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Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
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Some random images from this collection.
 
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Thomas George Mackinlay (British, 1809-1865), 1856, Study for a Picture, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79676
Francis Frith, 1857 (ca, taken) 1870s (print), [Valley of the Kings, Thebes], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69120
Henri Le Secq, 1852, [Large Figures on the North Porch, Chartres Cathedral], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6312
Walker Evans, 1936, Negro Church, South Carolina, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7467
Unidentified photographer (French), 1856 (ca), [Standing Male Nude], Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48788
Unidentified photographer, 1870 (ca), [Two Women], Tintype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78953
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Man Standing in a Courtyard [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61691
Unidentified photographer (French School), 1907-1908, [Imprint of Eusapia Palladino's Hands], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40490
Cundall & Delamotte, 1850s, Fountains Abbey. The Echo Rock, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77953
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, [The photographer], Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/17000
Le Dien & Le Gray, 1853 (ca), Pompeii, Pompey's Lane, Tomb Monument of Mamia, Salted paper print, from a waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73863
David Octavius Hill, 1866, The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland - Signing the Act of Separation and the Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh, May 1843. [Detail showing David Octavius Hill with camera], Carbon print, detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40471
Audrey, 2012, Faded Away, Pencil and collage, on photocopy of Henry Peach Robinson's photograph Fading Away, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/60384
Robert E. Peary (American, 1856-1920), 1893-1895, [Peary's Ship], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79744
Maison Prod'hom, 1860s-1870s, [Studio Portrait: Woman with Straw Basket, Algeria], Carte de visite, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/131936
Louis Pierson, 1856-1857, [Countess de Castiglione in Black Cloak, Head on Hand, Leaning at Studio Window], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40321
Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg, 1871, Barricades de la Commune, avril 71. Coin de la place Hotel de Ville & de la rue de Rivoli, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45176
Arnold Genthe, 1896-1906, Holiday Visit, Chinatown, San Francisco, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50987
Unidentified photographer (American), 1840s (late) - 1854, George Lippard, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79357
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Béni-Haçan, Architecture Hypogéene - Tombeau d'Amoneï, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73880
Unidentified photographer / Unidentified artist / Unidentified lithographer, 1890s, [Gallery of Mystery, London], Carbon print, lithograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69133
James Peter Knight, 1853-1856, In the Garden. Blenheim, Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73889
Luigi Pesce, 1858, Ruine sulla prima terrazza, Persepolis, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49834
Eadweard Muybridge, 1875, Crater of Volcano, Quetzaltenango-Guatemala, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79702
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Synagogue juive et environs, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78121
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
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man with Prosthetic Leg], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95622
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, No. 199. Draw Span of Chicago & North Western Rail Road Bridge at Clinton, Iowa, Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79878
Charles Clifford, 1853, Principal Doorway of the Carthusian Monastery, Burgos, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25996
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73939
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Boûlâk, Carrefour (Mosquée, Café, etc.), Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69259
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842, Ruins and Foreground, Acropolis, Athens, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85455
Alexander Gardner, 1865, March, Copying Maps, Photographic Headquarters, Petersburg, Virginia, Albumen print, from glass negative, detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53140
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
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), The Pride of the Forest - Calaveras Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79587
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Hospice autrichien et ancienne Église St Jean, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78125
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
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
Walker Evans, 1936, [Detail of "Negro Church, South Carolina"], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105546
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, 1 September-21 October, Amerapoora, Barracks of the Burmese Guard, Salted paper print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78024
Unknown artist (American School), 1850s, [Blind Man Wearing Dark Glasses], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40526
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Médînet-Abou (Thèbes), Constructions Postérieures - Deuxieme Cour - Galerie Nord-Ouest, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69175
J.E. Mayall, 1846-1852, [Copy of the Rosetta Stone], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/104098
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 548 Beejapoor - The Citadel - The Ananda Mahal or Harem, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90417
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
Unidentified photographer(s) (French), 1890s, [Album of Figure Studies], Album page, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48790
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
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Thebes. Palais de Karnak. Sanctuaire de granit et salle Hypostyle, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69363
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 527. Beejapoor - Ibrahim Rozah - The Mosque, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90396
Malick Sidibé, 1976, Two Men, Gelatin silver print, in original frame of reverse-painted glass, tape, cardboard, string, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61699
Unknown Artist (British School), 1855, [Hawk Perched on Gauntlet of a Falconer], Ambrotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40602
Édouard Baldus, 1861 (ca), Entrée du Robinet, [Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40499
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95766
Roger Fenton, 1855, Landing Place, Railway Stores, Balaklava, Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40535
Edward Ranney, 1994, Cantalloc, Nazca Valley, Peru, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78161
Walker Evans, 1933, [Dockworker with Straw Hat and Cigar, Cuba], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78166
Comptoir Photo de l'A. O. F. (Dakar, Senegal, processing lab), 1930s-1940s, Photo Sleeve for Negatives and Prints, Photo sleeve, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61684
Unknown artist, 1916, [X Ray, Broken Right Femur], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40547
Owen Angel, 1880 (ca), Bo Peep. Edith Barnes, [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/79537
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
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Album cover for Louis de Clercq, Voyage en Orient et en Espagne Vols 3 & 4, Album cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78108
Various artists/makers, 1850, Lewis Cass, [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/131197
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Nubie. Vue Cavalière de la Seconde Cataracte, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69365
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69454
Unidentified photographer, 1905 (ca), [Alfred Stieglitz Photographing on a Bridge], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40316
Auguste Mestral, 1851 (ca), [Sculpture of Virgin and Child, Notre Dame, Paris], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/37302
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, [Arch of the Argentarii, or, Goldsmith's Gate, Rome], Albumen print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73855
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
Louis-Rémy Robert, 1856 (ca), [Table Top Still Life with Model Cathedral and Small Sculptures], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79858
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
Unknown Artist, 1850 (ca), San Francisco, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40618
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1841, [Notre Dame Cathedral, Rose Window, North Transept], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78095
Félix Teynard, 1851, Deuxième Cataracte, Rocher d'Abouçir, Rapides et Ilots Granitiques, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69157
Horatio Ross, 1856 (ca), [Stags Heads - Dibedale], [Ross Family Album], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40362
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Musician Playing Triangle], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95595
Elizabeth Buehrmann (American, born 1886), 1900s-1910s, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer, Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45172
Eugène Druet (French, 1868-1917), 1898 (before), [The Clenched Hand], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40554
Alphonse Bertillon, 1901-1908, [Album of Paris Crime Scenes], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40521
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Ie Station. Jésus est condamné à mort. Une cour intérieure de la caserne turque où la tradition place l'endroit du prêtoire où Jésus fut jugé, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78149
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. The High Street with John Knox's House, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69478
Edmond Bacot, 1852-1854, Haut de Portail, Côté de la Place, Cathédrale de Rouen, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79814
Alfred Stieglitz, 1900-1901 (taken) 1903-1904 (print), The Street, Fifth Avenue, Photogravure, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45164
Benneville Lloyd Singley (American, Union Township, Pennsylvania 1864-1938 Meadville, Pennsylvania), 1850s-1910, Tower of London, London, England, Stereoview, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115290
Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg, 1844 (ca), Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/119280
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95784
William Langenheim, 1846-1847 (ca), William and Sophia Palmer Langenheim, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92018
John Beasly Greene, 1855-1856 (ca), [Bank of the Rhumel, near Constantine, Algeria], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69341
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), [Trees in Calaveras Grove and Views of Yosemite, California], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79563
Edmond Bacot, 1852-1854, Portail de la Calende, Rouen Cathédral, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/128058
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, December - 1858, January, Beekinpully: Permaul's Swing at Mariammah Covil, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/59095
Charles François Daubigny, 1852 (ca), The Hamlet of Optevoz, Charcoal and lead white, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/130002
David Smith, 1932-1935, Waterfront Scene with Collaged Elements: Reclining Woman, Self-Portrait],, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6349
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1840s (ca), [Daguerreotype Plate Box], Storage, linden wood, plated iron, iron-gall ink, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85450
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Bromus Maximus, Genoa - Bromus scaberrimus, [Album di disegni fotogenici - The Bertoloni Album, Leaf 8 Recto], Photogenic drawing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40624
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
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), XIVe Station. Le corps de Jésus est deposé dans le tombeau. Monument du St Sépulcre où le corps du Christ a été enseveli., Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78131
Unknown Artist (American School), 1865, 20 April, [Broadside for Capture of Booth, Surratt, and Herold, April 20, 1865], Printed sheet with three albumen silver prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40586
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), The Three Graces Seen Through the Bryant and Seward Calaveras Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79626
Unidentified photographer, 1850s (late), [Railroad Wipers], Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78158
Francis Frith, 1870 (ca), [Egyptian Obelisk, "Cleopatra's Needle," in Alexandria, Egypt], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69126
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-March, The Inner Facade of the Gateway of the East Gopuram, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78039
John Moran, 1871, Tropical Scenery, Cathedral, Cartagena, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95802
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95789
Roger Fenton, 1856 (probably), [Landscape with Clouds, II], Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6323
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
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
John Dillwyn Llewelyn, 1853-1856, [Emma Charlotte Dillwyn Llewelyn's Album], Photograph album, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40513
John Moran, 1871, Tropical Scenery, Limon Bay - Low Tide, [Darien Expedition], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40467
Various artists/makers, 1850, Henry Clay, [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/131195
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Unidentified Boy in Dark Suit], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79866
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
Paul Henry (French, 1848-1905) / Prosper Henry (French, 1849-1903), 1885 (ca), Nebuleuse de la Lyre, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79794
Jean Leon Gerome (1824-1904), 1871, Prayer in the Mosque, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/66609
Henry Fox Talbot, 1835 or 1839, [the Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey], Photogenic drawing negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6303
Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg, 1844 (ca), Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/35502
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Enciente du Palais - Détailes de Sculptures au Point N, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69204
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, 1933, People in Downtown Havana, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78171
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Entrée de l'Église du St. Sépulcre, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78109
   

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