One of a series of four plates enclosed in a single housing.

Rare landscape daguerreotype. Exhibited at Souveraine Angleterre exhibition, compare with 2003-5001/2/28150. These two plates are part of a group, see also 28141, 28213 and 28227.

Prince Consort and Queen Victoria Daguerreotype from Early Portraits date probably soon after 1840' label on verso

The Poor Law Guardians

A stereoscopic daguerreotype taken by Henry Negretti and Joseph Zambra, showing an interior view of the Crystal Palace,Classic Ornamental Sculpture in the Greek Sculpture Gallery. After housing the Great Exhibition in 1851 the Crystal Palace had been dismantled and rebuilt on a site at Sydenham, south east London, reopening in June 1854. The 'Palace of the People' as it became known, was at first a huge success as the world's first 'theme park'.