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'In 2019, conservators ... made an intriguing discovery while examining The Design Registers, a collection within the Board of Trade records. Among the designs, they found several early photographs mounted on an unusual black backing material.
The distinctive appearance of these images led to further investigation, ultimately revealing them to be pannotypes – a rare 19th-century photographic process.'
The National Archives blog · The pannotype mystery: cracking the code of a forgotten photographic process - The National Archives blogDr Marc Vermeulen explains some exciting research by our Collection Care team.
