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Edward David Ritton, 1865 (ca), Edward D. Ritton, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97474
Francis D'Avignon (artist, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871), 1851 (ca), Henry and Charles Meade, Lithograph on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80234
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Albert Sands Southworth, Salted paper print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97539
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1851 (ca), Mathew B. Brady, (1823?-15 Jan 1896), Juliette Handy Brady (1822-1887) and Mrs. Haggerty (19th Century), Daguerreotype, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2043
Seneca Ray Stoddard, 1870 (ca), Seneca Ray Stoddard - "Ausable Chasm", Carte de visite, detail, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97469
Nicolaas Henneman, 1847, Edward Anthony, Calotype, paper negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97542
Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1904, US President Theodore Roosevelt, Edith Roosevelt and David Rowland at the Universal Exposition in St Louis, Missouri, Photograph, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/84940
Unidentified photographer, 1847 (ca), Frederick Douglass, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/33086
Unidentified photographer, 1859 (ca), George Armstrong Custer, Ambrotype, 1/4 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113651
Davis Garber, 1885 (ca), Jacob Riis (3 May 1849 - 26 May 1914), Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2053
Unidentified artist, 1863, 10 June (date of invoice), Meade Brothers invoice, Document, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80216
Randall Studio, 1870 (ca), Sojourner Truth, Albumen print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/53133
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Jenny Lind, 6 Oct 1821 - 2 Nov 1887, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113862
Unidentified photographer, 1847 (ca, taken) 1850 (ca, after, copy), Frederick Douglass, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/72899
Unidentified photographer, 1875 (ca), Henry Rocher, Collotype-like process, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/115503
Adam Clark Vroman, 1904, Self-portrait of photographer Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916), Arizona, Apache, Canyon de Chelly, Platinum print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/119616
Meade Brothers Studio, 1860 (ca), The Pantaloon from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages" of Man, [Seven Ages of Man], Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97491
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1874 (ca), Wheeler Survey Members, including George Montague Wheeler; Timothy O'Sullivan, Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2060
Ezra Greenleaf Weld, 1850, Frederick Douglass at Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York, Daguerreotype, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/68725
Unidentified photographer, n.d., James Gardner, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97477
C.M. Bell, 1881?, John Roy Lynch (10 Sep 1847 - 2 Nov 1939), Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2051
Josiah Johnson Hawes, 1895 (ca), Josiah Johnson Hawes (20 Feb 1808-7 Aug 1901), Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2050
Unidentified artist, 1863, 4 July, The scourged back, Magazine illustration, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/50447
Alexander Gardner, 1863 (ca), Backmark for "Gardner, Corner 7th & D Sts, Washington, D.C.", Carte de visite, back, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97480
Bradley & Rulofson, 1875 (ca), William Rulofson, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97531
Meade Brothers Studio, 1859 (ca), Henry W. M. Meade with Sarah A. Meserole Meade, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80227
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Albert Sands Southworth, Salted paper print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80223
Abraham Bogardus, 1872 (ca), Sarah Bernhardt, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97475
Alexander Gardner, 1863 (ca), Timothy O'Sullivan, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97479
Mathew B. Brady, 1852 (ca), Brady's National Gallery of Daguerreotypes, Advertisement, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97497
Peter Krasnow, 1925, Edward Henry Weston (24 Mar 1886 - 1 Jun 1958), Oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2059
Mathew B. Brady, 1856, John Draper, Ambrotype, 1/2 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113649
Anderson (785 Broadway), 1870 (ca), Thomas Alva Edison, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97485
John Goldin & Company, 1865 (ca), George Armstrong Custer, Carte de visite, Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113653
Meade Brothers Studio, 1860 (ca), The Lover from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages" of Man, [Seven Ages of Man], Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97488
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1863, Mathew Brady at Gettysburg, Photograph, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80221
Southworth & Hawes, 1848 (ca), Josiah Johnson Hawes, Albert Francis Hawes and Charles Ebenezer Hawes, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80235
Unidentified photographer / Unidentified artist, 1860 (ca), The Third and Last Committee of Conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the Army Appropriation Bill, Retouched composite salted paper print mounted on cardboard, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113644
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Soap Factory Workers, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97555
J.A. Whipple, 1860 (ca), John A. Whipple, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80233
William Illingworth, 1874, Our first Grizzly, killed by General Custer, [Stereographs of the Black Hills], Stereoview, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113654
Unidentified photographer, 1859 (ca), George Armstrong Custer, Ambrotype, 1/4 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113652
Unidentified photographer, 1875 (ca), John Carbutt, Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97536
Alexander Gardner, 1863 (ca), Backmark for "Gardner, Corner 7th & D Sts, Washington, D.C.", Carte de visite, back, detail, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97481
John Plumbe Jr., 1847, John Plumbe, Jr. Self-Portrait, [The National Plumbeotype Gallery], Lithograph, on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2058
Meade Brothers Studio, 1854 (or later), Plaque "To Washington An Humble Tribute from Two Disciples of Daguerre" placed by the Meade Brothers at the Washington Monument, Daguerreotype, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/70662
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Soap Factory Workers, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97561
Harroun & Bierstadt, 1880, Members of the Photographers' Association of America, Artotype, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/106160
William Notman, n.d., William Notman, Artotype, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97537
Harroun & Bierstadt, 1880 (ca), Henry Draper (7 Mar 1837-20 Nov 1882), Carbon print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2045
Mathew B. Brady, 1863, Peter (formerly identified as "Gordon"), Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/50446
Mathew B. Brady, 1856, John Draper, Ambrotype, 1/2 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113650
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Soap Factory Workers, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97553
Seneca Ray Stoddard, 1870 (ca), Seneca Ray Stoddard - "Ausable Chasm", Carte de visite, detail, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97470
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Soap Factory Workers, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97556
Unidentified photographer, 1847 (ca), Frederick Douglass, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/127006
Mathew B. Brady, 1853 (ca), M. B. Brady at the World's Fair in London, Engraving, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97504
Unidentified photographer, 1856, Frederick Douglass, Ambrotype, 1/4 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/127007
Unidentified photographer, 1900 (ca), Jacob Riis (3 May 1849 - 26 May 1914), Gelatin silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2054
Unidentified photographer, 1872 (ca), Herman Vogel, Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97534
Benjamin Maxham, 1856, Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862), Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/76470
Alexander Gardner, 1868 (ca), Gardner's Photographic Art Gallery, Wood engraving, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97522
Auguste Edouart (1788-1861), 1842, George Washington Whistler and Lady Whistler Haden, Silhouette, ink, chalk and cut paper on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/84793
Unidentified artist, n.d., Elmer Ellsworth, Oil painting, detail, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/81864
Mathew B. Brady, 1854, Brady's Daguerreotypes, Advertisement, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97498
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Portrait of Jeremiah Gurney, Albumen print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/68722
Unidentified artist, 1863, 4 July, Harper's Weekly, Magazine page, engraving on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/50449
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Soap Factory Workers, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97560
Meade Brothers Studio, 1860 (ca), The Soldier from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages" of Man, [Seven Ages of Man], Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97489
Unidentified photographer, 1849 (ca), Seth Boyden, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80230
Benjamin Maxham, 1856, Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862), Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/76467
Meade Brothers Studio, 1865 (ca), Henry William Mathew Meade, Photograph, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80219
I.W. Taber, 1885 (ca), Isiah Taber, Cabinet card, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97532
Powell & Co., 1865, Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture, Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113642
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Jenny Lind, 6 Oct 1821 - 2 Nov 1887, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113863
Washington Lafayette Germon, 1870 (ca), Business card of Washington Germon, Business card, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97473
Seneca Ray Stoddard, 1870 (ca), Seneca Ray Stoddard - "Ausable Chasm", Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97468
Marcus Aurelius Root, 1851, Broadside for Marcus & Samuel Root Daguerreotypes, Broadside, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97502
N. Thomas (artist, 1825-1925?), 1861, Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, Lithograph, hand-colored, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/81863
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1863, Road Outside Culpeper, VA With Photographer's Wagon, Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97519
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Soap Factory Workers, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97554
Mathew B. Brady, 1864 (ca, taken) 1890 (c, print), George Armstrong Custer, [1861 The War For the Union 1865 / 1861 Photographic War History 1865], Stereoview, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113641
Unidentified photographer, 1863, Abraham, Albumen print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/130682
Meade Brothers Studio, 1853, Interior View of Meade Brothers' Daguerreotype Gallery, Broadway, New York, Wood engraving on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97500
Meade Brothers Studio, 1860 (ca, copy of earlier print), Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Photographic negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97549
Unidentified artist / maker, 1808 (ca), Rev. Absalom Jones of the Affrican Church Philada., Liverpool ware jug, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/84795
Harris & Ewing Studio (active 1905-1977), 1905 (ca), Harris & Ewing Studio (interior), Gelatin silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97535
John K. Hillers, 1874, John Wesley Powell with Tau-ruv, a Ute woman, Stereocard, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/95922
Francis D'Avignon (artist, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871) / Albert Hoffman (artist, active 1849-1854), 1849, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Lithograph on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80228
Meade Brothers Studio, 1865 (ca), Henry William Mathew Meade and Sarah Meade, Tintype, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80218
Meade Brothers Studio, 1860 (ca), The Infant from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages" of Man, [Seven Ages of Man], Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97486
Meade Brothers Studio, 1853 (daguerreotype) 1860 (ca, copy), Chateau of Daguerre at Bry-Sur-Marne, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97494
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Soap Factory Workers, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97558
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Soap Factory Workers, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97559
Unidentified photographer, 1863 (ca), George Armstrong Custer, Ambrotype, 1/2 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113655
Sarony, 1895 (ca), Napoleon Sarony (9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896), Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97540
Sarony, 1895 (ca), Napoleon Sarony (9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896), Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2057
Allen & Rowell, 1870 (ca), Albert Southworth, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80232
Francis D'Avignon (artist, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871), 1851, Mathew B. Brady, Lithograph on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80222
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Jenny Lind, 6 Oct 1821 - 2 Nov 1887, Photographic Negative, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113864
Unidentified artist, 1863 (?), The Views of Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South, Illustrated from the Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation by Mrs Frances Anne Kemble, [Philadelphia? : s.n., 1863?], Cover, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/50448
Charles DeForest Fredricks, 1870 (ca), Charles D. Fredricks, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97538
Auguste Edouart (1788-1861), 1843, Thomas Sully, Silhouette, ink, chalk and cut paper on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/84794
William E. Bowman, 1865 (ca), William E. Bowman, Carte de visite, detail, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97484
Jacob A. Riis, 1901 (ca), Jacob Riis (3 May 1849 - 26 May 1914), Gelatin silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2055
Jose Mora, 1870 (ca), George Armstrong Custer, Carte de visite, Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113656
Jeremiah Gurney, 1854, J. Gurney's Premium Daguerreotype Gallery, 349 Broadway, New York, Advertisement, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97499
Unidentified photographer, 1851 (ca), Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins (25 Jul 1844-25 Jun 1916) and Frances Eakins (1848-?), Daguerreotype, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2046
Meade Brothers Studio, 1862 (ca), Meade Brothers frontispiece for albums, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97496
Sarony, 1890 (ca), Napoleon Sarony (9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896), Photogravure, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2056
Meade Brothers Studio, 1860 (ca), Second Childishness from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages" of Man, [Seven Ages of Man], Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97492
Broadway Photo Studio, 1917, 21 June, Portrait multiple de Marcel Duchamp (Five-Way Portrait of Marcel Duchamp), Gelatin silver print, photo postcard, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/47494
Meade Brothers Studio, 1860 (ca), The School Boy from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages" of Man, [Seven Ages of Man], Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97487
Francis D'Avignon (artist, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871), 1851, John Adams Whipple, Lithograph on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/80231
Thomas Faris (1814 - ?), 1851, Jenny Lind, 6 Oct 1821 - 2 Nov 1887, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113860
Bishop & Gray Studio, 1843, John Quincy Adams, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/60153
Currier & Ives Lithography Company (active 1857-1907), 1861 (ca), Elmer Ellsworth, Lithograph, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/81862
McClees & Vannerson (active 1857-1860) (copy after John Hawley Clarke), 1852 (original) 1858 (copy), Billy Bowlegs, Salted paper print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113640
Frederick Gutekunst, 1865 (ca), Unidentified man, formerly alleged to be Frederick Gutekunst, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97478
William E. Bowman, 1865 (ca), William E. Bowman, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97483
Meade Brothers Studio, 1853, Interior View of Meade Brothers' Daguerreotype Gallery, Broadway, New York, Wood engraving on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97501
Meade Brothers Studio, 1860 (ca), The Justice from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages" of Man, [Seven Ages of Man], Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97490
Thomas Faris (1814 - ?), 1851, Jenny Lind, 6 Oct 1821 - 2 Nov 1887, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113861
Unidentified photographer, 1873, 2 January, William Henry Jackson, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97476
Mathew Brady's Studio, 1860-1870 (ca), Soap Factory Workers, Glass plate collodion negative, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97557
Almon Harris Thompson (1839-1906) or Grove Karl Gilbert (1843-1918), 1875, John K. Hillers (1843-1925) inspecting a photographic plate in Utah while surrounded by his equipment,, Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/95911
L.H. Griffin, 1858, Business card for L. H. Griffin's Ambrotype Rooms, Business card, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97505
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1890 (ca), Abraham Bogardus,1822 - 1908, Albumen silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/2042
Alexander Gardner, 1863, Alexander Gardner, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/45551
Meade Brothers Studio, 1853 (daguerreotype) 1860 (ca, copy), Monument at the Tomb of Daguerre, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97495
   

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