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This week’s digitised glass plate negative photo shows the Roman Fortress near Kostamneh and was taken in 1906.

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#glassplatenegative #photo #romanfortress #museum
March 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Today we are sharing one of our favourite digitised glass plate negatives. The original photo was taken during Garstang’s excavations at Abydos and shows two ancient Egyptian faience hippos!

#glassplatenegative #digitisation #ancientegypt #excavations #Abydos #museum
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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This digitised glass plate negative shows a Predynastic four-legged bowl with white decorations. The photo was taken by Garstang in 1900-1901 during a survey of sites between Alawniyeh and Bet Khallaf in Egypt.

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#glassplatenegative #ancientegypt #predynastic #photo #survey #museum
April 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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This #digitised #glassplatenegative shows mud brick walls and a half-excavated #sculpture in the foreground. The original #photo was taken in 1911 during Garstang’s #excavations of the #ancientSudanese #settlement of #Meroë.

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May 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This digitised glass plate negative is from Garstang’s excavations at Abydos and shows one of the finds – a royal stela of the New Kingdom pharaoh Seti I.

#glassplatenegative #excavations #Abydos #ancientegypt #royal #newkingdom #pharaoh
March 20, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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This #digitised #glassplatenegative was taken during Garstang’s #excavations at the site of #Abydos. The #photography depicts a senet board with pieces. Senet is an #ancientEgyptian #boardgame that was played from the Old Kingdom all the way to the Roman Period.

Ancient Egyptian board game called senet
July 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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This glass plate negative photograph was taken in 1907 during Garstang’s survey of Anatolia. It shows the remains of a ruined tower at Huru Pegamber (Cyrrhus/ Nabi Huri, Syria).

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#glassplatenegative #photograph #Survey #Anatolia #tower #museum
August 20, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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This digitised glass plate negative shows stairway leading to the tomb at site R1 at Reqaqnah. The photo was taken in 1901-1902 by Garstang during his excavations at the site of Reqaqnah in Egypt.

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#ancientegypt #glassplatenegative #stairway #tomb #photo #excavations #museum
April 7, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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That Devils are really Angels (self-portrait of the artist as the elephant man)
Caffenol Contact Print from 4x5 glass plate negative
14 x 11 inches
2025
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#elephantman #glassplatenegative #largeformatphotography #antiquarianphotography
December 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Take a look at my Work!
Studiowork, Large Format Photographie, Darkroom, Glassplatenegative, Saltprint, Historical Photography Process, Analog Photography #GayArt #Gayfetisch #PupPlay #Gayrubber #Gasmask #QueerArt #Gay
February 24, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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This glass plate negative photo was taken in 1907 by Garstang during his survey of Anatolia. The image shows the remains of a postern near Boghaz Keui, (Boğazkale, Turkey).

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#glassplatenegative #archive #photo #survey #Anatolia #Turkey #museum
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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This digitised glass plate negative shows site R70 at Reqaqnah and in particular the panelled eastern wall of the mastaba. The photo was taken during the 1901-1902 Garstang excavations at Reqaqnah.

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#ancientegypt #excavations #mastaba #glassplatenegative #photo #museum
May 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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I will be giving a talk on my book Victoriana Sydney 1838-1901 this afternoon at the closing event for ‘Where The Light Gets In’. Nepean Art & Design Gallery: 1:30

#victorianasydney #photography #daguerréotype #postcards #tintypes #glassplatenegative #magiclantern #19thcenturyart #sydney #australia
April 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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This photo is a digitised glass plate negative and was taken in 1905 by John Garstang. It shows the exterior of the ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur.
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#AncientEgypt #glassplatenegative #temple #museum
Black and white archival photo showing the exterior of an Ancient Egyptian Temple.
July 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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This digitised glass plate negative of Garstang’s Abydos excavations shows a statue of a seated individual.

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#ancientegypt #excavations #Abydos #statue #glassplatenegative #museum
Ancient Egyptian seated statue
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Today’s #digitised #glassplatenegative shows two #ancientEgyptian kohl pots in the shape of seated #monkeys. They are made from #stone and were #excavated in 1905-1906 by Garstang at #Esna.

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Two monkey shaped pot containers
May 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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This digitised glass plate negative photograph is from Garstang’s 1906 work in the site of Dakkah. The image depicts the Temple of Dakkah, looking though the temple axis towards the pylon.

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#ancientegypt #temple #excavations #glassplatenegative #museum
Archive image from 1906 showing the Temple of Dakkah, looking though the temple axis towards the pylon.
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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In 1907 Garstang conducted a survey of Anatolia. This is a digitised glass plate negative photo from that survey and it shows an image of a tomb entrance with lion carvings at Ayazin in Turkey.

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#Anatolia #survey #Tomb #lions #Turkey #digitisedphotography #glassplatenegative #museum
March 24, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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This digitised glass plate negative shows a large sculptured column featuring a lion carving at 'Arslan'. The original photo was taken in 1907 during Garstang’s survey of Anatolia.

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#glassplatenegative #sculpture #column #lion #survey #Anatolia #photo #museum
July 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Today’s digitised glass plate negative shows an ancient Egyptian dagger. The image was taken during Garstang’s excavations at the site of Abydos and shows this copper alloyed dagger with elaborate handle.

#ancientegypt #dagger #glassplatenegative #image #Abydos #museum
Copper alloyed dagger with elaborate handle
September 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Queens commute with elephants?! 🐘 Circus parades were real 100 yrs ago! #QPLarchives photos:

#Flushing, Main St/Roosevelt Ave, 1895
#Jamaica, Jamaica Ave/168th St, 1921

#GlassPlateNegative
#CircusParade
#AmericanCircusDay

Post by Nande Walters, Citi + QPL Fellow, 2024-2025
Elephants in a circus parade in Flushing Queens in 1895 Elephants in a circus parade in Jamaica Queens in 1921 - the old elevated subway station is in the background.
April 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Between 1906 and 1909 Garstang excavated the site of Abydos in Egypt. This digitised glass plate negative shows one of the finds, a statuette of the god Osiris.

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#excavations #Abydos #glassplatenegative #statuette #god #Osiris #ancietegypt #museum
Statuette of the god Osiris
August 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This digitised glass plate negative shows the site of R70 at Reqaqnah with an inscribed door jamb in situ at the south entrance of a mastaba tomb. The image was taken during the 1901-02 excavations at the site.

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#glassplatenegative #archaeology #excavations #mastaba #Tomb #museum
An inscribed door jamb in situ at the south entrance of a mastaba tomb.
August 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Another image from my old glass plates.

This chap is posing somewhat uncomfortably. I believe he’s wearing the clothes of a cleric, and the hat looks like it would be a dashing addition to the ensemble!

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#glassplate #glassplatenegative #photographyhistory #history #clericalclothes
December 9, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Another image from my old glass plates.

I’ve chosen this one purely for the wonderful selection of boaters, bonnets, and other titfers! Another group in the same setting implies this is at a cricket match.

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#glassplate #glassplatenegative #photographyhistory #history #fashionhistory
November 20, 2024 at 8:37 PM