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Photography collection
The Museum has an extensive photographic collection, the first images dating from the mid 1850s. Thomas Benwell Latchmore and his son Thomas William documented the town from the early 1860s, providing a valuable record of the town's development. Almost all the negatives were destroyed immediately after World War II for glass reclamation, but several of the photographers' stock albums and many display copies remain, a core of around 2,000 images.
In the 1980s the Hitchin Comet newspaper transferred its back collection of glass negatives to the museum. These are mostly in 5" x 4" format,
Two members of the Lucas family, daguerreotype
See also
Latchmore Collection
Dry Plate Negatives
Movie Photography