistic photographs of rural lif...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Mr Willcox Pollen and the Misses Thorpe. Photograph from an albu...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Women in a bathing machine.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Children paddling at the seaside, late 19th-early 20th century.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Bromide print.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Two boys, late 19th-early 20th century.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Anonymous daguerreotype.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Bromide print. Photograph by Ernest R Ashton.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Fred Judge. 'Held Up. Trafalgar Square', 1923.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph from an album compiled at the time of the General Str...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London The number 1 bus did a circular route starting and ending at Ea...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Men riding on the back of a horse-drawn cart. Photograph from an...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Parachutist.

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch. 'Guard of Honour, Bomba...

The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society Collection © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photograph by Helen Messenger Murdoch. 'Taj Mahal at Agra, Tak...