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Charles DeForest Fredricks
The American Bouquet
1889
Albumen print
13 5/8 x 10 1/2 ins (34.61 x 26.67 cm) (overall)

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.3505

LL/80780

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John Plumbe Jr.
[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., east front elevation]
1846 (ca)
Daguerreotype

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
DAG no. 1230, LC-USZC4-3595 DLC (color film copy transparency post-1992)

LL/33474

2 of 24

Platt D. Babbitt
[Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River]
1853, July
Daguerreotype

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
DAG no. 1165

LL/7320 [Further details available]

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Numbers of 15-year-and-older male Daguerreotypists in US States and Territories (1850 census)
1850 (census)
Book page

Internet - Original source ill-defined

LL/122458 [Further details available]

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George Robinson Fardon
View of a portion of the City and Bay, from Taylor street - in the distance the U.S. Hospital.
[San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco]
1855 (ca)
Salt paper print
9.0 x 12.1 cm (oval)

George Eastman Museum
Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer

LL/25562 [Further details available]

5 of 24

J.D. Edwards
Steamships at Cotton Wharf, New Orleans
1857-1860 (ca)
Salt print
5 3/16 × 7 13/16 ins (13.18 × 19.84 cm) (image and sheet)

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.209

LL/81734 [Further details available]

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William Henry Jackson
Hayden Survey Party members
n.d.
Albumen print

Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (53 / 30)

LL/32257 [Further details available]

7 of 24

William Henry Jackson
The Mountain of the Holy Cross
1873
Albumen silver print
10 1/4 x 13 1/4 ins

George Eastman Museum

LL/33166 [Further details available]

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William Henry Jackson
High Bridge in the Loop. Near Georgetown.
1885 (ca)
Albumen print
11.3 x 17.6 cm

George Eastman Museum
Record Id: 1974:0013:0316

LL/35665 [Further details available]

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J.T. Zealy
Renty
1850, March
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
8.9 x 6.4 cm

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Peabody Number: 35-5-10/53038

LL/53067 [Further details available]

10 of 24

George E. Trager
Burial of the dead at the battle of Wounded Knee, S.D. [South Dakota].
1890, 29 December (after)

National Museum of Health and Medicine

LL/31924 [Further details available]

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Edward S. Curtis
The Vanishing Race
1904
Orotone
10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in (26.7 x 34.3 cm)

Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction Oct 21, 2008, Lot 34)

LL/31214 [Further details available]

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Edward S. Curtis
The Vanishing Race
1904
Orotone

UCR - University of California, Riverside
Gift of the Western Photographic Collectors Assn. and Dr. Robert Bingham, Accession Number: 1980.0033.0001

LL/104667 [Further details available]

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Charlotte Pinkerton Blazer, Walter McClintock
[Indian male with gun seated on white horse]
n.d.
Lantern slide, hand-coloured
8 x 10 cm

Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Walter McClintock papers, Call number: WA MSS S-1175, Object ID: 2010441

LL/66423

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Philip A. Miller (American)
Cherokee Land Opening
1893
Albumen print

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.3466

LL/80774

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William Henry Jackson
Street View in Corinne, Utah Territory
1868-1870 (ca)
Albumen print
2 1/8 x 3 5/8 ins (5.4 x 9.21 cm) (overall)

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.516

LL/80776

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Lewis W. Hine
Immigrants, Ellis Island (Italians looking for lost luggage)
1905 (taken) 1920s (? print)
Gelatin silver print, warm-toned
9 7/8 x 16 ins (50.5 x 40.6 cm)

Sotheby's - New York
Photographs, 1 April 2015, Lot: 37

LL/58458 [Further details available]

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Lewis W. Hine
Sadie Pfeiffer, Spinner in Cotton Mill, North Carolina
1910
Gelatin silver print

J. Paul Getty Museum
© J. Paul Getty Trust [84.XM.967.15]

LL/5974

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Dorothea Lange
Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother) [Nipomo, California]
1936
Gelatin silver print
13 7/16 x 10 9/16

J. Paul Getty Museum
© J. Paul Getty Trust [98.XM.162]

LL/6028

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Dorothea Lange
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
1933
Gelatin silver print
11 x 13 7/8

J. Paul Getty Museum
© Oakland Museum of California, the City of Oakland [Getty: 2000.43.1]

LL/6030 [Further details available]

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Dorothea Lange
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
1933
Gelatin silver print
4 5/8 × 3 5/8 ins (11.75 × 9.21 cm) (image)

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.4306

LL/81306

21 of 24

Russell Lee
Shasta dam under construction. California
1942, June
Color slide

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction from color slide. LC-USF351-574. LC-DIG-fsac-1a34236. FSA/OWI Collection. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

LL/44249

22 of 24

Robert Frank
Trolley, New Orleans
[The Americans]
1955 (taken) 1960s (print)
Gelatin silver print
12 5/16 x 18 13/16 ins (31.2 x 47.8 cm) (image) 15 7/8 x 19 7/8 ins (40.3 x 50.5 cm) (sheet)

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Purchased with funds contributed by Dorothy Norman, 1969, Accession Number: 1969-195-55, © Robert Frank, the The Americans

LL/71782

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Stephen Shore
U.S. 10, Post Falls, ID
[Uncommon Places 1973-1979]
1974, 25 August
Chromogenic print
8 x 10 in

Edwynn Houk Gallery

LL/5172

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1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926
1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
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Contents - Themes & Fragments

PhV	1840-1860 - Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853)
PhV	African Americans - Introduction to photography by, and of, African Americans
PhV	African Americans - J.T. Zealy: African American slaves
PhV	Albumen prints - Albumen prints: Events
PhV	Albumen prints - Albumen prints: Scientific
PhV	Anthropology and ethnology - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
PhV	Anthropology and ethnology - Edward S. Curtis: Orotones
PhV	Anthropology and ethnology - J.T. Zealy: African American slaves
PhV	Architecture - George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
PhV	Botany - Introduction to flowers
PhV	California - Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
PhV	California - George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
PhV	Calotypists - USA - George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
PhV	Children - Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America
PhV	Cityscapes - Urban - George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
PhV	Cityscapes - Urban - Introduction to cityscapes and the urban context
PhV	Colorado - Colorado: Mountain of the Holy Cross
PhV	Colour - FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour
PhV	Colour - Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Events
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Exteriors
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypomania
PhV	Daguerreotypists - USA - Daguerreotypes: USA
PhV	Daguerreotypists - USA - J.T. Zealy: African American slaves
PhV	District of Columbia - Introduction to photography in the District of Columbia
PhV	Documentary - Documentary photography
PhV	Documentary - Documentary photography and advocacy
PhV	Documentary - Early examples of photo reportage
PhV	Documentary - FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour
PhV	Documentary - FSA - Farm Security Administration: Examples
PhV	Documentary - Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America
PhV	Documentary - Tracking down the photographed
PhV	Early examples of photo reportage - Early examples of photo reportage
PhV	Early examples of photo reportage - Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853)
PhV	Early social commentary - Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America
PhV	Emotions - Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
PhV	Emotions - Emotions
PhV	Emotions - Emotions: Maternal
PhV	Ethnic and traditional costumes - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
PhV	Events - Albumen prints: Events
PhV	Events - Daguerreotypes: Events
PhV	Events - Introduction to events
PhV	Events - Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853)
PhV	Evidence - Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America
PhV	Expeditions and exploration - Landscape surveys of the American West
PhV	Expeditions and exploration - Surveying
PhV	Expeditions and exploration - U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869)
PhV	Family life - Motherhood
PhV	Fashion 1930-1940 - The Depression and the Dustbowl
PhV	Flowers - Flowers: Roses
PhV	Flowers - Introduction to flowers
PhV	FSA - Farm Security Administration - Dorothea Lange: FSA - Farm Security Administration
PhV	FSA - Farm Security Administration - Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
PhV	FSA - Farm Security Administration - Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
PhV	FSA - Farm Security Administration - FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour
PhV	FSA - Farm Security Administration - FSA - Farm Security Administration: Examples
PhV	Gelatin silver prints - Gelatin silver prints: Documentary
PhV	Gelatin silver prints - Gelatin silver prints: Portrait
PhV	Gelatin silver prints - The Gelatin Silver Print
PhV	Great Depression - Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
PhV	Great Depression - Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
PhV	History of photography - American photobooks
PhV	Iconic photographs - Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
PhV	Immigrants and immigration - Lewis W. Hine: Ellis Island
PhV	Industrial - Lewis W. Hine: Cotton mills
PhV	Introduction to Luminous-Lint - The global spread of photography
PhV	Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Landscape surveys of the American West
PhV	Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869)
PhV	Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - William Henry Jackson: Railways
PhV	Landscape - Surveying
PhV	Landscape photography and environmental issues - Railways and the landscape
PhV	Landscapes of North America - Colorado: Mountain of the Holy Cross
PhV	Landscapes of North America - Landscape photography in nineteenth century North America
PhV	Landscapes of North America - Landscape surveys of the American West
PhV	Landscapes of North America - The importance of railroads in the development of the American West
PhV	Landscapes of North America - U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869)
PhV	Lantern slides - Magic lantern slides
PhV	Lantern slides - Walter McClintock: The Blackfoot of Montana and their environment
PhV	Louisiana - Introduction to photography in Louisiana
PhV	Magic lanterns - Magic lantern slides
PhV	Middle age - Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
PhV	Montana - Walter McClintock: The Blackfoot of Montana and their environment
PhV	Mountains - Colorado: Mountain of the Holy Cross
PhV	Native Americans - Edward S. Curtis and Pictorialism
PhV	Native Americans - Edward S. Curtis: Photograph frames
PhV	Native Americans - Native American: The search for the Vanishing Race and a vanishing world
PhV	Native Americans - North American Indian Wars: The photography of aftermath
PhV	Native Americans - Photographers of Native Americans
PhV	Native Americans - Walter McClintock: The Blackfoot of Montana and their environment
PhV	New Topographics - Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
PhV	New York - Niagara Falls
PhV	New York - Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853)
PhV	Niagara Falls - Niagara Falls
PhV	Niagara Falls - Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853)
PhV	North American Indian Wars (1860-1900) - Native American: The search for the Vanishing Race and a vanishing world
PhV	North American Indian Wars (1860-1900) - North American Indian Wars: The photography of aftermath
PhV	North American Indian Wars (1860-1900) - Photographers of Native Americans
PhV	North Carolina - Introduction to photography in North Carolina
PhV	Occupational - Lewis W. Hine: Cotton mills
PhV	Occupational - Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America
PhV	Orotones - Edward S. Curtis: Orotones
PhV	Orotones - Introduction to the orotone
PhV	Paris - Daguerreotypomania
PhV	Peoples of the world - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
PhV	Photobooks - American photobooks
PhV	Photograph frames and easels - Edward S. Curtis: Photograph frames
PhV	Photography assimilated into popular culture - Daguerreotypomania
PhV	Photojournalism - Albumen prints: Events
PhV	Photojournalism - Daguerreotypes: Events
PhV	Pictorialism - Edward S. Curtis and Pictorialism
PhV	Portrait - Introduction to the portrait
PhV	Portrait - J.T. Zealy: African American slaves
PhV	Poverty - Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
PhV	Poverty - Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
PhV	Poverty - Introduction to poverty
PhV	Racial issues - Robert Frank: The Americans - Racial issues
PhV	Railways - Introduction to the photography of railways
PhV	Railways - The importance of railroads in the development of the American West
PhV	Railways - William Henry Jackson: Railways
PhV	Salt prints - George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
PhV	Salt prints - Salt prints: Exteriors
PhV	Scientific - Albumen prints: Scientific
PhV	Sequences and series - Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
PhV	Slavery, abolition and civil rights - J.T. Zealy: African American slaves
PhV	South Carolina - J.T. Zealy: African American slaves
PhV	Street - Robert Frank: The Americans
PhV	Street - Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
PhV	Travel - Robert Frank: The Americans
PhV	Travel - Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
PhV	Trends - The global spread of photography
PhV	USA - American photobooks
PhV	USA - Colorado: Mountain of the Holy Cross
PhV	USA - Daguerreotypes: USA
PhV	USA - FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour
PhV	USA - FSA - Farm Security Administration: Examples
PhV	USA - George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
PhV	USA - Introduction to photography in the USA
PhV	USA - J.T. Zealy: African American slaves
PhV	USA - Landscape photography in nineteenth century North America
PhV	USA - Landscape surveys of the American West
PhV	USA - Lewis W. Hine: Ellis Island
PhV	USA - Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America
PhV	USA - Native American: The search for the Vanishing Race and a vanishing world
PhV	USA - North American Indian Wars: The photography of aftermath
PhV	USA - Photographers of Native Americans
PhV	USA - Robert Frank: The Americans
PhV	USA - Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
PhV	USA - The importance of railroads in the development of the American West
PhV	USA - U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869)
PhV	Utah - Introduction to photography in Utah
PhV	War - Introduction to war photography
PhV	Water and waterfalls - Niagara Falls
PhV	Water and waterfalls - Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853)
PhV	Water and waterfalls - Waterfalls
PhV	Women photographers - Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother
PhV	Women photographers - Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
PhV	Working conditions - Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America

PhV	Platt D. Babbitt
PhV	Edward S. Curtis
PhV	J.D. Edwards
PhV	George Robinson Fardon
PhV	Robert Frank
PhV	Charles DeForest Fredricks
PhV	Lewis W. Hine
PhV	William Henry Jackson
PhV	Dorothea Lange
PhV	Russell Lee
PhV	John Plumbe Jr.
PhV	Stephen Shore
PhV	George E. Trager
PhV	J.T. Zealy

PhV	19th Century Photographic Publications: Illustrated books
PhV	Abrupt or violent death
PhV	Daguerreotypes
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Exterior views (1839-1855)
PhV	Different versions of Photographs
PhV	Documentary: 19th Century Documentary Projects
PhV	Documentary: 20th Century The FSA (Farm Security Administration)
PhV	Dorothea Lange
PhV	George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco
PhV	Native Americans 1840-1920
PhV	Niagara Falls
PhV	Talk: Travellers with a camera