The John Joly Collection

This photographic archive has 13 glass plates related to Irish geologist, physicist and innovator John Joly including early photographs of Henry Horatio Dixon (late professor of Botany at Trinity College Dublin and an important figure in Irish science), P.M. Crosthwaite (Professor of Geology at Trinity College Dublin), the artist Walter Osborne (1859-1903), and others. Also includes colour photographs which are examples of Joly's patented colour photographic screen process (1894), including photographs of paintings by Walter Osborne and Sarah Purser and photographs of plants and flowers. Collection also includes one patented Joly-process colour viewing screen. Gift of Dr Ruth M. Dixon 2023