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Unidentified photographer / artist, 1851, [Plate 7 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Fourth to Fifth Streets], Advertisement, Library Company of Philadelphia, LL/51039
1851, Book cover for Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations 1851: Reports by the Juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided, vol. II, (Spicer Brothers), Book cover, Rijksmuseum, LL/79282
Le Gray & Mestral, 1851, Poitiers (Vienne) - Façade ouest, église Notre-Dame-la-Grande [West front of the church of Notre-Dame-la-Grande, Poitiers], Waxed paper negative, Musée d'Orsay, LL/76176