Luminous-Lint - for collectors and connoisseurs of fine photography
LL/9833
Josiah Johnson Hawes
The photographic wagon of J.J. Hawes, 19 Tremont Row Boston
n.d.
Stereocard
 
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
 
LL/9833 [Further details available]

1 of 62
LL/9834
Josiah Johnson Hawes
The photographic wagon of J.J. Hawes, 19 Tremont Row Boston (Detail)
n.d.
Stereocard
 
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
 
LL/9834 [Further details available]

2 of 62
LL/8175
Roger Fenton
The artist's van [The photographic van with Sparling on the box]
1855
Salt paper print
17.5 x 16.5 cm
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-9240 - PH - Fenton (R.), no. 122 (A size) [P&P]
 
LL/8175

3 of 62
LL/36711
Roger Fenton
Mr. Fenton's Photographic Van. - From the Crimean Exhibition
1855, 10 November
Magazine illustration
 
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100442890
 
LL/36711 [Further details available]

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LL/36712
Roger Fenton
Mr. Fenton's Photographic Van. - From the Crimean Exhibition
1855, 10 November
Magazine illustration
 
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100442890
 
LL/36712 [Further details available]

5 of 62
LL/36820
Roger Fenton
Cooking house, 8th Hussars
1855
Salted paper print
16 x 21 cm
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-9344
 
LL/36820 [Further details available]

6 of 62
LL/36821
Roger Fenton
Cooking house, 8th Hussars
1855
Salted paper print
16 x 21 cm
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-47542
 
LL/36821 [Further details available]

7 of 62
LL/8597
Mathew Brady's Studio
Brady Gallery photographic team for the Civil War, Berlin, Maryland
1862
Albumen print
 
Private collection of Larry West
Courtesy of Larry J. West, © West Companies, Inc., 2005. [From the book: Tokens of Affection and Regard]
 
LL/8597 [Further details available]

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LL/43005
Mathew Brady's Studio
Brady Gallery photographic team for the Civil War, Berlin, Maryland
1862, 28 October
Albumen print
 
Location and source information requested
 
LL/43005 [Further details available]

9 of 62
LL/35275
Mathew Brady's Studio
Brady's photographic outfit in the field near Petersburg, Va.
1864
Albumen print
 
National Archives and Records Administration
111-B-5077
 
LL/35275

10 of 62
LL/11463
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
View of the Petersburg Gas Works [Detail]
[Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 81]
n.d.
Albumen print
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (47 / 213)
 
LL/11463 [Further details available]

11 of 62
LL/42991
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
New bridge built by McDowell's engineers, Bull Run, VA
1862
Albumen print
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Ref: 00237u
 
LL/42991 [Further details available]

12 of 62
LL/42996
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Approach to town, Culpepper, VA
1863, November
Albumen print
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Ref: 01074u
 
LL/42996 [Further details available]

13 of 62
LL/61350
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Petersburg, Va. Mills; photographic wagon of Engineer Dept. in foreground
1865
Stereograph, glass, wet collodion
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpb-00613 (digital file from original neg.) LC-B8171-1105 (b&w film neg.), Call Number: LC-B815- 1105 [P&P]
 
LL/61350

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LL/61351
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Petersburg, Va. Mills; photographic wagon of Engineer Dept. in foreground
1865
Stereograph, glass, wet collodion, detail
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpb-00613 (digital file from original neg.) LC-B8171-1105 (b&w film neg.), Call Number: LC-B815- 1105 [P&P]
 
LL/61351

15 of 62
LL/35273
Alexander Gardner
Photography wagon, with Alexander Gardiner seated in the middle
n.d.
Albumen print
 
This work is out of copyright
 
LL/35273 [Further details available]

16 of 62
LL/43000
Samuel A. Cooley
Sam Cooley - photographer, employees, and working apparatus
1863 (ca)
Albumen print
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Ref: 03518u
 
LL/43000 [Further details available]

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LL/35274
Samuel A. Cooley
Sam A. Cooley, Field Dark-Room
n.d.
Albumen print
 
This work is out of copyright
 
LL/35274 [Further details available]

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LL/36097
Samuel A. Cooley
Savannah, Georgia (vicinity). View of Fort McAllister and Cooley's photographic tent
1864
1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-cwpb-03484 (digital file from original neg. of left half) LC-DIG-cwpb-03483 (digital file from original neg. of right half)
 
LL/36097

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LL/42994
George N. Barnard
Sudley Church on hill, and the remains of the Sudley Sulphur Spring house on the rigfht, Bull Run Creek, Cathapin Run, VA
1862, March
Albumen print
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Ref: 00956v
 
LL/42994 [Further details available]

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LL/42986
Unidentified photographer
Our Photographer, Manassas, VA
1862, 4 July
Albumen print
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Ref: 00167u
 
LL/42986 [Further details available]

21 of 62
LL/42998
Unidentified photographer
Photographer's wagon and developing tent, Cold Harbor VA
1864-1865
Albumen print
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Ref: 01728v
 
LL/42998 [Further details available]

22 of 62
LL/42999
Unidentified photographer
Photographer, wagon, observation tower, Bermuda Hundred, VA
1864
Albumen print
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Ref: 01831u
 
LL/42999 [Further details available]

23 of 62
LL/50715
Thomas C. Roche
Civil War Photographers Van
1861-1865 (ca)
Photograph, detail
 
Private collection of Clark and Joan Worswick
 
LL/50715

24 of 62
LL/35266
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Timothy O'Sullivan's ambulance wagon and portable darkroom used during the King Survey rolls across the sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.
1867
Albumen print
 
National Archives and Records Administration
Call Number: LOT 7096, no. 107
 
LL/35266 [Further details available]

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LL/35226
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Timothy O'Sullivan's ambulance wagon and portable darkroom used during the King Survey rolls across the sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.
1867
 
National Archives and Records Administration
77-KS-346O
 
LL/35226

26 of 62
LL/34787
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Shifting Sand-Mounds
1869, June
Magazine illustration
 
Google Books
 
LL/34787 [Further details available]

27 of 62
LL/13882
T.A. Aldrich
Backmark on a stereocard showing a photographic waggon.
n.d.
Stereoview, detail
 
Jefferson Stereoptics
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. August 29th & Thurs. August 31st, 2006, # 06-3, Lot 887)
 
LL/13882

28 of 62
LL/35887
H. Gurlitz
Harry Gurlitz's Photograph Gallery
1860s (ca)
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Laddy Kite
 
LL/35887

29 of 62
LL/11455
Carleton E. Watkins
B 3542. Primitive Mining. the Rocker. Calaveras Co., Cal.
[New Boudoir Series]
n.d.
Boudoir card
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (47 / 186)
 
LL/11455

30 of 62
LL/27725
Carleton E. Watkins
Railroad Ferry "Solano" with Watkin's Photo Wagon
n.d.
Albumen print, mammoth
15 x 22 in
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 92)
 
LL/27725 [Further details available]

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LL/27726
Carleton E. Watkins
Railroad Ferry "Solano" with Watkin's Photo Wagon (detail)
n.d.
Albumen print, mammoth
15 x 22 in
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 92)
 
LL/27726 [Further details available]

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LL/37141
C.R. Savage
C.R. Savage's photo wagon in the desert, south of St. George Utah
1860s (?)
Stereocard
 
Private collection of Bill Lee
 
LL/37141

33 of 62
LL/37142
C.R. Savage
C.R. Savage's photo wagon in the desert, south of St. George Utah.
1860s (?)
Stereocard, detail
 
Private collection of Bill Lee
 
LL/37142

34 of 62
LL/37788
William Henry Jackson
104. Rocks near Platte Canyon.
[Hayden Geological Survey of the Territories]
n.d.
Stereoview
 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
 
LL/37788 [Further details available]

35 of 62
LL/37789
William Henry Jackson
104. Rocks near Platte Canyon.
[Hayden Geological Survey of the Territories]
n.d.
Stereoview, detail
 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
 
LL/37789 [Further details available]

36 of 62
LL/37871
William Henry Jackson
621. Red Sandstones near Platte Canon.
1870
Carte de visite, detail
 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
 
LL/37871 [Further details available]

37 of 62
LL/37872
William Henry Jackson
621. Red Sandstones near Platte Canon.
1870
Carte de visite, detail
 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
 
LL/37872 [Further details available]

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LL/61347
Alexander Gardner
Photographic outfit, 309 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.
[Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division]
1867 (published)
Stereocard
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s00027 (digital file from original photo, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s00027 (digital file from original photo, back) LC-USZ6-4358 (b&w film copy neg. of full stereo) LC-USZ6-15 (b&w film copy neg. of half stereo), Call Number: LOT 2775, no. 27 [item] [P&P]
 
LL/61347

39 of 62
LL/61348
Alexander Gardner
Photographic outfit, 309 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.
[Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division]
1867 (published)
Stereocard, detail
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s00027 (digital file from original photo, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s00027 (digital file from original photo, back) LC-USZ6-4358 (b&w film copy neg. of full stereo) LC-USZ6-15 (b&w film copy neg. of half stereo), Call Number: LOT 2775, no. 27 [item] [P&P]
 
LL/61348

40 of 62
LL/58642
Theodore Lilienthal
Theo. Lilienthal Photo Wagon on Canal Street, New Orleans
[New Orleans Scenery]
n.d.
Stereoview
 
Cowan's Auctions, Inc
Wes Cowan Stereoview Auction, 30 March 2015, Lot: 145
 
LL/58642 [Further details available]

41 of 62
LL/58643
Theodore Lilienthal
Theo. Lilienthal Photo Wagon on Canal Street, New Orleans
[New Orleans Scenery]
n.d.
Stereoview, detail
 
Cowan's Auctions, Inc
Wes Cowan Stereoview Auction, 30 March 2015, Lot: 145
 
LL/58643 [Further details available]

42 of 62
LL/37800
Photographer's dark wagon with black boy standing by its side
n.d.
Stereoview, hand-tinted
 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
 
LL/37800

43 of 62
LL/37801
Photographer's dark wagon with black boy standing by its side
n.d.
Stereoview, detail, hand-tinted
 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
 
LL/37801

44 of 62
LL/39411
H.H. Bennett
No. 135 Gates Ravine
[A Trip Through the Dells of the Wisconsin River]
1870s
Stereoview
 
Private collection of Ken Burkhart
 
LL/39411 [Further details available]

45 of 62
LL/39412
H.H. Bennett
No. 135 Gates Ravine
[A Trip Through the Dells of the Wisconsin River]
1870s
Stereoview, half
 
Private collection of Ken Burkhart
 
LL/39412 [Further details available]

46 of 62
LL/39413
H.H. Bennett
No. 135 Gates Ravine
[A Trip Through the Dells of the Wisconsin River]
1870s
Stereoview, detail
 
Private collection of Ken Burkhart
 
LL/39413 [Further details available]

47 of 62
LL/45342
H.H. Bennett
H.H. Bennett With Wet Plate Outfit
19th century
Gelatin silver print
 
Museum of Photographic Arts - MOPA
Gift of Jack and Beverly Waltman, Accession Number: 2008.044.008
 
LL/45342

48 of 62
LL/37826
Unidentified photographer
R.R. Bridge, Cincinnati, Ohio.
[American Views. Peoples' Series]
n.d.
Stereoview
 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
 
LL/37826 [Further details available]

49 of 62
LL/37827
Unidentified photographer
R.R. Bridge, Cincinnati, Ohio.
[American Views. Peoples' Series]
n.d.
Stereoview, detail
 
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
 
LL/37827 [Further details available]

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LL/39402
Henry Beaufoy Merlin (1830-1873) or Charles Bayless (1850-1897)
View of buildings and Beaufoy Merlin's mobile photographic studio standing in Mudgee Road, Tambaroora, New South Wales
1872 (ca)
Albumen print
6 x 9.4 ins
 
National Library of Australia
nla.pic-vn4732019
 
LL/39402 [Further details available]

51 of 62
LL/39403
Henry Beaufoy Merlin (1830-1873) or Charles Bayless (1850-1897)
Dead tree trunk with pigeoncotes suspended by local storekeepers, and the horse-drawn mobile photographic studio of Beaufoy Merlin to the left, Mudgee Road, Tambaroora, New South Wales
1872 (ca)
Albumen print
6 x 9.5 cm
 
National Library of Australia
nla.pic-vn4733862
 
LL/39403 [Further details available]

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LL/36598
A. Nott
Back of carte de visite from A. Nott's, Photograph Car
n.d.
Carte de visite, back
 
Private collection of Alan Griffiths
 
LL/36598 [Further details available]

53 of 62
LL/36599
A. Nott
Back of carte de visite from A. Nott's, Photograph Car
n.d.
Carte de visite, back, detail
 
Private collection of Alan Griffiths
 
LL/36599 [Further details available]

54 of 62
LL/36840
S.R. Miller
Back of carte de visite from S.R. Miller's, Photograph Car
n.d.
Carte de visite, back
 
Private collection of Alan Griffiths
 
LL/36840 [Further details available]

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LL/35167
Photographic van - British Army
1863, 15 December
Magazine page
 
Google Books
 
LL/35167 [Further details available]

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LL/35168
Dark tent designed by Mr. Smartt - British Army
1863, 15 December
Magazine page
 
Google Books
 
LL/35168 [Further details available]

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LL/35169
James Mudd
Mr James Mudd encounters a photographic van in Wales
1860, 15 March
Magazine page
 
Google Books
 
LL/35169 [Further details available]

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LL/35170
Unknown author
A photographic van or house on wheels
1875, 26 February
Magazine page
 
Google Books
 
LL/35170 [Further details available]

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LL/35171
Mathew Brady's Studio
Mr Brady's Photographic Van in the panic from Centreville
1863
Book page
 
Google Books
 
LL/35171 [Further details available]

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LL/35172
Unknown author
Poisoning by Cyanide of Potassium, within a Photographic Van
1861, 2 December
Magazine page
 
Google Books
 
LL/35172 [Further details available]

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LL/35173
Thomas Sutton
Wanted, a good strong photographic van upon four wheels
1874, 7 August
Magazine page
 
Google Books
 
LL/35173 [Further details available]

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Contents - Themes & Fragments
Albumen prints - Albumen prints: War
American Civil War (1861-1865) - Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War (1866)
American Civil War (1861-1865) - Animals of the American Civil War (1861-1865)
American Civil War (1861-1865) - Photographer teams and photographic vans during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Backmarks - Cartes de visite: Backs: Photograph cars
Backmarks - Introduction to the backmarks of cartes de visite
Cameras - Stereoscopic cameras
Card photographs - Card photograph types
Cartes de visite - Cartes de visite: Backs: Photograph cars
Cartes de visite - Cartes de visite: Photographica
Cartes de visite - Introduction to the backmarks of cartes de visite
Chemicals - Poisonings due to availability of photographic chemicals
Crimean War (1854-1856) - Roger Fenton: Crimean War (1854-1856)
Crimean War (1854-1856) - Roger Fenton: The artist's van
Dark tents and dark boxes - Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
Dark tents and dark boxes - Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents
Dark tents and dark boxes - Introduction to dark tents and dark boxes
Dark tents and dark boxes - Photographs of dark tents, dark boxes and photographers in the field
Dark tents and dark boxes - Sources on nineteenth century dark tents and dark boxes
Deserts and dunes - Landscape: Deserts and dunes
Deserts and dunes - Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.
Expeditions and exploration - Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
Expeditions and exploration - Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents
Expeditions and exploration - Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869)
Expeditions and exploration - Landscape surveys of the American West
Expeditions and exploration - Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.
Hand-painted photographs - Painted stereoviews
History of photography - Card photograph types
Itinerant photographers - Backmarks for railroad photograph cars
Itinerant photographers - Introduction to itinerant photographers and showmen
Itinerant photographers - Photographs of photographic vans
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869)
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Landscape surveys of the American West
Land transportation - Wagons, carts, carriages and buggies
Landscapes of North America - Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869)
Landscapes of North America - H.H. Bennett: Wisconsin Dells
Landscapes of North America - Landscape surveys of the American West
Louisiana - Introduction to photography in Louisiana
Marketing - Marketing: Signage and banners
Maryland - Introduction to photography in Maryland
Mobile studios - Backmarks for railroad photograph cars
Mobile studios - Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
Mobile studios - Contemporary sources on photographic vans
Mobile studios - Photographs of photographic vans
Mobile studios - Roger Fenton: The artist's van
Nevada - Introduction to photography in Nevada
Nevada - Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.
Ohio - Introduction to photography in Ohio
Painting on photographs - Painted stereoviews
Photographic studios - Poisonings due to availability of photographic chemicals
Photographic vans, wagons and cars - A photographic van or a house on wheels (1875)
Photographic vans, wagons and cars - Contemporary sources on photographic vans
Photographic vans, wagons and cars - Mr James Mudd encounters a photographic van in Wales (1860)
Photographic vans, wagons and cars - Photographer teams and photographic vans during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Photographic vans, wagons and cars - Photographs of photographic vans
Photographic vans, wagons and cars - Roger Fenton: The artist's van
Photographic vans, wagons and cars - Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.
Process and product - Card photograph types
Railroad photograph cars and studios on trains - Backmarks for railroad photograph cars
Railways - Backmarks for railroad photograph cars
Signage and banners - Marketing: Signage and banners
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards - Painted stereoviews
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards - Stereoview cameras
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards - Stereoviews: Photographic vans, wagons and cars
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards - Stereoviews: Photographica
Techniques - Card photograph types
Tents - Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
Tipped-in photographs and books illustrated with photographs - Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War (1866)
Travel - Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
USA - Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869)
USA - Landscape surveys of the American West
Wagon trains - Wagons, carts, carriages and buggies
Wagons, carts, carriages and buggies - Wagons, carts, carriages and buggies
War - Photography and the British Army
Wet-plate photography - Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
Wet-plate photography - Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents
Wet-plate photography - Mr James Mudd encounters a photographic van in Wales (1860)
Wet-plate photography - Photographs of dark tents, dark boxes and photographers in the field
Wisconsin - H.H. Bennett: Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin - H.H. Bennett: Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin - Introduction to photography in Wisconsin

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