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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
 
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873
USA

www.nelson-atkins.org
Tel: 816 561 4000

 
Some random images from this collection.
 
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George H. Johnson, 1850 (ca), California gold miners with rocker and sluice, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/94432
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Traveling Minstrels - banjo and bones, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/58135
Unidentified photographer, 1870 (ca), Photographer in studio sticking tongue out, Carte de visite, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80828
André Kertész, 1918, 19 October (taken) 1980 (print), Transport, Braila, Rumania, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81220
Henri Le Secq, 1853, Démolitions de Paris, Porte Saint Martin, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81656
Clarence John Laughlin, 1941 (taken) 1973 (print), Solid--Non-Solid Figure; (Dislocation of a Figure), Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81343
Weegee, 1940 (ca), Simply Add Boiling Water, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81355
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Man with Skulls, Daguerreotype, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/63910
W. Eugene Smith, 1951, Nurse Midwife (new dresses), [Nurse Midwife], Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80990
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Woman telegrapher, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/58132
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Hand on book, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80683
André Kertész, 1919 (taken) 1980 (print), Budafok, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81222
Bisson frères, 1858, Colonne de Phocas, Rome, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80809
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken, negative) 1853-1854 (print), General View of the Ruins, Luxor (Thebes), Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81614
George Gardner Rockwood, 1880 (ca), Rockwood's Instantaneous Imperial Cards, Carte de visite, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80958
Unidentified photographer, 1920s (ca), Shadow of photographer and camera, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/104189
Imogen Cunningham, 1958, Self-portrait on Geary Street, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81321
B. Barbour (American, active 1850s), 1854, Jas. D. Robey, Calligrapher, Suncook, New Hampshire, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80684
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Butcher Shop Interior, Daguerreotype, whole plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/92790
Bisson frères, 1858, Arch of Constantine, Rome, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80808
Henry Fox Talbot, 1845, York Minster from Lop Lane, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81631
Bisson frères, 1858, Roman Forum, Temple of Saturn (Concord) and Temple of Vespasian, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80810
Louis Pierson, 1860s (taken) 1930 (ca, print), The Countess de Castiglione, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81544
Charles Nègre, 1852 (ca), Self-Portrait at 21 Quai Bourbon, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81592
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1868, Cave-in, Gould & Curry Mine, Virginia City, Nevada, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/49726
Nicholas Nixon, 2003, The Brown Sisters, Ipswich, Massachusetts, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81160
Charles Soulier, 1865 (ca), The Lower Falls of the Reichenbach, Switzerland, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80883
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), G.B. Stebbins, Phrenologist, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80690
Keith Smith (American, born 1938), 1966, Opus 14 Head Movements, Cyanotype, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80767
Unidentified photographer, 1864-1865 (ca), Mirror-image ("playing card") portrait of man, Ambrotype, 1/9 plate, mirror-image ruby, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80750
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), "Home Sweet Home" Sampler, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80696
Francis Blake, 1886 (ca), "Cow Pony" at sharp canter, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81400
Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 1966 (taken) 1977 (print), Sleeping dogs bark, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81205
Mole & Thomas, 1918, Human American Eagle Formation, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81076
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (ca), Main Temple, Hypostyle Hall, Central Colonnade Viewed from Point J, Karnak (Thebes), Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81622
Guy Gayler Clark (American, 1883-1945), 1917 (ca), St. Patrick's Cathedral (Man with cart), Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81027
Sarony, 1885 (ca), Page of studio sample book, Albumen prints, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80777
André Kertész, 1960 (taken) 1981 (print), Snake and Mouse, New York, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81138
Louis Pierson, 1860 (ca), Bal en Costume, Royaume de Belgique, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81545
Unidentified photographer, 1874, Astronomers (Transit of Venus Party), Washington, D.C., Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80927
John Thomson, 1870 (ca), Buy a Broom, Carte de visite, hand-coloured, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80841
Charles Soulier, 1865 (ca), The Jungfrau, View of Mürren, Switzerland, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80887
Francis Frith, 1857, Doum-Palm: Mosque of Mishoo, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80891
United States Naval Aviation Photographic Unit (American, 1942 - 1945), 1943-1945 (ca), Kamikaze Misses USS Sangamon, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/131106
John Thomson, 1862-1864 (ca), Malay huts, Carte de visite, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80968
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, 1982, "Expeditions Series", California, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81356
Doris Ulmann, 1920s (ca, early), Clarence H. White, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81455
Unidentified photographer (American), 1850 (ca), A Showing of Daguerreotypes, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/62037
Nicholas Nixon, 2012, The Brown Sisters, Boston, Massachusetts, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81168
Francis Frith, 1857, Cairo: The Mosque of the Caliph El-Hakim, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80890
Lewis Carroll, 1868 (ca), Alexandra Kitchin, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80921
Henri Le Secq, 1860 (ca), Cart wheels, Photolithograph, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81655
Todd Webb, 1945, Harry Callahan, Detroit, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81480
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Portrait of a Chinese woman with daguerreotype, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/112926
John Thomson, 1870 (ca), Group of Chinese Women, Carte de visite, hand-coloured, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80856
Morris Engel, 1947-1948 (ca), Paul Strand, New Jersey, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81451
John Thomson, 1870 (ca), Chinese Women, Carte de visite, hand-coloured, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80849
Pierre Victor Plumier, French (active 1840s-1850s), 1850 (ca), Lady in costume, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/52860
Unidentified maker, 1852 (ca), Portrait of a California miner holding a pan with gold, Daguerreotype, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/131586
Unidentified daguerreotypist, 1850-1860 (ca), A Rare Antebellum Image of Slavery in Georgia, Believed to be the Earliest Known Image of Enslaved African Americans with Cotton, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/94485
Unidentified photographer, 1853 (ca), Nine California gold miners with long tom, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/94434
Brett Weston, 1985 (ca), Lava Abstraction, Hawaii, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81062
Clarence John Laughlin, 1956, The Photographer as an Explorer of Space and Light., Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81350
Giraudon's Artist, 1870s (late), Woman with bundle of twigs, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80796
D.W. Butterfield, 1875 (ca), Mills of the Winona Paper Co., Holyoke, MA., Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80784
Hill & Adamson, 1843, William Leitch in Monk's Robe ("The House of Death"), Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81630
Unidentified photographer, 1865, Susan M. Davis, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80732
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), House on Prairie, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80685
Dorothea Lange, 1933, White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81306
Tseng Kwong Chi, 1984 (taken) 2016 (print), Niagara Falls, New York, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81202
Cundall & Howlett, 1856, Heroes of the Crimean War, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80811
André Giroux, 1855 (ca), Atelier d'emoulage sur le Durolle dans la Vallee des rouets, Thiers, Puy de Dome, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81672
André Kertész, 1970, Washington Square, New York, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81309
Ferenc Berko, 1936, Pigeons, Trafalgar Square, London, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81461
Roland Spedden, 1940-1945 (ca), Souvenir du Cabaret du Neant, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81045
W. Eugene Smith, 1951, Untitled (Patient), [Nurse Midwife], Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80991
Todd Webb, 1941, Harry Callahan at Lake Huron, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81475
O.H. Willard, 1866, or 1863-1864, Cavalry, Private, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80909
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Magic background portrait, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80715
Jesse Harrison Whitehurst, 1855 (ca), James Thomas, Jr., tobacco farmer, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80718
Unidentified photographer, 1942, 6 October, U.S. Navy Posture Testing, C. E. Epp, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81524
André Kertész, 1931, Elizabeth & Andre Kertesz, Paris, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81290
Brett Weston, 1954, Cracked Paint and Plastic, Garrapata, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81058
John Thomson, 1870 (ca), Coolies, Carte de visite, hand-coloured, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80854
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Samuel F.B. Morse, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81682
Paul-Émile Miot, 1858 (ca), Fish-drying huts, Newfoundland, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80880
John Murray, 1858-1862 (ca), View of the Taj Mahal from the bank of the Jumna, Calotype negaive, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81738
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), The Pianist, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80706
Bisson frères, 1858, Palais Ducal Detail (Royal Palace), Venice, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80788
An-My Lê, 1999-2002, Small Wars (Explosion), Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81539
Francis Frith, 1857, Cairo: The Mosque of the Caliph El-Hakim, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80892
Nicholas Nixon, 1992 (taken) 2005 (print), The Brown Sisters, Concord, Massachusetts, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81149
Robert Polidori, 1997, Señora Luisa Faxas Residence, 2 #318 (At the Corner of Avenida 5TA.), Miramar, Havana, Chromogenic print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81580
Unidentified photographer, 1880 (ca), Chickens in Yard, Tintype, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80756
Nicholas Nixon, 2001 (taken) 2005 (print), The Brown Sisters, Brewster, Massachusetts, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81157
Lotte Jacobi, 1938 (taken, later print), Alfred Stieglitz, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81267
Abe Aronow (American, born 1940), 1984 (taken) 2010 (print), Roy DeCarava, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81126
John Thomson, 1870 (ca), Compradore, Carte de visite, hand-coloured, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80852
Henry L. Abbott (American, 1831-1927), 1882, Torpedo Explosion, Willet's Point, New York Harbor, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80926
Todd Webb, 1950, From Passage Leonidas, Paris, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81466
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Fireman, Eureka Company No. 4, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80719
Désiré Charnay, 1863, Madagascar, marais de Soamandrakisai, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80825
Bernd & Hilla Becher, 1997, Water Tower, Goole, Yorkshire, GB, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81228
Bierstadt Brothers, 1859 (ca), St. Joseph, Missouri (Lander Expedition), Stereocard, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80956
Edward J. Ward (act. 1860s), 1869, Total Eclipse of the Sun, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80899
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Woman in bonnet viewed in mirror, Tintype, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80760
André Giroux, 1855 (ca), Maison de Pierre au Bord d'un Torrent, Salt print, from paper negative, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/76042
F.B. Gage, n.d., Untitled, Carte de visite, hand-coloured, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80976
John Thomson, 1870 (ca), Street Vendors, Carte de visite, hand-coloured, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80877
Ilse Bing, 1952, Untitled (Eiffel Tower), Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81254
Unidentified photographer (American), 1855 (ca), Left: Daguerreotypist with tinting box as older man / Right: Daguerreotypist with tinting box as younger man, Daguerreotypes (2), 1/6 plates, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/92775
Charles Nègre, 1852, Arles, pretre lisant dans le cloitre de Saint-Trophime, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81591
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1869, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80742
Harry Callahan, 1946-1947 (ca), Camera Movement on Flashlight, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81508
John Thomson, 1862-1864 (ca), Mode of transit in Cambodia, Carte de visite, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80969
Carl Van Vechten, 1934, Salvador Dali and Man Ray, Paris. June 16, 1934, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81363
Unidentified photographer, 1850-1855 (ca), Portrait of a California gold miner with tousled hair, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/94422
Lockwood & Ely, 1870 (ca), Photographic still life, Carte de visite, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80937
Bisson frères, 1858, St. Mark, Porte Central (St. Mark's Cathedral, Center Door), Venice, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80791
Ruth Bernhard, 1946, Hand, Jones Beach, New York, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81393
Unidentified photographer, 1852, Portrait of a California gold miner, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/94419
Frederick Gutekunst, 1858 (ca), Dumb-Bell Charts in Background (Group at Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children), Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81720
Unidentified photographer, 1943, 9 February, U.S. Navy Posture Testing, J. G. Scordo, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81523
Doris Ulmann, 1925 (ca), Untitled (Man and Machinery), Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81454
Unidentified photographer, 1853 (ca), Factory worker at knitting machine, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80701
John Murray, 1858 (ca), Akbar's Palace, Fatehpur Sikri, India, Paper negative, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81739
Joseph P. Babbitt, 1870, Crew of divers at Pier No. 4, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80815
James Anderson, 1855 (ca), Aqueduct in Roman Countryside, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81603
Marcus Aurelius Root, 1847-1849 (ca), George Caleb Bingham's "Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground", Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/95625
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Portrait of a peasant woman, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80881
John Thomson, 1870 (ca), Canal Boats, Carte de visite, hand-coloured, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80842
Samuel L. Walker (American, 1802 - 1874), 1860 (ca), Street scene (view of Walker's studio), Ambrotype, 1/4 plate, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80751
Unidentified photographer, 1864, Sojourner Truth, Carte de visite, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80817
Charles Soulier, 1865 (ca), Castle of Chillon, Lake Geneva, Switzerland, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80885
Paul-Émile Miot, 1857, Cascade, forêt d'épinettes à Terre Neuve, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80820
Bisson frères, 1858, Pont des Soupirs (Bridge of Sighs), Venice, Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80790
Helen Levitt, 1939 (ca), New York (boy climbing up pole), Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81107
Jean-Jacques Heilmann, 1858 (ca), Barèges, Pyrénées, Salt print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81666
Auguste Rosalie Bisson, 1860 (ca), Wellhorn en Wetterhorn (Suisse), Albumen print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/80904
André Kertész, 1917, 26 September (taken) 1980 (print), The Swing, Esztergom, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81214
   

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