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Anna Atkins (British, 1799-1871) and Anne Dixon (British, 1799-1877), 1853, Cystopteris dentata, British, Cyanotype, J. Paul Getty Museum, LL/98777
Anna Atkins, 1853, Equisetum sylvaticum [collaboration between Anna Atkins and Anne Dixon], [In her book "Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns" (ca. 1860)], Cyanotype, J. Paul Getty Museum, LL/6301
Charles Marville, 1853, Uranie, Galerie De L'ecole Des Beaux Arts, A. Paris, Blanquart-Evrard Salt paper print, from a calotype negative, Chiswick Auctions, LL/115694
Gabriel Tranchard, 1853, Excavations by Victor Place in Khorsabad. The photo shows a huge gate, flanked by two human-headed bulls., Photograph, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/57372
Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866), 1853, La derniere passion de mon epoux?…voila ce qu'en dit le daguerreotype…, Lithograph, Yale University Art Gallery, LL/88674
Unidentified artist, 1853, The Anthony Prizes for the Best Daguerreotypes, Engraving, magazine illustration, Minneapolis Institute of Art - MIA, LL/54489
Unidentified artist, 1853, View of the U. S. Line of Battle Ship, Franklin and the Floating Dock. Basin and Railways at the Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. Copied from a daguerreotype January 27th, 1853, Engraving, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/86869
Unidentified photographer, 1853, Mineral Still Life, Albumenized salt print, Archive Farms, LL/64887
Unidentified photographer (French) / Unidentified artist (French), 1853, A toy rabbit with a drum, Stereoview, colour lithograph, Private collection of Paula Fleming, LL/120429
Unidentified photographer (USA, 19th century), 1853, Untitled (Portrait of a Man with a Top Hat Standing next to a Gravestone), Daguerreotype, Art Institute of Chicago, LL/114488
Charles Nègre, 1853 (taken) 1854 (print), [Italian Musicians (Pifferari) at 21 quai Bourbon, Ile Saint-Louis, Paris], Heliogravures, J. Paul Getty Museum, LL/99394
Henri-Victor Regnault (French, 1810 - 1878), Alphonse-Louis Poitevin (French, 1819 - 1882), 1853 (taken) 1855-1860 (print), Sèvres, The Seine at Meudon, Carbon print, J. Paul Getty Museum, LL/119935
Charles Nègre, 1853 (taken) 1890s (print), Joueur d'orgue de Barbarie, Paris, Collodion paper print from the original calotype negative by Charles Nègre, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/25248
Lerebours et Secretan, 1853, Catalogue des Instruments, Catalogue title page, Archive Farms, LL/112144
Robert Hunt (author), 1853, Title page for "A Manual of Photography" (third edition) by Robert Hunt (London: John Joseph Griffin & Co., 1853), Title page, Google Books, LL/34648
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1853, The apparatus for the Daguerreotype, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/34653
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1853, Camera for the collodion process, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/34655
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1853, W.C. "Sonnet to a Daguerreotype", Google Books, LL/39528
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1853, Camera for the collodion process, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/34654
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1853, The apparatus for the Daguerreotype, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/34652
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1853, Brewster stereoscope, Book illustration, Google Books, LL/34656
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1853, [Optical apparatus - unspecified], Book illustration, Google Books, LL/34650
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1853, Title page for "the Photographic Art Journal", Vol.V, 1853 (New York: W.B. Smith), Title page, Google Books, LL/34624
Alois Auer, 1853, Title page of Alois Auer "the Polygraphic Apparatus, or, The Different Departments of Art carried on in the Imperial Court and Government Printing-Office in Vienna by Louis Auer" (Vienna: Imperial Court and Government Printing Office, 1853), Title page, Google Books, LL/36174
E.K. Tenison, 1853, Mr. E. K. Tenison, of Kilbonan Castle, exhibited a number of photographs of very large size, representing views in Spain., Book page, Google Books, LL/36082
J.A. Whipple, 1853, Advert for "Daguerreotypes Taken on Paper instead of Silver Plates, with all the Beauty and Distinctiveness of Engravings. J. A. Whipple, Patentee", Advert, Archive Farms, LL/70988
Théophile Gautier, 1853, Title page for théophile Gautier "Wanderings in Spain" (London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853), Title page, Google Books, LL/36087