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Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69453
Walker Evans, 1936, [Detail of "Negro Church, South Carolina"], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105546
Giacomo Caneva, 1860s-1870s, [Tree in Formal Garden Outside Palazzo], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54199
Man Ray, 1927, [Frames from "Emak Bakia"], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78179
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, 1854-1856, [Album of photographs], Album, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40348
Unidentified photographer, 1850s (late) - 1860s, [Man Demonstrating Patent Model for Sash Window], Tintype, with applied colour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/131805
J.A. Palmer, 1882, Back label for "The Wilde Woman of Aiken", [Aiken and Vicinity], Label, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113885
Horatio Ross, 1857 (ca), [Stag Trophy Head Killed by Ned Ross], [Ross Family Album], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40361
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), Mammoth Three Grove Hotel Calaveras Co Cal., Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79586
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Unidentified Boy in Dark Suit], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79866
Alexander Gardner, 1865-1866, Album cover for "Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1", Album cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40583
Frederick Gutekunst, 1890s, [Girl in Walking Costume with Hat and Muff], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53144
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 47: A suggestion of this same weeping, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79654
Félix Bonfils, 1870 (ca), Intérieur de la porte de Jaffa (détail), Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115888
Unknown artist, 1845 (ca), [Women Grinding Paint, Calcutta], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40536
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d'Athôr - Face Postérieure - Cléopatre et Cæsarion, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69167
Julius Wiesner (Austrian, 1838-1916), 1870 (ca), [Frustules of Diatoms], Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79869
Auguste Salzmann, 1854, Jérusalem, Détails de la porte d'un Dôme sépulcral, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79837
Cindy Sherman, 1978, Still from an Untitled Film, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6382
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-March, View of the Sacred Tank in the Great Pagoda, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78037
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Studio Portrait of Plains Indian, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54748
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, Album cover for Views in India - Beejapoor, Album cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90394
Hippolyte Bayard, 1839 (probably), [Classical Head], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95755
Paul Strand, 1916, Abstraction, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, Silver-platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6342
Unidentified photographer, 1857 (ca), [Boy with Orrery, Tellurian, and Other Astronomical Instruments], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95753
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), [Hiram Powers's Sculpture of the Greek Slave], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/121598
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Students from the Emerson School for Girls], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69105
Grete Stern, 1950 (ca), Sueño No. 1: "Articulos eléctricos para el hogar", Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61412
Francis Frith, 1857 (ca), Principal Source of the Jordan, Flowing From a Cave Near Banias, Near the Site of the Northern City of Dan, the Frontier Town of Israel, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78151
Eugène Constant, 1848-1852, L'arco degli argentari, adossato alla chiesa di San Giorgio al Velabro, Albumen print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77167
John Murray, 1856-1857, The Chowk [The Main Street in Agra, India], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40433
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 25: Not an expression of pain, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79646
Gates Bros., 1865, [Entrance Gorge (Looking Down) - 4th Glen], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95791
J.E. Mayall, 1846-1852, Daguerreotype case for "Professor Highschool" (John Jabez Mayall), Daguerreotype case, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/104099
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 10: Showing the expressive lines of m. frontalis in a young girl, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79641
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842, Ruins and Foreground, Acropolis, Athens, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85455
Arnold Genthe, 1895-1908, The Vegetable Peddler, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50989
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
Lai Afong, 1869 (ca), [Group of People Posing near River], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77990
Audrey, 2012, Faded Away, Pencil and collage, on photocopy of Henry Peach Robinson's photograph Fading Away, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/60384
Walker Evans, 1933, Girl Behind Barred Window (Havana), Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78167
Charles Nègre, 1855, [Plaster Casts of Books and Hands, South Porch, Chartres], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40492
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, [Three Men in Shepherd Attire, One with Bagpipes, the Other Two Holding Bread], Daguerreotype, hand-coloured, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73871
John Murray, 1858-1862, The Taj Mahal from the Banks of the Yamuna River, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25998
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 549 Beejapoor - The Citadel - The Audience Hall, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90418
Maxime Du Camp, 1849-1850, Sculptures sur la façade postérieure du grande Temple de Dendérah (Tentyris), Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78155
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Syout (Lycopolis), Statue Appartenant au Docteaur Cuny, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69202
Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (NPG), 1910 (ca), Grüsse aus Sachsen! Wo die hübschen Mädchen auf den Bäumen wachsen!, Gelatin silver print, postcard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54276
Walker Evans, 1933, [Detail of Wheel Spokes and Chair Caning on Carriage in the Collection of Oliver Jennings], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92006
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95761
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Gournah (Thèbes), Colosse de Gauche - Décoration de la Face Nord-Est du Trône, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69184
Unidentified photographer, 1870s, Cedars of Lebanon, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/67556
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), The Father of the Forest 450 ft C. Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79619
Walker Evans, 1973-1974, [People Viewing Walker Evans Exhibition], Instant color print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77940
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
Unknown Artist (American School), 1850 (ca), [Blind Man and His Reader], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40557
Gustave de Beaucorps, 1859, [Palace of the Dey of Algiers, Algeria], Waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78150
, 1888, 9 August, Group on Petria, Lake Mahopac, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/130454
Walker Evans, 1936, [Double-Steepled Wooden Church with Sapling Planted in Front, Alabama], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105545
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 536. Beejapoor - The Mehter Mahal. Detail of Carving on Door & Windows, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90405
Vicomte Joseph Vigier, 1853, Torrent de la cascade des Demoiselles, Bagnères de Luchon., Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79824
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
Samuel Fosso, 1975 (taken) 2003 (print), Self Portrait, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61694
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 19: Suffering, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79645
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
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Students from the Emerson School for Girls], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69106
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1867-1872, Shoshoni, [Photographs: Geological Explorations of the 40th Parallel, Clarence, King, Geologist in Charge], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40432
Frank Eugene, 1912, Crown Prince Ludwig III of Bavaria, Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49907
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 527. Beejapoor - Ibrahim Rozah - The Mosque, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90396
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
Walker Evans, 1941, 22 November, [Mourning Wreath, Doorway, Avenue C, New York City], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45173
Félix Bonfils, 1870 (ca), Caire. Allée de Pyramides, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115900
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1841, [Notre Dame Cathedral, Rose Window, North Transept], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78095
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95786
John Anthony, 1860s, [Dome of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78081
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Dakkeh (Pselcis), Vue Générale du Temple, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69261
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
Ashford Brothers, 1864 (ca), Upwards of Five Hundred Photographic Portraits of the Most Celebrated Personages of the Age, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79721
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
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 17 August, A Group Taking Tea at Lacock Abbey, Salt print, from calotype negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/66915
J.A. Palmer, 1882, Back label for "An Aesthetic Darkey", [Aiken and Vicinity], Stereoview, label, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113888
John Anthony, 1857, Jerusalem, Court of the Mosque of Omar, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78082
Bruno Braquehais, 1850s, [Reclining Female Nude Posed as Danae], Daguerreotype, with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/111370
Martha Rosler, 1967-72 (taken) 1990s (early, print), Red Stripe Kitchen, Chromogenic print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48201
E.J. Bellocq, 1912 (ca, taken) 1980s-1990s (print), [Storyville portrait], Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/127281
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
Robert Smithson, 1973, Bingham Copper Mining Pit Utah / Reclamation Project, Photostat and plastic overlay with wax pencil, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6378
Charles Nègre, 1858-1859, The Refectory of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes, Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6322
Edward Ruscha, 1967, Royal Road Test, Page layout, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48199
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Musician with Large Brass Horn, Uruguay], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95621
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
Unknown artist, 1916, [X Ray, Broken Right Femur], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40547
Ernest Benecke, 1852, Autopsy of the First Crocodile Onboard, Upper Egypt, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40449
Alphonse Bertillon, 1893 (ca), Notation of Scars, Schematic Drawings, Albumen silver prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113478
1897, Book cover for Albert A. Hopkins, 1897, Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions Including Trick Photography, (London: Low), Book cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54316
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852, Béni Haçan, Architecture Hypogéenne, Tombeau d'Amoneï, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69164
David Smith, 1932-1935, Waterfront Scene with Collaged Elements: Reclining Woman, Self-Portrait],, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6349
François-Edmond Fortier, 1910-, [Portrait of a standing unidentified African man], Cabinet card, gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/84796
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842, Pompey's Column, Alexandria [68. Alexandrie. Colonne de Pompée], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/87269
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
C.M. Bell, 1880, Red Cloud, Cabinet card, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79793
Félix Teynard, 1851 (published), Le Kaire, Mosquée Nâcéryeh, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69156
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, [Bust Portrait of an Indian Woman], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40372
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
Unidentified photographer, 1910s, Portrait of a woman [Saint Louis, Senegal], Postcard, gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61687
Unidentified artist, 1795-1798 (ca), Portrait of Pierre-François Percy (1754-1825), Physionotrace etching, ink on paper; circular frame of copper alloy and colored paper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/16999
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842, Western Approach to the Acropolis, Athens (49. Athe`nes. 1842. Acropole. Co^te´ O.) [Detail], Daguerreotype, detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113738
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Faradisation du muscle frontal, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79630
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Girl with Portrait of George Washington], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40617
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
Louis Lafon (French, active 1870s-90s), 1892, Tubular Jetty, Mouth of the Adour, Port of Bayonne, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79729
Gustave Le Gray, 1857, La Messe au Camp de Châlons [Mass at Camp de Châlons], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40416
Eugène Atget, 1900 (ca), St. Denis, Ancien Relais de la Poste d'Ecouen, Hôtel du Grand Cerf, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79724
Luigi Pesce, 1858, Ruine sulla prima terrazza, Persepolis, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49834
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Chapelle protestante et environs, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78123
Auguste Salzmann, 1854, Jérusalem, Hospital de Sainte-Hélène, Face sud, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53743
Unidentified photographer, 1861, 24 April, March from Annapolis to Washington, Robert C. Rathbone, Sergeant Major, Seventh Regiment, New York Militia, Carte de visite, albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50253
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), XIIIe Station. Jésus est remis entre les mains de sa mère. Cet autel est construit sur le rocher où se tenait la vierge marie pendant le crucifiement de son fils., Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78130
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1856-1857, [Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78101
Thomas Eakins, 1883, [Three Children and a Dog Playing in the Creek, July 4, 1883], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78238
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1843, Hexagonal Court, Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85459
Nadar, 1888 (ca), Mlle. Bernhardt, Paris, [Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1)], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50961
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
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Nubie. Rive Orientale du Nil (Village de Bab). Vue prise au sud de Philoe, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69379
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1865-1867, Charles Hay Cameron, Esq., in His Garden at Freshwater, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77592
   

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