Abstract:Abstract In the early 1850s the Trustees of the British Museum made their first, and rather tentative, response to repeated requests from historians of the day for photographic records of many of the ...Abstract In the early 1850s the Trustees of the British Museum made their first, and rather tentative, response to repeated requests from historians of the day for photographic records of many of the Museum's treasures to be made available to the world of scholarship. When the Trustees finally agreed to the request, they were laying down the foundations of a massive worldwide industry, whereby the treasures of the world's libraries, museums and galleries would eventually be accessible to all. In their first careful steps, they were seeking merely to make a few copies of a very few treasures available to a few equally select academics, but once the process had been set in motion, it gained momentum with considerable rapidity.Read More
Publication Year: 1988
Publication Date: 1988-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
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