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Unidentified photographer / artist, 1879, American nickel plated Stereoscope, patented by Hilarius Pattberg, April 29, 1879., Stereoscope, Stereographica - Antique Photographica, LL/11003
1879, Book cover for Rev. J. (James or Jacques) Issaverdenz, 1879, The Island of San Lazzaro - Venice, (Venice: Armenian typografy of San Lazzaro), Book cover, Collection of Michael G. Jacob, LL/86589
1879, Title page for Rev. J. (James or Jacques) Issaverdenz, 1879, The Island of San Lazzaro - Venice, (Venice: Armenian typografy of San Lazzaro), Book pages, Collection of Michael G. Jacob, LL/86590
Charles Eugene de Ujfalvy de Mezo-Kovesd, 1879, Plate from Expédition scientifique franthaise en Russie, en Sibérie et dans le Turkestan. Atlas anthropologique des peuples du Ferghanah, first edition, Albumen print, Bonhams - London, LL/24124
Dr. Charles Forbes (1844-1917), 1879, Photomicrograph, Negative, collodion on glass, George Eastman Museum, LL/69966
Dr. Charles Forbes (1844-1917), 1879, Trans-section of an ovary, Negative, collodion on glass, George Eastman Museum, LL/75627
Dr. Charles Forbes (1844-1917), 1879, Sheep Tick, Negative, collodion on glass, George Eastman Museum, LL/75626
Dr. Charles Forbes (1844-1917), 1879, Trs. sect. Rattan, Negative, collodion on glass, George Eastman Museum, LL/75625
Dr. Charles Forbes (1844-1917), 1879, Dog Flea, Negative, collodion on glass, George Eastman Museum, LL/75624
Marc Ferrez, 1879, Obras do Abastecimento d'Agua do Rio de Janeiro, Reservatorio de D. Pedro II (Morro do Pedregulho), vista interior da Caixa em construccao, Albumen print, J. Paul Getty Museum, LL/124150
Unidentified photographer, 1879, Ball at the Windsor Hotel, Montréal, in Honour of the Marquis of Lorne [Montréal, Quebec], Photographic print, composite, Library and Archives Canada, LL/46635
Unidentified photographer, 1879, Lucretia Mott in her 87th year 1879, Carte de visite, Classic Photographics, LL/48710
Unidentified photographer, 1879, Truth for authority, not authority for truth. Lucretia Mott in her 87th year 1879, Carte de visite, back, Classic Photographics, LL/48711
John Henry Parker, 1879, Book title page for John Henry Parker, 1879, Historical photographs : A catalogue of three thousand three hundred photographs of antiquities in Rome and Italy, with dates, historical or approximative, and a general index, (London: Edward Stanford), Book title page, INHA - Institut national d'histoire de l'art, LL/101415