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Thomas Eakins, 1883, [Cornfield in Back of the Barn], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78239
Charles Clifford, 1858, The Walnut Tree of Emperor Charles V, Yuste, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40580
Edward Steichen, 1908, Balzac, the Silhouette - 4 A.M., Gum bichromate print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6333
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man Playing Cymbals], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95619
Maxime Du Camp, 1849, December - 1850, January, Armes et ustensiles du Kaire, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69387
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1867, Fissure Vent at Steamboat Springs, Nevada, [Photographs: Geological Explorations of the 40th Parallel, Clarence, King, Geologist in Charge], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40411
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Tour de David avec ses grandes assises salomoniennes, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78110
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Enciente du Palais Vue du Point H, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69210
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839-1840, Cover for "Album di disegni fotogenici" ["The Bertoloni Album"], [Album di disegni fotogenici - The Bertoloni Album], Album cover, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40623
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, [Old Royal High School, Calton Hill, Edinburgh], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69444
Mathew B. Brady, 1860s, Mathew B. Brady's Studio Camera and Tripod, Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50258
Félix Bonfils, 1870 (ca), The Temple of the Sun at Baalbec, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115892
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
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73951
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
Unknown artist (American School), 1850s, [Blind Man Wearing Dark Glasses], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40526
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Tour Antonia et Environs, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78118
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
Unknown Artist (British School), 1855, [Hawk Perched on Gauntlet of a Falconer], Ambrotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40602
Comte Frédéric Flachéron, 1849, Bas Relief from the Arch of Constantine, Rome, Paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73862
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Man Standing in a Courtyard [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61691
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
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
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842-1844, Atlit Syrie, Chapelle [Damascus Gate, Jerusalem], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78088
Unidentified Edgefield District potter, 19th century, Face Harvest Jug, Jug, Alkaline glazed stoneware with kaolin inserts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113889
John Dillwyn Llewelyn, 1855 (ca), The Wigwam, a Canadian Scene at Penllergare, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50951
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Nancy Southworth Hawes], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69103
Eadweard Muybridge, 1875, Crater of Volcano, Quetzaltenango-Guatemala, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79702
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Musician Playing Flute], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95613
John Anthony, 1857, Jerusalem, Court of the Mosque of Omar, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78082
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 1860 (ca), [Interior View. Anthony's Photographic and Stereoscopic Warehouse], Glass stereograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/112068
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 16: Expression of severity, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79643
G.R. Lambert & Co., 1870s, Backmark for "G. R. Lambert and Co. - Singapore, Carte de visite, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/129924
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Nubie. Seconde Cataracte. Dgebel-Abouoir, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69377
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/78112
Charles François Daubigny, 1862, Ducks in the Marshes, Cliché-verre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/63358
1910, Catalogue of the international exhibition, pictorial photography / Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Nov. 3-Dec. 1, 1910, Exhibition catalogue page, cropped, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/51085
Unknown artist, 1840s-1850s, [Button with hands], Button, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40525
Émile Gsell, 1866, Vue de Sa´gon (Feuille No. 1) [View of Saigon, Plate No. 1], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40428
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
Roger Fenton, 1855, Landing Place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40413
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. (Environs) Montagne de Sion. Cenacle et Maison de Caiphe., Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78128
Robert Murray, 1856 (ca), Gate of Ptolemy Philomeder, B.C. 180, Karnac, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/103795
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
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1865, Alfred Tennyson (The Dirty Monk), Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45905
Unidentified photographer, 1905 (ca), [Alfred Stieglitz Photographing on a Bridge], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40316
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), [Nude], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40477
T. Lux Feininger, 1929 (ca), [3 Couples Dancing on the Roof of the Bauhaus], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48874
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
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
Unidentified photographer, 1870s, The Far East: A Monthly Journal, Illustrated with Photographs, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79687
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
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
John William "A.C." Kline (1824-1892) (publisher), 1861-1865, Jeff Davis 'Taking' Washington, Ink on paper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50778
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Unidentified Woman in Nine Oval Views], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40612
Alphonse Bertillon, 1901-1908, [Album of Paris Crime Scenes], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40519
Emily Clare Harvey, 1868, Emma Jane ? [Decorated album page], [The Harvey Album], Albumen silver print, album page, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79553
Calvert Richard Jones, 1840s (late), Portrait of the Gardener, possibly David Roderick, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79820
Unidentified photographer (French), 1850s, [Woman in Apron and Bonnet Grinding Coffee in Kitchen Setting], Daguerreotype, stereo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/120504
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 66: Head of Arrotino (the spy, the knife grinder, and so on), [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79649
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
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
Jean-Marc Bustamante, 1991, [Light], Silkscreen on acrylic resin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6388
J.E. Mayall, 1846-1852, [Copy of the Rosetta Stone], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/104098
Frederick Gutekunst, 1890s, [Girl with Ringlets, Seated, Three-Quarter Length], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53147
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man Reading Newspaper], Carte de visite, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95607
J. Wood (American, active 1870s-80s), 1860s, Musical Mokes, Carte de visite, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79691
Auguste Salzmann, 1854, Jérusalem, Enceinte du Temple, Poterne de Josaphat, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79844
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Heliophila, Paper Negative - Contact, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/82211
John Heartfield, 1932, Der Sinn des Hitlergrusses: Kleiner Mann bittet um grosse Gaben. Motto: Millonen Stehen Hinter Mir! [The Meaning of the Hitler Salute: Little man asks for big gifts. Motto: Millions Stand Behind Me!],, Photomechanical reproduction, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45002
Unidentified photographer, 1870 (ca), [Two Women], Tintype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78953
Charles Marville, 1855-1856, Etude de ciel [Cloud Study with the Dome of the Invalides], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40429
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1864, General Grant's Council of War, Massaponax Church, Virginia, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/47167
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Grande Porte du Nord Vue du Point X, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69238
Benjamin Brecknell Turner, 1852, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, Transept, Paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40465
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 549 Beejapoor - The Citadel - The Audience Hall, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90418
Alphonse Bertillon, 1891-1895, [Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40400
Édouard Baldus, 1856, June, [Lyons During the Floods of 1856], Salted paper prints from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40561
Thomas George Mackinlay (British, 1809-1865), 1856, Study for a Picture, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79676
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Souâdj, Tombeau de Mouràd-Bey - Entrée de la Mosquée, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69176
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Cour du Palais - Vue Prise de Point I, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69211
Robert E. Peary (American, 1856-1920), 1893-1895, [Peary's Ship], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79742
Henry Fox Talbot, 1835 or 1839, [the Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey], Photogenic drawing negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6303
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
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 François Daubigny, 1852 (ca), The Hamlet of Optevoz, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/130001
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 50: Affected weeping and face in repose, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79650
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95772
Sir Francis Galton, 1883, Frontispiece of Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, Albumen print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54315
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, [Bust Portrait of an Indian Woman], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40372
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Two Young Women Reclining [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61692
George N. Barnard, 1864, Destruction of Hood's Ordnance Train, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50242
Robert E. Peary (American, 1856-1920), 1893-1895, [Peary's Ship], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79743
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 15: Mediation, mental concentration, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79638
John Anthony, 1857, Jerusalem, Site of the Temple on Mount Moriah, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78079
Unknown Artist (British School), 1870s, Caroline Nightingale, [Insane Asylum Patient], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40607
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
James Peter Knight, 1853-1856, In the Garden. Blenheim, Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73889
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
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
Louis Pierson, 1893, 1 September, Rachel, [Sainte Cécile et Rachel], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40383
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, David Maitland Makgill Crichton, Rankeillour, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73913
Benjamin Cowderoy, 1846, [The Reading Establishment], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49882
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, September-October, Colossal Statue of Gautama Close to the North End of the Bridge, Amerapoora, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25999
Unknown (French School), 1916, La Grande Nef - Le maniement d'armes des blessés en fin de traitement [The Great Nave: Wounded Soldiers Performing Arms Drill at the End of Their Medical Treatment], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40448
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
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
Claude Monet (1840-1926), 1865, The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest, Oil painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/41178
Charles Marville, 1860s, Impasse Briare (de la Cité Coquenard) [Impasse Briare, from the Cité Coquenard], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40443
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/78034
Thomas Eakins, 1883, [Three Children and a Dog Playing in the Creek, July 4, 1883], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/124009
Félix Bonfils, 1880 (ca), Panorama de Jaffa, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115897
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Égypte Moyenne. Pyramide de Chéphren, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69376
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
Maxime Du Camp, 1849-1851, Palais de Karnak, sculptures extérieures du sanctuaire de granit., Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73891
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Vue Générale des Ruines Prise du Nord-Est, en V, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69215
Malick Sidibé, 1956, Self-Portrait, Photograph, original frame of reverse-painted glass, tape, cardboard and string, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/112453
Félix Bonfils, 1880 (ca), Les ponts du fleurs du chien, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115907
   

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