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Unidentified photographer (American School), 1850s (late), [Railroad Wipers], Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40410
Giacomo Caneva, 1860s-1870s, [Tree in Formal Garden Outside Palazzo], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54199
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Édifice en Ruines - Sculptures du la Paroi Intèrieure, en U, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69244
Lewis Carroll, 1860, Edith Liddell Seated Beside a Vase of Foxgloves, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69482
Charles Clifford, 1853, Latona Fountain in the Gardens of La Granja, Segovia, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25995
Herbert G. Ponting, 1927, [Distortograph: William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, Mayor of Chicago], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54284
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Two Women in Front of a Thatch-Roof House [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61690
Félix Bonfils, 1870 (ca), Temple d'Andour, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115896
Sebastiano Tassinari (Italian, 1814-1888), 1839-1840, [Photogenic Drawing from Leaf], Salted paper prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/91576
Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard, 1840s, The Laundry, Albumen paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/122382
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Palais - Salle Hypostyle - Colonnade Centrale - Décoration d'un Fut, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69230
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, 1854-1856, [Album of photographs], Album, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40348
Alfred Stieglitz, 1915, From the Back Window, 291, Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6341
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Vue Générale des Ruines Prise du Sud-Est, en T, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69190
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73940
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95760
Félix Bonfils, 1880 (ca), Vue générale de Bethany - General view of Bethany, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115906
Émile Gsell, 1866, Prisonniers conduits par un Mata, Cochinchine [Prisoners Conducted by a Mata, Cochinchina], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40457
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Entrée d'une caserne turque. C'est a cette porte que les pèlerins font les prières de la 1e Station. N'ayant pas la permission d'entrer dans la caserne, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78146
Bruno Braquehais, 1850s, [Reclining Female Nude Posed as Danae], Daguerreotype, with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/111370
Jeremiah Gurney, 1857 (ca), [Two Girls in Identical Dresses], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40549
B.L. Spackman, 1859-1862, [Construction Site Scaffolding with Bystanders at the 1862 International Exhibition at South Kensington, England], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/51642
Baron Raimund von Stillfried, 1870s, Fille de Shanghai [Young Chinese Woman from Shanghai], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40506
Carleton E. Watkins, 1863, Indian Sweat House, Mendocino County, California, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105777
A.J. Russell, 1863-1865, Laborers at Quartermaster's Wharf, Alexandria, Virginia, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50254
John Moran, 1871, Tropical Scenery, View Near Chipigana, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95801
Various artists/makers, 1850, William H. Prescott, [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/131192
Lai Afong, 1869 (ca), [Group of People Posing near River], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77990
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), The Mammoth Grove Hotel from the Grove - Calaveras, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79620
Alphonse Bertillon, 1894, Luce. Maximilien. 36 ans, né le 13/3/58 à Paris VIIe. Artiste-peintre. Anarchiste. 6/7/94., Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78465
Félix Bonfils, 1880 (ca), Panorama de Jaffa, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115897
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 62: Terror, semiprofile, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79653
Robert E. Peary (American, 1856-1920), 1893-1895, [Icebergs], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79741
James Wallace Black, 1860, Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40553
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95777
Charles Nègre, 1850s-1860s, Le Midi de la France, Album cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79674
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. État actuel du dôme, du St. Sépulcre et Minaret d'Omar, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78102
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, May-June, Elliot Marbles and Other Sculpture from the Central Museum Madras: Group 26, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78040
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 540. Beejapoor - Jumma Musjid, the Mihrab or Altar, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90409
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
Auguste Salzmann, 1854, Jérusalem, Casque trouvé dans le Jourdain, 1, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79849
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Esneh (Latopolis), Construction Ensablée - Paroi Extérieure - Corniche et Sculptures, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69187
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Louksor (Thèbes), Vue Générale des Ruines, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69186
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 537. Beejapoor - The Jumma Musjid, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90406
Alfred Stieglitz, 1903, January, Camera Work, No. 1, Book cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45160
Louis Pierson, 1863, 10 February, Portrait of Countess Virginia Oldoini di Castiglione., Photograph on glass, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/114589
John Beasly Greene, 1853-1854, Etude de Palmiers, Bords du Nil, Kalabschi, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69346
Unidentified photographer, 1870 (ca), [Two Women], Tintype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78953
Unidentified photographer, 1861-1865, [Union Army Officer], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54278
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Two Young Women Reclining [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61692
Various artists/makers, 1850, John Charlie Freemont, [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/131200
T. Lux Feininger, 1929 (ca), [3 Couples Dancing on the Roof of the Bauhaus], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48874
Walker Evans, 1936, [Floyd and Lucille Burroughs on Porch, Hale County, Alabama], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6366
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Gournah (Thèbes), Colosses (Celui de Droite, Dit de Memnon), Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69185
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Avenue de Sphinx - Vue Générale Prise du Point G, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69239
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Two People Holding Girl in Water], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95590
Gustave Le Gray, 1856 (ca), Tree Study, Forest of Fontainebleau, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40588
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, [Arch of the Argentarii, or, Goldsmith's Gate, Rome], Albumen print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73855
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Djerf-Hocein (Tutzis), Hemi-Spéos, Colosses de la Partie Extérieure, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69219
William Langenheim, 1853-1855 (ca), William Langenheim, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92010
Owen Angel, 1880 (ca), Cabinet card album cover, [Follett Family Album of Children Costumed for a Fancy Dress Ball], Album cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79532
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95759
Herbert Bayer, 1928, Pont Transbordeur, Marseilles, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/58912
Edmond Bacot, 1852-1854, Portail de la Calende, Rouen Cathédral, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/128058
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, No. 186. Chicago, Burlington & Northern Rail Road Bridge Across Mouth of La Croix River, Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79880
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852, Esneh (Latopolis), Construction Ensablée - Architrave, Fûts et Chapiteaux [Structure Covered with Sand - Architrave, Column Shafts, and Capitals, Esna (Latopolis)], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40346
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Assouan (Syène), Carrières de Granit - Ancien Système d'Extraction, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69267
Edmond Bacot, 1852-1854, Tourelle du Palais de Justice, Rouen, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79807
William Henry Brown (American, Charleston, 1808-1883), 1844, Silhouette Portrait of John Marshall, Lithograph, with tint stone, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/16992
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, 1 September-21 October, Amerapoora, Palace of the White Elephant, Salted paper print, from waxed (?) paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78017
Alexandre Bertrand, 1850s, [Woman with Four Children], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92009
Félix Thiollier, 1910 (ca), [Group of Adults and Children on a Village Street in the Auvergne], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95086
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), [Hiram Powers's Sculpture of the Greek Slave], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/121598
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, Spring, House of Sallust, Vesuvius behind, Pompeii, Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25990
Lai Afong, 1869 (ca), Chui Nang opposite Kien-yang city, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77994
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), [Studio Photographer at Work], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95715
E.J. Bellocq, 1912 (ca, taken) 1980s-1990s (print), [Storyville portrait], Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/127288
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Dendérah (Tentyris), Mammisi - Décoration Extérieure de la Face Sud, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69188
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95788
Unidentified photographer, 1839-1845, Halle des Capucins, Marché aux Fleurs, Marseille, France, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/131264
Henry P. Bosse, 1888, Second Ave Rock Island, Ill. during high water, Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79881
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), IVe Station. Jésus rencontre sa très Sainte Mère. Cette station est située a quelques pas a peine de la précédente. La tradition la place a l'arcade que l'on voit représentée ici, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78147
Dominique Roman, 1855 (ca), [Model of a P.L.M. Locomotive], Paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45177
Charles Williams (British, active 1870s), 1878, 27 July, Passage of Matter Through Matter, Carte de visite, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79690
William Langenheim, 1849-1850 (ca), Frederick Langenheim, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92011
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Médînet-Abou (Thèbes), Construction Antérieures - Entrée Principale, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69206
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man with Broom and Dustpan], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95608
Unknown Artist (American School), 1910 (ca), [Man with Dead Raccoons], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40599
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Lace (enlarged detail), [Album di disegni fotogenici - The Bertoloni Album, Leaf 13 Recto], Photogenic drawing, solar microscope, detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40626
Gates Bros., 1865, [The Narrow Pass - 4th Glen], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95793
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1840s (ca), [Daguerreotype Plate Box], Storage, linden wood, plated iron, iron-gall ink, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85449
Unidentified photographer, 1854 (ca), [Surveyor], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95752
J.A. Palmer, 1882, Back label for "An Aesthetic Darkey", [Aiken and Vicinity], Stereoview, label, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113888
Walker Evans, 1930s, [Walker Evans], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77945
Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer (Danish, 1871-1946), 1905-1919, [Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer's Experiments in Early Aviation (1905-1919)], Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40402
Ernest Benecke, 1852, [Children from the Village of Kalabshah, Nubia], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40538
Richard Barton Hill, 1850s, [View of the City from the Ochterlony Monument, Calcutta], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40375
Unidentified photographer (American), 1850-1855, [Man whittling a stick], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/64758
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d'Athôr - Vue Générale, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69216
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), IXe Station. Jésus tombe pour la troisième fois. Le fut de colonne qui se trouve au pied du mur indique cette station., Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78133
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Sphinx a Tête Humaine et a Tête de Bélier, en Y, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69227
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Esneh, Dattiers, Sycomore et Café Sur le Bord du Nil, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69235
Alphonse Bertillon, 1891-1895, [Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40400
Félix Bonfils, 1870 (ca), Promenade des Pins à Beyrouth, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115898
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis), Pyramide de Chéphren, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69218
   

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