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Some random images from this collection.
 
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Choiselat & Ratel, 1844, 1 May, Défilé sur le Pont-Royal, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40350
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Une rue de Jérusalem et entrée du Grand Couvent, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78117
Walker Evans, 1936, [Wooden Church with Shingled Steeple, Hale County, Alabama?], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105543
Suzuki Shin'ichi I, 1870s, [Japanese Woman in Traditional Dress Posing with Cat and Instrument], Albumen silver print, from glass negative with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78066
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95772
Sebastiano Tassinari (Italian, 1814-1888), 1839-1840, [Photogenic Drawing from Leaf], Salted paper prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/91576
Auguste Salzmann, 1854, Jérusalem, Mosquée d'Omar, côté Nord, Intérieur de l'enceinte, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79841
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Louksor, Dattiers et Jardin de l'Expédition du Louksor, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69203
William Langenheim, 1846 (ca), [Mrs. Thomas Ustick Walter and Her Deceased Child], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92017
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Djébel Selséleh (Silsilis), Steles Architecturales Taillées Dans les Carriéres, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69240
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95780
Louis Hostalier (Senegal) (French, active ca. 1890-1912), 1900-1910 (ca), In Nioro (Sudan)-Wives and son of Wolof trader [A Nioro (Soudan)-Femmes et Fils de Marchand Ouolofes], Postcard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/84804
T.R. Williams, 1854, Queen Victoria Presiding at the Reopening of the Reconstructed Crystal Palace at Sydenham, Albumen print, from glass negative (copy print of a daguerreotype), Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48872
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 534. Beejapoor - Ruins of Citadel from the Road, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90400
Hippolyte Bayard, 1839 (probably), [Classical Head], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95755
Charles Moussette (French, active 1880s), 1886, 12 May, [Spiral of Lightning in a Thunderstorm], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79728
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Girl with Doll], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95592
Adolphe Braun, 1865 (ca), Pheasant and Grouse, Carbon print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/126038
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Médînet-Abou (Thèbes), Constructions Postérieures - Fragment de Sculptures Sur la Face Nord-Est, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69192
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1840s (ca), [Daguerreotype Plate Box], Storage, linden wood, plated iron, iron-gall ink, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85453
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Djirdjeh, Mosquée en Ruines Sur le Bord du Nil, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69189
Charles Sheeler, 1917, Doylestown House - Stairs from Below, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6345
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis), Pyramide de Chéops (Grande Pyramide), Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69255
Walker Evans, 1936, Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6364
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1850-1860s, [Portrait of a Youth], Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7455
Edmond Bacot, 1852-1854, Hôtel du Bourgtheroulde, Rouen, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/128060
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, No. 201. U.S. Government Bridge at Rock Island, Illinois (High Water), Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79879
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, Book cover for Photographic Views in Madura, Part III, Book cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40441
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Kôm-Ombou (Ombos), Vue Générale des Ruines, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69245
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, No. 207. Wabash Rail Road Bridge at Keokuk, Iowa, Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79872
Walker Evans, 1936, [Double-Steepled Wooden Church with Sapling Planted in Front, Alabama], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105545
Antoine Claudet, 1846-1852, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90454
Charles Williams (British, active 1870s), 1878, 27 July, Passage of Matter Through Matter, Carte de visite, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79690
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), [Hiram Powers's Sculpture of the Greek Slave], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/121598
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, September-October, Colossal Statue of Gautama Close to the North End of the Bridge, Amerapoora, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25999
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872, [The Lord Bishop of Winchester, Samuel Wilberforce], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77551
Benjamin Brecknell Turner, 1852, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, Transept, Paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40465
Unidentified photographer (French), 1850s, [Woman in Apron and Bonnet Grinding Coffee in Kitchen Setting], Daguerreotype, stereo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/120504
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Boston Lawyers or Clergymen (?)], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40622
Captain John Constantine Stanley, 1858-1861, [Spence's Hotel & St. John's Cathedral, Calcutta], [Lord and Lady Canning Family Album], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40419
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852, Séboûah, Temple, Colosse et Sphinx de la Partie Gauche de l'Avenue, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69161
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Abou Sembil, Grand Spéos - Statues Colossales, Vues de Trois-Quarts, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69205
Various artists/makers, 1850, Book cover for The Gift Book of the Republic, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, The Union and the Republic for Ever, [The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington], Book cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/131189
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Woman Holding Bird], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95606
Lai Afong, 1869 (ca), Left Road up to Yuen foo Monastery, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77992
Charles Clifford, 1853, Latona Fountain in the Gardens of La Granja, Segovia, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25995
Nadar, 1854, Nadar's Pantheon (Panthéon Nadar), Lithograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/58375
Félix Teynard, 1851 (published), Le Kaire, Mosquée Nâcéryeh, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69156
Félix Bonfils, 1870s, Caire près du Mokkatam, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115895
Minor B. Wade (American, 1874-1932), 1908, [Lynching, Russellville, Kentucky], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40482
Maxime Du Camp, 1850, March, Vue des rapides de la Seconde Cataracte, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79830
Richard Barton Hill, 1850s, [Ghulam Muhammad Mosque, Calcutta], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79671
Édouard Baldus, 1861 (ca), Arles, Cloitre St. Trophime [Cloister of Saint-Trophîme, Arles], [Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40500
Roger Fenton, 1856 (probably), [Landscape with Clouds, II], Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6323
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), Looking up Among the Sugar Pines - Calaveras Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79628
Robert Frank, 1955-1956, City Fathers, Hoboken, New Jersey, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/84503
Baron Raimund von Stillfried, 1880s, [Studio Portrait of a Japanese Man in Western Clothing], Cabinet card, with applied colouring, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78069
John Murray, 1858-1862, The Taj Mahal from the Banks of the Yamuna River, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25998
Frederick Langenheim, 1845, July, Panorama of Niagara Falls, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/64402
John Heartfield, 1934, O Tannenbaum im deutscen Raum, wie krumm sind deine õste! [Oh Christmas tree in Germany, how crooked are your branches!] (Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung), Photomechanical reproduction, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45003
Comte Frédéric Flachéron, 1849, Bas Relief from the Arch of Constantine, Rome, Paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73862
Alois Auer, 1853 (ca), [Microscopic view on an insect], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/36173
Charles Nègre, 1853 (ca), The Sons of Rachel and Walenski [Le fils de Rachel à droite, fils de Walenski], Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40493
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Souâdj, Tombeau de Mouràd-Bey - Entrée de la Mosquée, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69176
B.L. Spackman, 1859-1862, [Construction Site of the 1862 International Exhibition at South Kensington, England], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/51645
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man Drawing Bust], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95618
Unknown Artist (American School), 1850 (ca), [Blind Man and His Reader], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40557
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Musician Playing Flute], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95613
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, 1854-1856, [Album of photographs], Album, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40348
St. Memin, 1797-1798, Portrait of a Man: Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (1770-1852), Conté crayon, charcoal (?), graphite and white-chalk heightening on off-white laid paper coated with gouache, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/16998
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis), Sphinx et Pyramides, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69177
François-Edmond Fortier, 1900-1912, West Africa, young Wolof girls [Afrique Occidentale, Jeunes Filles Ouolof], Postcard, photomechanical, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61686
François Aubert, 1867, [The Scene of the Execution of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79726
A. Albaret-Dakar, 1910s, Dakar (Senegal)-Wolof women [Dakar (Sénégal)-Femmes Ouolofs], Postcard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/84803
Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1900, Fushimi Inari Taisha, Kyoto, Japan, Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78049
Jean Benyoumof, 1900-1910, Dakar-Mulatto (Senegal) [Dakar-Mulâtresse (Sénégal)], Postcard, photomechanical, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61677
Félix Bonfils, 1880 (ca), Les ponts du fleurs du chien, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115907
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), Old Dominium and Uncle Tom's Tavern. Calaveras Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79622
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 546 Beejapoor - The Citadel - The Makkah Musjid, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90415
Walker Evans, 1933, [Detail of Carriage in the Collection of Oliver Jennings], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92007
E. A. Schwerdtfeger & Co, Berlin (publisher), 1914, Ein kräftiger Zusammenstoss [A powerful collision], Gelatin silver print, postcard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/16996
Captain John Constantine Stanley, 1858-1861, [Great Sikh Gun taken at Ferozshah on the Night of December 21, 1845, Government House, Calcutta], [Lord and Lady Canning Family Album], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40418
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Environs de Fîleh, Palmier Doum sur la Rive Orientale du Nil, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69223
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, [Arch of the Argentarii, or, Goldsmith's Gate, Rome], Albumen print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73855
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Picture Gallery Photographs, Carte de visite, albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50252
Unidentified photographer (British), 1855-1860, [Botanical Specimen: Fern], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79715
C.M. Bell, 1880, Red Cloud, Cabinet card, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79793
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 21: Painful recollection and recollection or calling something to mind, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79644
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, No. 167. Raftboat "David Bronson", Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79873
John McCosh, 1848-1850, Englishman at the Entrance to a Pagoda, Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25997
Sir Francis Galton, 1883, Frontispiece of Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, Albumen print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54315
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Musician Playing Trombone], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95610
Félix Bonfils, 1870 (ca), Promenade des Pins à Beyrouth, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115898
, 1888, 9 August, Group on Petria, Lake Mahopac, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/130454
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 542. Beejapoor - Tomb of Mahomed Shah, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90411
John William "A.C." Kline (1824-1892) (publisher), 1861-1865, Jeff Davis 'Taking' Washington, Ink on paper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50777
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, 1 September - 21 October, Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/59090
Félix Bonfils, 1880 (ca), Panorama de Jaffa, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115897
Louis Pierson, 1895, [Countess de Castiglione Seated in Peasant Dress], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40320
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 36: Scornful laughter and scornful disgust, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79664
Various artists/makers, 1850, Winfield Scott, [The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington], Lithograph based on an engraving, after a daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/131193
Richard Barton Hill, 1850s, [View of the City from the Ochterlony Monument, Calcutta], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40375
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95775
Kathy Grove, 1990-1992, The Other Series (After Man Ray), Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54281
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95758
Auguste Salzmann, 1854, Jérusalem, Saint-Sépulcre, Détails de la porte, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79839
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874, September, And Enid Sang, [Idylls of the King], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77596
Charles Marville, 1858-1860, Cascade at the Mare aux biches (Does' Pond), Bois de Boulogne, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53886
Maxime Du Camp, 1850, 15 September, Hémicycle de l'enceinte des Temples, à Baâlbek [Hemicycle of the Enclosure of the Temples, Baalbek], [Egypte, Nubie, Syrie: Paysages et Monuments], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40398
   

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