Iconographic archive
The iconographic archive constists of a wide collection of historical and recent photographs, prints and drawings, medals.
Plenty of materials are available in digital version: the most of them are freely accessible in internet, some others have internal access only.
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Related Resources (PDF)Virtual Exhibitions
The library houses a wide collection of portraits of physicians and scientists. The approximately 880 photographic portraits, available in different formats, have been taken by important Italian and foreign studios and date back to the period between 19th and 20th centuries.
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Related Resources (PDF)
- Roster collection inventory
- Roster minor collection inventory
- Reproductions of Roster photos (Archivi Alinari) inventory
- Reproductions of Roster photos (Liceo artistico, FI) inventory
- Reproductions of Roster photos (Museo di storia naturale-Botanica, UNIFI) inventory
- Reproductions of Roster photos (Biblioteca di storia naturale-Botanica, UNIFI) inventory
- Reproductions of Roster photos (Dipartimento di scienze della salute, UNIFI) inventory
Thematic Collections
This collection consists of around 300 documents concerning Giorgio Roster (1843-1927), a professor of hygiene and man of many interests, one of which was experimental photography.
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Related Resources (PDF)Archives
The Museo Galileo keeps a collection of documents related to the 1st National exhibition of the history of science. In addition, the collection includes photographs taken by the Alinari brothers.
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The Bazzechi collection includes about 3,550 photographs (in the form of glass plates, films and prints) taken by the Aretine photographer Ivo Bazzechi between 1955 and 1971. These images document the instrument collections of the former Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (presently Museo Galileo) and the activities of studies and research it supported.
The historical photographic collections are mostly related to scientific instruments belonging to the collections of the Museo Galileo or kept in other Italian and foreign museums.