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Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
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Some random images from this collection.
 
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Robert Macpherson, 1858 (or earlier), Cloaca Maxima, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73854
Owen Angel, 1880 (ca), La Figlia de Reggimento. Harriet Laura 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/79534
Cundall & Delamotte, 1850s, Fountains Abbey. The Echo Rock, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77953
Mathew B. Brady, 1860s, Mathew B. Brady's Studio Camera and Tripod, Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50258
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
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
Eugène Druet (French, 1868-1917), 1898 (before), [The Clenched Hand], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40554
David Johnson, 1855 (ca), American Barque "Jane Tudor", Conway Bay, Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6314
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-March, The Outer Prakarum, or Corridor Around the Temple of the God Sundareshawara, Albumen silver print, from dry collodion on glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78036
Edmond Bacot, 1852-1854, Bas du Portail, Côté de la Place, Cathédrale de Rouen, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79815
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
Babayeva Studio, Russian (Russian, active 1890s), 1893, [Ivan Constantinovich Aivasovski], Albumen silver print. from glass negative, with inset oil painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78073
J.A. Whipple, 1850s (early), [Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6309
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man Reading Newspaper], Carte de visite, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95607
William England, 1862, [86 Stereographic Views of The International Exhibition of 1862], [The International Exhibition of 1862], Stereocard, albumen silver prints, from glass negatives with applied color, half, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79758
Louis Pierson, 1861-1867, [Countess de Castiglione as Elvira at the Cheval Glass], Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40380
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Burnside, Fife / Island in the Almond River, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69443
Robert Murray, 1852-1855 (taken) 1854-1856 (print), The Memnonium or Rameseiom, Thebes, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/103794
James William Bailey (British), 1880s, [Nine Portraits in Original Passe-Partout], Albumen silver prints, from glass negatives, with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79759
Unidentified photographer (French), 1870 (ca), [Female Nude with Mask], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48784
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
Maxime Du Camp, 1849, December - 1850, January, Entrée du Tombeau de Sultan Bezkouk, au Kaire, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69386
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1868, Miner at Work, Virginia City, Nevada, [Photographs: Geological Explorations of the 40th Parallel, Clarence, King, Geologist in Charge], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40365
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 78: Scene of coquetry, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79652
John C. Higgins (American, active 1880s-90s), 1888 (ca), [Man in Bottle], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, cabinet card, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54282
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95777
Émile Gsell, 1866, Costumes de Théâtre, Saigon, Cochinchine [Theater Costumes, Saigon, Cochinchina], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40455
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 39: The attention attracted by an object that provokes lascivious ideas and desires., [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79657
Henry Fox Talbot, 1858 (or later), [Dandelion Seeds] (Detail), Photogravure (photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate), Detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40605
Eugène Atget, 1920s (taken) 1956 (print), Boucherie, Rue Christine, Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/111917
R.C. Montgomery, 1850s, [Self-portrait?], Daguerreotype, with applied colour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95714
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Esneh (Latopolis), Construction Ensablée - Architrave, Futs, et Chapiteaux, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69269
Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, 1859 (ca), [Ship in Ice, Greenland Expedition], Stereoview, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/126025
Nicolaas Henneman, 1853, summer, Zulu in Leopard Costume, Coated salt or light albumen print, from a wet collodion on glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73882
Sebastiano Tassinari (Italian, 1814-1888), 1839-1840, [Photogenic Drawing from Leaf], Salted paper prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/91576
B.L. Spackman, 1859-1862, [Construction Site with Workers, Visitors, Ladders, and Urn at the 1862 International Exhibition at South Kensington, England], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/51641
J.E. Mayall, 1846-1852, Daguerreotype case for "Professor Highschool" (John Jabez Mayall), Daguerreotype case, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/104099
Unidentified photographer (French School), 1906, [Anthropometric File Card: Mr. Youriévitch], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40484
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), XIIe Station. Jésus meurt sur la croix. Autel élevé sur le lieu même ou le Christ a été crucifié, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78136
James Deane (author, American, 1801-1858) / Unidentified photographer, 1861 (published), Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River, Salted paper prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77961
Thomas Eakins, 1880s, [Thomas Eakins in Swim Suit], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78240
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Rome, So-Called Casa di Rienzi, the Oldest Medieval Private House, Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25993
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man Drawing Bust], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95618
Jacques Moulin, 1850 (ca), Two Nudes Standing, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6304
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 83: Lady Macbeth, ferocious cruelty, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79633
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Woman Wearing a Tignon, Daguerreotype, with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/130451
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 548 Beejapoor - The Citadel - The Ananda Mahal or Harem, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90417
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 539. Beejapoor - The Jumma Musjid, Interior under the Great Centre Dome, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90408
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874, September, And Enid Sang, [Idylls of the King], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77596
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Abou-Sembil, Petit Spéos - Partie Gauche de la Façade, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69170
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, 1870s, Cedars of Lebanon, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/67556
A.J. Russell, 1863 (ca), [Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge, near Union Mills, Virginia], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7709
Alphonse Bertillon, 1909 (ca), Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques: pour servir a l'étude du "portrait parlé", Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45749
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Ile de Fîleh (Philæ), Premier Pylône - Vue Prise de la Plate-Forme de la Colonnade Orientale en P, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69265
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), The Pride of the Forest - Calaveras Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79587
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1844, Aleppo, Viewed from the Antioch Gate, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85457
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1840s (ca), [Daguerreotype Plate Box], Storage, linden wood, plated iron, iron-gall ink, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85453
Henry Fox Talbot, 1846 (ca), [Nos. 170-176 Regent Street, London], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79855
Maxime Du Camp, 1850, March, Vue des rapides de la Seconde Cataracte, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79830
Hippolyte Bayard, 1839 (probably), [Classical Head], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95755
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Foglia di Peonia, Photogenic drawing contact negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/82209
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Louksor (Thèbes), Construction Postérieure - Galeries Parallèles, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69168
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-February, Entrance to the Temple of Minakshi in the Great Pagoda, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78030
Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1900, Daibutsu [Great Buddha], Nofuku-ji Temple, Kobe, Japan, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78050
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Porte de Damas (Bab-el-Ahmoud), Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78107
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Edfou, Aspect Générale de la Ville Vue de la Plateforme Centrale du Pylône, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69243
Louis Hostalier, 1900 (ca), West Africa (Senegal) Dakar-Native griot with his guitar [Afrique Occidentale (Sénégal) Dakar-Griot indigène avec sa guitare], Postcard, photomechanical, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61680
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Self-Portrait at Home [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61693
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
Unknown Artist (British School), 1870s, Louisa Blaney, [Insane Asylum Patient], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40606
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1916, [Portrait of Dr. Charles Breed], Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/29850
Alfred Stieglitz, 1890s-1900s (taken) 1907 (print), Snapshot - From My Window, Berlin, Photogravure, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45165
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Two Young Women Reclining [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61692
Edmond Bacot, 1852-1854, Hôtel du Bourgtheroulde, Rouen, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/128060
Paul Strand, 1916, [Pears and Bowls], Silver-platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7464
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
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Dog Jumping at Man], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95617
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1850-1858, Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40552
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), Niagara Falls from the Canadian Side, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40621
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
Charles Sheeler, 1917, Doylestown House - Stairs from Below, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6345
Alphonse Bertillon, 1901-1908, [Album of Paris Crime Scenes], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40519
Unknown Artist, 1850 (ca), San Francisco, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40618
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Woman Holding "1880" Calendar for March and April], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95597
Unknown artist (American School), 1850s, [Blind Man Wearing Dark Glasses], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40526
Walker Evans, 1936, [Rural Church, Beaufort, South Carolina], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105541
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, David Maitland Makgill Crichton, Rankeillour, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73913
Suzuki Shin'ichi I, 1870s, [A Japanese Woman and a Japanese Boy in Traditional Dress], Albumen silver print, from glass negative with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78065
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, 1. Foglia di Fico 2. Foglia di Spino bianco, ossia Crataegus, Paper Negative - Contact, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/82212
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
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
Jean Benyoumof, 1907-1920 (ca), Dakar-Young Senegalese [Dakar-Jeune Sénégalaise], Postcard, photomechanical, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61685
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Palais - Salle Hypostyle - Vue Générale Prise du Point Q, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69262
Wilhelm Plüschow, 1890s-1900s, [Young Male Nude Seated on Leopard Skin], Albumen silver print, from glass negatives, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48796
Giacomo Caneva, 1860s-1870s, [Tree in Formal Garden Outside Palazzo], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54199
Unidentified photographer (American), 1847, [Portrait of Tsow Chaoong], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90494
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852, Abou Sembil, Grand Spéos - Statues Colossales, Vues de Trois-Quarts, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69159
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Palais - Salle Hypostyle - Décoration de la Paroi Intérieure au Point M, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69256
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 Edgefield District potter, 19th century, Face Harvest Jug, Jug, Alkaline glazed stoneware with kaolin inserts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113889
Ernest Benecke, 1852, 22 April, Abou [sic] Nabut et esclaves négres au Caire [Abu Nabut and Negro Slaves in Cairo], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40452
Charles Hippolyte Aubry, 1864, [Study of Leaves on a Background of Floral Lace], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40474
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Man Standing in a Courtyard [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61691
Unknown Artist (American School), 1850 (ca), [Blind Man and His Reader], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40557
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), Miss Hodges of Salem, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/66876
Emily Clare Harvey, 1868, Henry Gordon Harvey [Decorated album page], [The Harvey Album], Albumen silver print, album page, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79552
Charles Conway (British, active 1850s), 1855, Winter, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45901
Philip Henry Delamotte & Henry Negretti, 1854, Progress of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, Albumen silver pint, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/33471
Félix Bonfils, 1880 (ca), Panorama de Jaffa, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115897
Lai Afong, 1869 (ca), Temple of Tai-wang at Wu ü near Sing Chang Tea Mart, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77991
John Murray, 1862-1864, The Diwan-i Khas from the Mussaman Burj, Agra Palace, Waxed paper negative, with applied media, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78010
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Ile de Fîleh (Philæ), Édifice du Sud et Partie de la Colonnade Occidentale Vue du Point V, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69264
Adolphe Braun, 1865 (ca), Pheasant and Grouse, Carbon print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/126038
   

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