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Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
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Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95788
Louis Pierson, 1861-1865, [Empress Eugénie as an Odalisque], Albumen silver print, hand-painted, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40353
Gustave Le Gray, 1857, [Group near the Mill at Petit-Mourmelon], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40578
Edward Ruscha, 1967, Royal Road Test, Page layout, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48199
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Musician Playing Triangle], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95595
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, [Old Royal High School, Calton Hill, Edinburgh], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69444
Unidentified photographer (British), 1855-1860, [Botanical Specimen: Fern], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79715
George Bridges, 1851, [The Photographer before his Tent on the Site of the Pyramid of Khafre (Chephren)], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79827
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Unidentified Boy in Dark Suit], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79866
John Moran, 1871, Tropical Scenery, Darien Harbor, Chipigana, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95800
Arnold Genthe, 1895-1908, The Vegetable Peddler, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50989
Maxime Du Camp, 1849-1850, Intérieur du Temple de Khons, à Karnac, Thèbes, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78156
John Moran, 1871, Tropical Scenery, View Near Chipigana, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95801
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-March, Outer Prakarum on the North Side of the Temple of the God Sundareshwara, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78041
Alphonse Bertillon, 1901-1908, [Album of Paris Crime Scenes], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40519
J.A. Palmer, 1882, Back label for "The Wilde Woman of Aiken", [Aiken and Vicinity], Label, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113885
Malick Sidibé, 1976, Two Men, Gelatin silver print, in original frame of reverse-painted glass, tape, cardboard, string, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61699
Alphonso Lisk-Carew, 1905-1925 (ca), Bundoo Girls - Sierra Leone, Postcard, photomechanical, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61681
J.E. Mayall, 1846-1852, [Copy of the Rosetta Stone], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/104098
Walker Evans, 1933, [Man on Crutches, Havana], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78168
Auguste Salzmann, 1854, Jérusalem, Enceinte du Temple, Moulure judaïque formant pied-droit de l'une des portes romaines, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79845
Alexander Gardner, 1865-1866, Album cover for "Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1", Album cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40583
Benjamin Cowderoy, 1846, [The Reading Establishment], Salted paper print, from paper negative (right), Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49883
Edward Steichen, 1907, Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz holding a copy of the journal Camera Work, Autochrome, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/65382
Unidentified photographer (American), 1864, Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance", Carte de visite, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/101672
Gustave Le Gray, 1856, The Empress Eugénie at Prayer, Saint-Cloud [Empress Eugénie on a Prie-dieu], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40548
Unidentified photographer, 1850s (late) - 1860s, [Man Demonstrating Patent Model for Sash Window], Tintype, with applied colour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/131805
Calvert Richard Jones, 1850 (ca), [Contact sheet of four group portraits in a doorway], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69504
Maxime Du Camp, 1849-1851, Palais de Karnak, sculptures extérieures du sanctuaire de granit., Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73891
John Moran, 1871, Tropical Scenery, Cathedral, Cartagena, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95802
Samuel A. Bemis, 1840-1841, [View in New Hampshire], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40388
Antoine Claudet, 1846-1852, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90455
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874, The Passing of King Arthur, [Idylls of the King], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77585
Unidentified photographer, 1854 (ca), [Surveyor], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95752
Unidentified photographer, 1845, [Hutchinson Family Singers], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95267
Louis Pierson, 1863, 10 February, Portrait of Countess Virginia Oldoini di Castiglione., Photograph on glass, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/114589
G.R. Lambert & Co., 1870s, Backmark for "G. R. Lambert and Co. - Singapore, Carte de visite, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/129924
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Palais - Salle Hypostyle - Décoration de la Paroi Intérieure au Point L, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69232
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d'Athôr - Sanctuaire Placé a l'Angle Sud-Ouest de la Plateforme Inférieure, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69263
Francis Frith, 1857 (ca), Distant View of the Cedars of Lebanon, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/67554
Henry Fox Talbot, 1846 (ca), [Nos. 170-176 Regent Street, London], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79855
Walker Evans, 1933, [Four Seat Carriage in the Collection of Oliver Jennings], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92005
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, [Untitled], [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90413
Édouard Baldus, 1856 (ca), [Plaster Model of an Ornamental Oeil-de-Boeuf for the New Louvre], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40523
Maison Prod'hom, 1860s-1870s, Backmark for "Atelier Photographique - Mr & Mme PROD'HOM - 12, Rue Damrémont, 12 - En face la Pharmacie HOUSSET. - BÔNE - Algérie", Carte de visite, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/131937
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874, September, And Enid Sang, [Idylls of the King], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77596
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/78139
Jeremiah Gurney, 1857 (ca), [Two Girls in Identical Dresses], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40549
Vicomte Joseph Vigier, 1850, Vallé de Lur prise du chemin de Sasie à St-Sauveur, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79825
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), The Mother of the Forest From the Father of the Forest - Calavaras Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79621
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, Album cover for Views in India - Beejapoor, Album cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90394
Herbert Bayer, 1928, Pont Transbordeur, Marseilles, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/58912
Maxime Du Camp, 1849, December - 1850, January, Armes et ustensiles du Kaire, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69387
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, George Gilfillan and Samuel Brown, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73899
Édouard Baldus, 1861 (ca), Le Moine ["The Monk," La Ciotat], [Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40503
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
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Le Kaire, Mosquée d'Amrou - Intérieur - Côté du Sanctuaire, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69201
Ernest Benecke, 1852, [Children from the Village of Kalabshah, Nubia], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40538
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95790
Unidentified photographer (French School), 1906, April - July, [Divan Inside the Cabinet Used for Séances at the Institut Général Psychologique], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40487
Robert E. Peary (American, 1856-1920), 1893-1895, [Peary's Ship], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79744
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1843, 70. Mosquée Naçeriyeh, au Kaire; M. el Bordéni, [Monuments arabes], Lithograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113763
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95759
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, 530. Beejapoor - The Ibrahim Rozah - Window & portion of carved stone Wall around the tomb, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90399
Antoine Claudet, 1846-1852, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90453
Paul Strand, 1923 (ca), Rebecca, New York, Palladium print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6350
Walker Evans, 1936, Window Display of Photographer's Studio, Birmingham, AL, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/33253
Man Ray, 1933, Meret Oppenheim at the Printing Wheel, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78183
Louis Pierson, 1861-1867 (taken) 1895-1910 (print), [The Opera Ball], Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40368
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 18: Aggression, wickedness, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79632
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
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Assouan, Cimetière Arabe - Inscription Funéraires, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69224
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95771
Charles Marville, 1877-1878, Candelabre console avec inscription des noms des rues (Candelabra with Street Signs) (Avenue de l'Opéra), Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53884
Charles François Daubigny, 1862, Ducks in the Marshes, Cliché-verre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/63358
Unidentified photographer, 1840-1845, [Shark Egg Case], Photogenic drawing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40405
Louis-Rémy Robert, 1852 (ca), [The Large Tree at La Verrerie, Romesnil], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7444
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), El-Kab (Éléthya), Architecture Hypogéenne - Tombeau de Phapé - Sculptures Pientes, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69252
Lewis Dowe, 1860s, [Dowe's Photograph Rooms, Sycamore, Illinois], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95722
Suzuki Shin'ichi I, 1870s, [Woman in Traditional Japanese Garment Photographed from Behind], Albumen silver print, from glass negative with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78058
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 547 Beejapoor - The Citadel - Ruins at the back of the Harem, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90416
Maxime Du Camp, 1850, Colosses du Ramesséum [Portique et Colosse brisé du Rhamesseum, à Chébea (Tombeau d'Osymandiad) - Portico and Fallen Colossus of the Ramesseum, Tomb of Ozymandias (Ramesses the Great), Thebes], [Egypte, Nubie, Syrie: Paysages et Monuments], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40397
Francis Picabia (French, Paris 1879–1953 Paris), 1915, Here, This Is Stieglitz Here, Ink, graphite, and cut-and-pasted painted and printed papers on paperboard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/128078
Goodwin & Company (issued), 1887, Burdock, 2nd Base, Boston, [Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50952
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1840s (ca), [Daguerreotype Plate Box], Storage, linden wood, plated iron, iron-gall ink, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85450
Unidentified photographer / artist, 2012, Publicity for Faking it: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 11, 2012-January 27, 2013), Publicity, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49190
McPherson and Oliver, 1860s, Our Scouts and Guides in 1863 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95716
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 63: Expression of terror, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79667
Charles Nègre, 1855, [Plaster Casts of Bishops' Miters, South Porch, Chartres], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40491
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 52: Voluntary retraction of the lower lip, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79658
Suzuki Shin'ichi I, 1870s, [Two Japanese Women in Traditional Dress with Fan and Screen], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, with applied colour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79787
John Thomson, 1865, His Majesty Prabat Somdet Pra parameñdr Mahá Mongkut, First King of Siam, in State Costume, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40545
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 3: The face of an old man… photographed in repose., [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79640
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
Owen Angel, 1880 (ca), The Right Worshipful The Mayor of Exeter. Henry Spencer Follett, [Follett Family Album of Children Costumed for a Fancy Dress Ball], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79533
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
Unidentified photographer, 1880s, [Dragoman in Temple], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79681
Unidentified photographer, 1870s, Cedars of Lebanon, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/67556
Unidentified photographer, 1862, Union Soldier With Rifle, Ambrotype, ruby glass, 1/6 plate, with applied colour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50241
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), VIe Station. Ste Véronique essuie la face sanglante de Jésus. Aucune marque extérieure n'indique cette station. La tradition la place au pied du petit escalier, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78148
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95761
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1860 (ca), Self-Portrait in the Garden, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/107420
T. Lux Feininger, 1929 (ca), [3 Couples Dancing on the Roof of the Bauhaus], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48874
Various artists/makers, 1850, Millard Fillmore, [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/131194
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
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, No. 193a. Old Ponton Bridge at Prairie du chien, Wisconsin, Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79874
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1850-1858, Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40552
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69451
Unidentified photographer, 1915 (ca, taken) 2015 (print), Two Children, Indoors [Saint Louis, Senegal], Inkjet print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61688
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
Man Ray, 1930s, 30 Rockefeller Plaza (RCA Building), Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78181
Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, 1859 (ca), Esquimau avec sa tente, Stereoview, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/126028
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Nubie. Grand Temple d'Isis, A Philoe. Vue générale prise du nord, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69382
   

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