Early History of Composite Photography

Small volume compiled by Francis Galton, comprised of the following bound offprints and images:

Board bearing 5 images of likenesses of Napoleon, plus the resultant composite image; 1878.

Francis Galton, Composite Portraits, (London: Harrison & Sons, 1878).

Francis Galton, Generic Images, with autotype illustrations; 1879.

Francis Galton, "Composite Portraiture", Journal and Transactions of the Photographic Society of Great Britain, Vol V No 9, (1881).

Francis Galton, F A Mahomed, "An Inquiry into the Physiognomy of Phthisis by the Methods of Composite Portraiture", (1882).

1878-1882

1 volume

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.