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Unidentified photographer / artist, 1851, [Plate 7 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Fourth to Fifth Streets], Advertisement, Library Company of Philadelphia, LL/51039
1851, Book cover for Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations 1851: Reports by the Juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided, vol. II, (Spicer Brothers), Book cover, Rijksmuseum, LL/79282
Le Gray & Mestral, 1851, Poitiers (Vienne) - Façade ouest, église Notre-Dame-la-Grande [West front of the church of Notre-Dame-la-Grande, Poitiers], Waxed paper negative, Musée d'Orsay, LL/76176
Alphonse de Brebisson, 1851, Ruines du Chateau de Falaise, Normandie, [Album Photographique de l"Artiste et de l'Amateur], Blanquart Evrard process print, Archive Farms, LL/129661
C.M. Ferrier & F. von Martens, 1851, Cathar with an eagle of Hardman & Co., [Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 in London], Photograph, Rijksmuseum, LL/76952
C.M. Ferrier & F. von Martens, 1851, Interior of the Great Exhibition, [Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 in London], Photograph, Rijksmuseum, LL/76948
C.M. Ferrier & F. von Martens, 1851, Vaas of Atoine Vechte for Hunt & Roskill, [Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 in London], Photograph, Rijksmuseum, LL/76953
Hugh Owen, 1851, Ivory throne from India exhibited at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations of 1851 in London, [Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations 1851 : reports by the juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided Vol. III], Salt pressure, Rijksmuseum, LL/112430
Hugh Owen, 1851, Maliënkolder, helmet and swords from India, [Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 in London], Salt print, Rijksmuseum, LL/76951
Hugh Owen, 1851, Embroidered saddle blanket from Turkey, [Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 in London], Photograph, Rijksmuseum, LL/76950
Hugh Owen, 1851, Embroidered saddle from India, [Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 in London], Photograph, Rijksmuseum, LL/76949
Hugh Owen, 1851, Embroidered saddle from India, [Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 in London], Photograph, Rijksmuseum, LL/76947
J. Hastings (Peoria), 1851, Business directory advert for "J. Hastings, Resident Daguerrian Artist, Colored Daguerreotype Miniatures Taken in a Superior Style", Advert, Peoria Historical Society, LL/68734
Unidentified photographer, 1851, Photograph of engravings made for a presentation item awarded by Henry Grinnell who financed a rescue expedition to locate Franklin and his crew, Albumen print, Private collection of Richard Lee Bland, LL/91278
Unidentified photographer, 1851, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations 1851, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park (London, UK), Photograph, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/76877
Unidentified photographer, 1851, Four Nisenan leaders (back row) with Treaty Commissioners (L-R in front) George W. Barbour, Oliver Meredith Wozencraft, Redick McKee, Daguerreotype, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/67871
Unidentified photographer, 1851, Southeast corner of Fourth and Olive Streets including W.H. Markam Druggist and Thomas Easterly photography studio, Photograph, Missouri History Museum, LL/69827
Unidentified photographer (British), 1851, [Victor Alexander Bruce (1849-1917), 1st Son of the 8th Earl of Elgin (Canada)], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/124148
Alphonse Fortier, 1851 (taken) 1853 (ca, published), Porche de St Germain l'Auxerrois a Paris 1851, decoration a fresques de M.V Mottez 1846, [Souvenirs Photographiques, pl. 12 published by Blanquart-Evrard ca. 1853], Salt print, Private collection of Alain Masson, LL/49597
J.E. Mayall, 1851, The Transept of the Great Exhibition, Engraving, from a daguerreotype, Archive Farms, LL/112682
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1851, Pathological Anatomy of Bromine-poisoning, Magazine page, Google Books, LL/35195
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1851, Illustrated title page for "Official Descriptive and illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition 1851" (London: Spicer Brothers, W. Clowes and Sons), Title page, illustrated, Google Books, LL/34643
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1851, Title page for "Official Descriptive and illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition 1851" (London: Spicer Brothers, W. Clowes and Sons), Title page, Google Books, LL/34644
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1851, A Positive Photograph, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/34838
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1851, A Negative Photograph, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/34839
Marcus Aurelius Root, 1851, [Plate 7 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Fourth to Fifth Streets], Advertisement, {detail), Library Company of Philadelphia, LL/51041
Richard Beard, 1851, 292 Beard, Richard, 85 King William Street, City - Producer and Patentee, Book page, Google Books, LL/34646
Samuel Broadbent, 1851, [Plate 7 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Fourth to Fifth Streets], Advertisement, (detail), Library Company of Philadelphia, LL/51040
Unidentified daguerreotypist / D. Pound (engraver), 1851, H.R.H. Prince Albert, Engraving, from a daguerreotype, Archive Farms, LL/112684
Unidentified daguerreotypist / T. Hollis (engraver), 1851, Collection of Canadian and Van Dieman's Land Timber [The Great Exhibition], Engraving, from a daguerreotype, Archive Farms, LL/112685
William A. Pratt (Richmond, VA), 1851, Mr. Pratt's Gallery at Richmond, VA - Coloring Daguerreotypes, Magazine page, Google Books, LL/35165