Our collection

In our next post about dating your old family photographs, Colin Harding shows you how to identify a ferrotype, more commonly known as a tintype.

New team member Kieron was born in the same year as the museum and—as a Bradford resident—has been lucky enough to grow up with us.

An new archive, including work by Martin Parr, Julian Germain and Anna Fox, has joined our collection.

The world’s earliest surviving negative and Fox Talbot’s mousetrap cameras—priceless artefacts from the birth of photography—are stored here in our archives.

The cine camera which formed the beginnings of our cinematography collection sits right here in Bradford, the first UNESCO City of Film. Fitting, don’t you think?

Colin Harding takes a quick peek at the spooky world of photographic ghosts, from the first accidental images to the charlatans of the Crewe Circle.

Containing millions of photographs from the first half of the 20th century, the Daily Herald Archive is one of the gems of our collection.

We’ll be counting down to the big 3-0 by sharing some of our biggest achievements and most interesting collection items, and we want you to share your memories.

This year’s IMD is all about memory, creativity and social change—something which is close to our hearts, and inseparable from our collection.

Flickr is rebooting the Commons, and they’ve just launched two brand new institutions.

In this week’s post about dating your photographs, Colin Harding shows you how to identify a collodion positive, also known as an ambrotype, using just a few simple clues.

Dating early photographs by process and format can be a useful skill, especially if sitters’ clothing offers no clues. Colin Harding provides some expert advice on how to unlock their secrets.