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Photography
Photography in Science and Technology
Photography in Science and Technology

Photography in Science and Technology

Uncover photographs that document the scientific process. From early studies of animal and human motion to modern microscopic imagery, from the geology of the Earth to the surface of the moon, discover how photography has played a crucial role in the sciences.

  • A carved bone found at the Psalmodi site in France, with scale to indicate size

    Psalmodi Archaeological Dig Records A carved bone found at the Psalmodi site in France.

    View Full Item  in Williams College
  • Archaeological excavation in Papua New Guinea in the 1960s

    Rappaport, Roy A

    This excavation is discussed in Roger C. Green et al. (1967) Archeology on the island of Mo'orea, French Polynesia. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History 51 (pt. 2), p. 111-…

    View Full Item  in UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
  • Human burial site with labels and scale

    Llano Seco Ranch with Moorehead Site Human bones Slide notes: Labels next to bones read: But S290--Burial 14 Feat 5 MSS 160:201:143 Color original slide ; 35 mm

    View Full Item  in California State University, Chico
  • A paleontologist preparing to take a photograph with a camera attachment to a microscope

    Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Deep Sea Drilling Project Records, 1961-1987

    View Full Item  in UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
  • Stereogram showing striations in rock formations from George M. Wheeler’s 1872 exploration west of the 100th meridian

    Photographer's number: 100Photographer's series: Geological Series. Explorations West of the 100th Meridian. Expedition of 1872, Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Com'dg.

    View Full Item  in UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
  • Page from a scrapbook created by Frank Asahel Beckwith showing fossilized specimens

    Beckwith, Frank Asahel, 1876-1951

    Nels Bogh 1937. Ollenellus formerly neolenus. (See Resser letter). Shields. Over thorasic segments. Genal spine. Spines. Page 83b from a photo album on fossils and geology compiled by Frank A. Beckwit…

    View Full Item  in Delta (UT) City Library
  • Photograph showing rock strata and a hammer from the Geogology department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

    This record has been migrated from a legacy system and is in queue to be enhanced. undated A hammer held up by nails in rock

    View Full Item  in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
  • Inscription in rock documented by the US Geological Survey in Arizona

    U.S. Geological Survey

    18139 Loper inscription on Sentinel Rock near confluence of Wahweap Cr. And Colorado River. USGS #P-557-420-39

    View Full Item  in Utah Department of Cultural and Community Engagement
  • Infrared photograph of the Port Loma Outfall in San Diego, built in 1963 for the discharge of treated wastewater into the ocean

    North, Wheeler J

    Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Wheeler James North Papers, 1953-2002 In Wheeler J.…

    View Full Item  in UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
  • Infrared photograph of Zion National Park area from space

    Brareton, Tom

    Infrared picture of Zion National Park area from space. Quichapa Lake upper left. Kolob Fingers far left. Zion Canyon middle. Toquerville bottom middle. Navajo Lake upper right.

    View Full Item  in Southern Utah University - Sherratt Library
  • Infrared photograph from the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center demonstrating the effectiveness of camoflague

    Title from item or from accompanying material. Date from item or from accompanying material.

    View Full Item  in U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center
  • Heliographic engravings of cell structure and spinal chord taken from photographs created with a microscope and camera

    Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction In: Reflex paralysis : its pathological anatomy; and relation to the sympathetic nervous system / by M. Gonz…

    View Full Item  in Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
  • Photograph of a radiolarian skeleton taken on a scanning electron microscope, magnified 600 times

    Deep Sea Drilling Project

    Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Deep Sea Drilling Project Records, 1961-1987

    View Full Item  in UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
  • Scientist preparing a sample and representative images created using several techniques

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Technical Publications Office Photographs 1967-1…

    View Full Item  in UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
  • Series of photographs of a horse in motion taken by Edward Muybridge as part of his animal locomotion studies

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904

    Plate in: Animal locomotion : an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements, 1872-1885 / By Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : University of Pennylvania, 1887, v. 9 P…

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • Equipment for the creation of time-lapse photography

    General Electric Company

    View Full Item  in miSci
  • Researcher with a time lapse camera at Blue Glacier, Olympic National Park

    Kirk, Louie

    Time Lapse Camera, research Ice Fall, Blue Glacier.Image information provided by Olympic National Park staff.

    View Full Image  in University of Washington
  • Video combining the time lapse photographs of a glacial stream

    1981 VGlacier2.mov

    The film is silent but includes detailed title cards with explanations of the process used for recording images of the streams. This research appears to have been conducted as a collaboration between…

    View Full Item  in University of Washington
  • Photograph of an early X-ray machine in Dr. George F. Harding’s office

    Shipler Commercial Photographers

    Jan. 22, 1908 X-Ray Machine in Dr. George F. Harding's office, S.L.C. Shipler Photog. #8069

    View Full Item  in Utah Department of Cultural and Community Engagement
  • Dr. Joseph Greene records notes with a Dictaphone while reviewing X-ray film

    Rittase, William

    Highland Hospital physician, Dr. Joseph Greene, records notes with a Dictaphone while reviewing x-ray film.

    View Full Item  in Highland Hospital. Library
  • Photograph demonstrating the coil technology of Diasonics, Inc. MRI scanner machine

    Scope/Content: Woman demonstrates coil technology of Diasonics, Inc. MRI scanner machine. From a marketing slide presentation prepared by Diasonics, Inc.

    View Full Item  in UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections
  • Color MRI scan showing head, neck, and brain

    Scope/Content: Marketing slide created by Diasonics, Inc. and the Radiologic Imaging Laboratory (RIL) for the 1985 Radiological Society of North America conference; color medical imaging MRI scan of h…

    View Full Item  in UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections
  • Photograph of the surface of Jupiter showing the giant red spot

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration. John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. 3/1/1999

    The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 4/9/1979 Keywords: Larsen Scan

    View Full Item  in National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures
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