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Pierre Bonnard, 1895, Les Batignolles avec la devanture fleurie oder Le cheval de fiacre [Das Droschkenpferd in Batignolles], Oil painting, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/40752
Henry P. Bosse, 1889, Redwing, Minn. and Barnbluff, Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76742
Armour & Co. (artist, American), 1904 (ca), Portrait of Electric Light Installers, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128300
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839-1840, Leaf Study, Photogenic drawing, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76760
Thomas Annan, 1868-1871 (taken) 1877 (print), Plate 32: Close, No. 128 Saltmarket, Carbon print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117814
Giorgio Sommer, 1873, Impronte Umane, Pompei (Human Cast, Pompeii), Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117809
Robert Frank, 1956, Man reading in automobile--Los Angeles, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130113
James Fitzallen Ryder, 1862, Photographic Views on the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76729
Alex V. Olszewsky (artist, American), 1860s, Wicker chair, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128263
Robert Frank, 1956, Master Taxidermist--Wyoming, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130115
Lewis M. Rutherfurd, 1865, 6 March, Photographie de la lune a son 1er Quartier, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117768
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Portrait of a Boy, Albumen print, with applied colour, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117756
Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1854-1855 (taken), Fright, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression) (1862)], Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/78334
Henry P. Bosse, 1891, Levee at La Crosse, Wis., Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76749
Felice Beato, 1860, Imperial Summer Palace Yuen Min Yuen, Pekin, Before the Burning, October 18, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76819
Robert Frank, 1955, Cocktail party--New York City, [The Americans], Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130098
Unidentified photographer (British), 1850 (ca), Portrait of a Child, Daguerreotype, with applied colour, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/126106
Felice Beato, 1860, Part of the Entrance to the Lama Temple Near Pekin, October 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76823
Felice Beato, 1860, The Great Pagoda in the Imperial Winter Palace, Pekin, October 29, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76817
Peter McWilliam (artist, American, 1875-1947), 1900 (ca), Portrait of a Telephone Lineman, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128284
Aimé-Jules Dalou, 1891 (ca) (cast after 1907), Portrait Mask of Etienne Carjat, Bronze, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/51580
William Robert Baker, 1850, Nether Hall, Waxed-paper negative with brown and black ink, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130437
Unidentified photographer (America), 1851 (ca), Millie Craig and Frederick H. Healey, Daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128251
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe, Salted paper print, from paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76772
Unidentified photographer (American), 1845 (ca), Portrait of a Man and Girl with Horse and Dog, Daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/126502
W.J. Chapman (artist, British, 1830-c. 1923), 1884, Lewis Charlton, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128274
A.F. Ferris & Co. (artist, American), 1880 (ca), Portrait of a Wallpaperer, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128272
Charles Nègre, 1852 (ca), Chateau of Vallambrosa, Cannes, Waxed paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92689
Felice Beato, 1860, Exterior of North Taku Fort on Peiho River, Showing the English and French Entrance, August 21, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76813
Louis de Clercq, 1860, Grenade, Alhambra, Porte d'Entree de la Forteresse, Albumen print, from paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54874
Robert Frank, 1955, Automobile on U.S. 285, New Mexico, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130094
Jean Baptiste Corot, 1858, The Hermit's Woods, or the Banks of Lake Trasimène (Le Bois de l'Hermite, ou les Bords du Lac Trasimène), Salted paper print (cliche verre), National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117749
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1855 (ca), Woman Holding a Dead Bird, Surrey County Asylum, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76757
Felice Beato, 1860, October, Architectural View of the Lama Temple Near Pekin, October 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76807
Robert Frank, 1941-1945, Zurich telephone directory--40 Fotos, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130078
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-February, Madura: The Vygay River, with Causeway, across to Madura, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/59085
Felice Beato, 1860, Temple of Confucius, Pekin, October 1860, [The Second Opium War], Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/127898
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate Number 733. Elephant walking, Collotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117781
Eadweard Muybridge, 1877, Moonlight Effect-Bay of Panama, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54893
Peter Dingeldey (artist, American, born 1872), 1900 (ca), Portrait of a Carpenter Helper, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128283
Asahel Curtis, 1910, Indian Whalers Stripping Their Prey at Neah Bay, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117796
Eadweard Muybridge, 1879, Studies of Foreshortenings. Horses. Walking. Mahomet. Nos. 119-120, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117777
Felice Beato, 1860, The Great Imperial Porcelain Palace Yuen Min Yuen, Pekin, October 18, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76816
Henry Fox Talbot, 1845, A Scene in York: York Minster from Lop Lane, Salted paper print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76767
Robert Frank, 1946, Paris seen from automobile, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130085
John Murray, 1858-1862 (ca), Nynee Tall from South End, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117745
Henry P. Bosse, 1889, Read's Landing, Minn., Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76741
Charles Marville, 1866-1868, Rue de la Bûcherie, du cul de sac Saint-Ambroise (fifth arrondissement), Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92662
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Linlithgow, from the railway station, with the Town Hall, St. Michael's Church, and Palace, Salted paper print, from paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76773
Charles Amedee Philippe Van Loo (French, 1719-1795), 1764, The Camera Obscura (detail), OIl on canvas, detail, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54475
Édouard Baldus, 1856-1857, Bibliothèque Imperiale du Louvre, Salted paper print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117733
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Botanical Photogram, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117722
Robert Frank, 1955, Man shopping--Los Angeles, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130105
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate Number 469. Child running, Collotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117815
A-Cheong (artist, Chinese, Hong Kong, active 1900s-1910s), 1901-1904, Portrait of a Sailor, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128294
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, Portrait of a Mother and Four Children, Salted paper print, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117743
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, Guard Rock, Des Moines Rapids Canal L.W., Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76734
Robert Frank, 1955, Outside Graumann's Chinese Theater--Hollywood, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130106
G.T. Putnam, 1875 (ca), Charles F. Hanson, Piano Forte Tuner and Repairer, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128270
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, Ponton Bridge at Read's Landing, Minn., Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76735
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Portrait of Three Young Men, Ambrotype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117820
Robert Frank, 1956, Funeral procession--San Francisco, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130112
Charles Marville, 1864, Rue des Lombards, from the rue des Lavandières Sainte-Opportune, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92665
Manville & Schroder (Greenbay, Wisconsin), 1864 (ca), Portrait of a Native American Woman, Carte de visite, painted, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130896
Wolff's Gallery (artist, American, active 1860s), 1863 (ca), Portrait of a First Lieutenant, Infantry, Salted paper print, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117751
Charles Marville, 1853, The Virtues Crushing the Vices, Strasbourg Cathedral, Salted paper print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92658
Alfred Stieglitz, 1921, Georgia O'Keeffe-Hands and Grapes, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/103604
F. Jay Haynes, 1884 (ca), Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Falls, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117808
Felice Beato, 1860, The Great Imperial Palace Yuen Min Yuen, Pekin, Before the Burning, October 18, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76815
W.D. Fay, 1860s, Portrait of Child Maids, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128260
Lady Frances Jocelyn, 1865, Intérieur, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/84939
Eadweard Muybridge, 1881-1882, The Horse in Motion as Shown by Instantaneous Photography with a Study on Animal Mechanics, [Plate XVL.], Book illustration, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54896
Henry F. Post (artist, American, born c. 1840), 1896 (ca), "Dominic Parsons Hunting for Fossils", Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128297
Conrad Rippel (artist, American, 1853-1936), 1890s (ca), Portrait of a Tinware Advertising Woman, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128277
Désiré Charnay, 1863, Trois Femmes Malgaches (Plate 30), Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117764
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Portrait of a Fireman, Daguerreotype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117817
Edouard Manet, 1878, La prune [Der Pflaumenschnaps], Oil painting, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/40747
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1871, Wall in the Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117830
Charles Marville, 1864-1870, Hôtel de la Marine, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92657
Carleton E. Watkins, 1860s (ca), Donner Lake, California, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92700
Henry P. Bosse, 1889, From Bluffs at Merrimac, Minn. Looking Downstream, Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76739
2015, Radiographs of Edgar Degas wax sculptures, X-ray, composite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76288
Charles Le Morvan (French, 1865 - 1933), 1904, Carte photographique de la lune, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117792
Loewy et Puiseux, 1899, Photographie Lunaire Blancanus - Tycho - Schiller, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117787
Robert Frank, 1955, Canal Street—New Orleans, [The Americans], Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130097
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, St. Paul's Cathedral, Valetta, Malta, with Bell Tower, Salted paper print, from salted paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54910
Désiré Charnay, 1863, Femme Malgache et Ses Enfants (Madagascan Woman and Her Children) (Plate 3), Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117762
L.P. Greenlund & Co. (artist, American, active 1890s-1910s), 1880s (ca), Portrait of a Tinsmith, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128273
Louis-Emile Durandelle, 1868 (taken) 1878-1881 (print), Rostral Column, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117822
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1890s, "Sunshine and Shadow", Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/126674
William F. Sleight (artist, American, 1857-1918), 1897 (ca), Portrait of Night Soil Pumpers, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128301
H. Hoyt (artist, American), 1905 (ca), Newspaper Boys for "The Baltimore News", Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128293
Felice Beato, 1860, Entrance to the Winter Palace, Pekin, October 29, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76811
American 20th Century (artist), 1960 (ca), The Photographer's Studio, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128299
Unidentified photographer, 1880s, Baby, Tintype, hand-coloured, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54871
John P. Soule, 1863, Full Moon, Stereoview, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117767
Warren De la Rue, 1858-1859 (taken) 1862 (print), Full Moon, Stereoscopic glass transparency, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117747
Robert Frank, 1941 (ca), Banana in sand--Design, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130072
Asahel Curtis, 1910, Indian Whalers Homeward Bound from the Pacific, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117795
Edel (American), 1895 (ca), "Anna in Union College Laundry", Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128280
A.F Ferris & Co (Artist, American, active 1880s), 1880 (ca), Portrait of a Wallpaperer, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/131009
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Portrait of a Civil War Widow, Ambrotype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117758
Édouard Baldus, 1855, L' Isle Adam, [Chemins de Fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée], Salted paper print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117730
Felice Beato, 1860, Exterior of the Tomb Depot Near Pekin, October 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76814
Robert Frank, 1951, Melvin Tocker, 6 AM, [People You Don't See], Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130091
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1855-1856, Camp of the 17th Regiment, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76781
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, 1 September - 21 October, Amerapoora: South Ditch of the City Wall, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/59087
Unidentified collagist, n.d., [A Boardman], Collage, with albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/78332
Unidentified photographer (America), 1855 (ca), Portrait of a Man, Daguerreotype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128255
John Moran, 1863, Broadhead's Creek, Delaware Water Gap, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/74378
Henry P. Bosse, 1891, From Foot of Robinson's Rock Looking Upstream, Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76746
Detroit Photographic Co., 1900 (published), A Monday Washing, New York City, Photo-chromolithograph, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117807
Charles Nègre, 1852, February (before), Market Scene at the Port of the Hotel de Ville, Paris, Salted paper print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/67057
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, 20-24 August or 23 October, Pugahm Myo: Carved Doorway in Courtyard of Shwe Zeegong Pagoda,, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/59086
Antonio Shindler, 1868, Alexander Gardner, William Henry Jackson, and Antonio Zeno Shindler with Pueblo delegates Alejandro Padilla, Governor of Isleta, and Ambrosio Abeita, Ex-Governor of Isleta, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117769
Unidentified photographer, 1888 (ca), Untitled (Fishbowl), Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54872
Robert Frank, 1956, Woman in hallway--San Francisco, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130117
Felice Beato, 1860, Interior of Pehtang Fort Showing the Magazine and Wooden Gun, August 1, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76821
Edward S. Curtis, 1910-1914, Nakoaktok Warrior, Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117798
George N. Barnard, 1865-1866, Columbia from the Capitol, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92670
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1855-1856, Remains of the Malakoff Tower, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76796
William J. Stillman, 1882, Propylaea from the Southwest, Carbon print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54903
Robert Frank, 1955, Street scene--Houston, Texas, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130107
Carleton E. Watkins, 1861, Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92697
Roger Fenton, 1858, Lichfield Cathedral from the North-west, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54888
Gustave Le Gray, 1856 (ca), Beech Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92654
Unidentified photographer (Great Britain), 1848, John Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Jr., Daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/131393
Edouard Manet, 1873, Le chemin de fer [Die Eisenbahn], Oil painting, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/40743
Carleton E. Watkins, 1871, Malakoff Diggins, North Bloomfield, Nevada County, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92693
Francis Frith, 1857 (ca), The Ramasseum of El-Kurneh, Thebes, First View, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/78341
A.E. Alden, 1868, Backmark for "From A.E. Alden's Photograph bRooms and Emporium of Fine-Arts. Nos. 59, 61, 63 and 65 Arcade, Providence, R.I., Carte de visite, back, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128269
Alex V. Olszewsky (artist, American), 1860s, Portrait of a Wicker Chair Maker, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128258
Anna Atkins, 1840s, Ferns. Specimen of Cyanotype, Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92649
Carleton E. Watkins, 1861, River View of the Royal Arches, Yosemite, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92699
   

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