Obscura Collection

Camera Obscura 1817
CAMERA OBSCURA the various components of an observation hut or kiosk housing the device

Using Camera Obscura
a girl explains to her younger brother and sisters how the camera works

Margate Jetty 1912
Margate Jetty - crowds enjoy their outing to the seaside

Llandudno Pier entrance and Camera Obscura, Wales

Pier entrance, Llandudno, showing the Camera Obscura on the hill, early 1900s

Camera Obscura, Margate

Margate Pier and Camera Obscura Victorian period

Camera Obscura and Science Museum, Victoria Tower, Douglas, Isle of Man, taken in 1890

Lesser akialoa (extinct) and cardinal
Lesser akialoa, Hemignathus obscurus (extinct) and cardinal myzomela, Myzomela cardinalis. (Hook-billed green honey-eater, Certhia obscura, native to Hawaii, and cardinal honey-eater)

Grasshoppers and locusts
Obscure bird grasshopper, Schistocerca obscura 1, fork-tailed bush katydid, Scudderia furcata 2, lubber grasshopper, Taeniopoda centurio 3, and coffee locust, Aularches miliaris subsp. miliaris 4

Various examples of the camera obscura. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature

Willow-leaved foxglove, Digitalis obscura.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

The Town, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales. Showing St Davids Church, Shore End of the Pier (designed by Eugenius Birch (1818-1884)) & the Camera Obscura Date: 1890s

Suffolk lungwort / Unspotted lungwort flowering wild plant (Pulmonaria obscura). in mixed forests near Ekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Russia

Camera Obscura
A camera obscura, invented in 1558 by Porta, can be set up in a tent, with a lens and mirror on top and a suitable surface inside onto which the view is projected

Camera Obscura 1860S
Two young French children discover the delights of the camera obscura when they see mama and papa walking in the gardens of their chateau

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