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Some random images from this collection.
 
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Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-March, Side Colonnade in the Muroothappa Sarvacar Mundapam, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78035
Harry Burton, 1926-1927, Winter, Smashed statuary of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut as discovered by Metropolitan Museum of Art excavators in an ancient quarry northeast of her temple at Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Luxor., Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/67548
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
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 547 Beejapoor - The Citadel - Ruins at the back of the Harem, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90416
Francis Frith, 1857 (ca), Principal Source of the Jordan, Flowing From a Cave Near Banias, Near the Site of the Northern City of Dan, the Frontier Town of Israel, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78151
Alexander Gardner, 1865, March, Copying Maps, Photographic Headquarters, Petersburg, Virginia, Albumen print, from glass negative, detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53139
E.J. Bellocq, 1912 (ca, taken) 1980s-1990s (print), [Storyville portrait], Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/127283
Francis Bedford, 1870s, Colwyn Bay. Rustic Bridge in the Wood, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50948
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, 1854-1856, Des nouvelles occupations en Styrie [New Occupations in Styrie], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40325
Thomas Eakins, 1880s, [Thomas Eakins in Swim Suit], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78240
Roger Fenton, 1855, Landing Place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40413
Roger Fenton, 1854, [Royal Children in Tableau of the Seasons], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79700
Wilhelm von Gloeden, 1900 (ca), Little orphans from the Messina Earthquake, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/102702
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Woman in Profile with Lace Collar and Shawl], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/126882
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Bonaly Towers. Home of Lord Cockburn, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69445
Walker Evans, 1936, [Double-Steepled Wooden Church with Sapling Planted in Front, Alabama], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105545
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 546 Beejapoor - The Citadel - The Makkah Musjid, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90415
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man in Long Red Coat], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95612
John Murray, 1858, Suttee Ghat Cawnpore ["Suttee Ghat Cawnpore," Scene of the Mutiny Massacre, Kanpur, India], Paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40434
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), El-Nâcérah, Dattiers, Rives du Nil et Barques, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69213
Walker Evans, 1933, People in Downtown Havana, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78171
Cundall & Delamotte, 1850s, Fountains Abbey. Interior of the Choir, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77951
E. A. Schwerdtfeger & Co, Berlin (publisher), 1914, Ein kräftiger Zusammenstoss [A powerful collision], Gelatin silver print, postcard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/16996
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), IIIe Station. Jésus tombe pour la première fois. Une colonne brisée et entendue a terre indique la place de cette station au lieu où la voie douloureuse tourne brusquement a gauche, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78144
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1850-1860s, [Portrait of a Youth], Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7455
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1850-1858, Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40552
James Wallace Black, 1860, Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40553
Auguste Salzmann, 1854, Jérusalem, Casque trouvé dans le Jourdain, 1, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79849
Félix Bonfils, 1860s-1870s, [Studio Portrait: Mahomedan Cripples, Beirut, Syria], Carte de visite, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115890
Émile Béchard, 1870s, Thèbes, Temple de Ramasseum, Colosses brisés, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78153
Arnold Genthe, 1906, After the Earthquake, San Francisco, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50988
James Deane (author, American, 1801-1858) / Unidentified photographer, 1861 (published), Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River, Salted paper prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77961
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95781
W. L. Germon (American) / W. Penny (American), 1855 (ca), [Family Portrait], Salted paper prints, with applied media, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79813
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69453
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
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), XIe Station. Jésus est cloué sur la croix. Cette station se trouve placée au pied même de l'autel., Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78126
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, 1 September - 21 October, Amerapoora: Shwe-doung-dyk Pagoda, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/59091
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95780
Cundall & Delamotte, 1850s, Fountains Abbey. The Chapel of the Nine Alters, Interior, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77959
Owen Angel, 1880 (ca), Queen of the Fairies. Marian Eleanor Follett, [Follett Family Album of Children Costumed for a Fancy Dress Ball], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79535
Alphonse Bertillon, 1901-1908, [Album of Paris Crime Scenes], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40517
Unknown artist (American School), 1853-1855, [Chatham Square, New York], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40495
W. & F. Langenheim, 1854, 26 May, Eclipse of the Sun, May 26, 1854, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/33211
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, 1854-1856, [Album of photographs], Album, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40348
Jean Leon Gerome (1824-1904), 1871, Prayer in the Mosque, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/66609
Samuel Fosso, 1975 (taken) 2003 (print), Self Portrait, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61694
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. (Environs) Tombeau de la vierge, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78116
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man Wearing Blue Top Hat], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95616
Unidentified photographer / artist, 2012, Publicity for Faking it: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 11, 2012-January 27, 2013), Publicity, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49190
Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg, 1844 (ca), Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/119280
Charles Clifford, 1853, Principal Doorway of the Carthusian Monastery, Burgos, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25996
Richard Barton Hill, 1850s, [View of the City from the Ochterlony Monument, Calcutta], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40375
Roger Fenton, 1852, South Front of the Kremlin from the Old Bridge, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40415
Suzuki Shin'ichi I, 1870s, [Woman in Traditional Japanese Garment Photographed from Behind], Albumen silver print, from glass negative with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78058
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, No. 193a. Old Ponton Bridge at Prairie du chien, Wisconsin, Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79874
Walker Evans, 1955, July (published), Stahls chain-nose pliers, from Eskilstuna, Sweden, $2.49, [Beauty of the Common Tool - Fortune magazine], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/128840
Antoine Claudet, 1846-1852, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90454
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 6: The grimice produced is similar to a tic of the face, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79635
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
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 21: Painful recollection and recollection or calling something to mind, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79644
Walker Evans, 1929-1934, [Basket, Bracelets, and Peppermint Sticks], Film negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77941
Various artists/makers, 1850, John C. Calhoun, [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/131191
Lewis Carroll, 1870, 5 July, "The Prettiest Doll in the World", Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69481
Emily Clare Harvey, 1868, Robert William Shaw [Decorated album page], [The Harvey Album], Albumen silver print, album page, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79547
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 539. Beejapoor - The Jumma Musjid, Interior under the Great Centre Dome, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90408
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95786
Eugène Druet (French, 1868-1917), 1898 (before), [The Clenched Hand], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40554
Ernest Benecke, 1852, 20 February, Egyptian Musicians (Rawabí) and Almée, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77965
Unidentified photographer, 1870 (ca), [Two Women], Tintype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78953
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844-1846, The Pencil of Nature, Illustrated books, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45174
Unidentified photographer (French School), 1907-1908, [Imprint of Eusapia Palladino's Hands], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40490
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95776
Paul Strand, 1916, Harold Greengard, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, Silver-platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6344
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95782
Unidentified photographer, 1865 (ca), [The Calf-Bearer and the Kritios Boy Shortly After Exhumation on the Acropolis], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40478
Unidentified photographer (American), 1850s, [Man Holding Glasses in Front of Painted Outdoor Backdrop], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73869
Henry P. Bosse, 1889, No. 181. Marshall Ave. Bridge, Minneapolis & St. Paul, Cyanotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79877
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Djébel Selséleh (Silsilis), Steles Architecturales Taillées Dans les Carriéres, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69240
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Une rue de Jérusalem et entrée du Grand Couvent, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78117
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 53: Whimpering and false laughter, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79662
Unknown Artist (American School), 1910 (ca), [Man with Dead Raccoons], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40599
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Erment (Hermonthis), Vue Générale des Ruines -Temple et Mammisi, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69249
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), VIIIe Station. Jésus console les filles de Jérusalem. Ici encore une simple marque faite sur le fut d'une colonne encastrée dans le mur indique la station., Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78140
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), Miss Hodges of Salem, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/66876
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, May-June, Elliot Marbles and Other Sculpture from the Central Museum Madras: Group 26, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78040
John Beasly Greene, 1853-1854, Etude de Palmiers, Bords du Nil, Kalabschi, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69346
Henry Fox Talbot, 1858 (or later), [Dandelion Seeds], Photogravure (photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate), Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40604
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Haute-Égypte. Entrée de la première Cataracte, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69367
John Murray, 1862-1864, The Diwan-i Khas from the Mussaman Burj, Agra Palace, Waxed paper negative, with applied media, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78010
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Foglia di Peonia, Photogenic drawing contact negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/82209
Southworth & Hawes, 1855, [View Down Brattle Street from the Southworth & Hawes Studio at 5 1/2 Tremont Row, Boston], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40614
Walker Evans, 1936, Floyd Burroughs, a cotton sharecropper Hale County, AL, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/33254
Gustave Le Gray, 1849-1852, [Oak Tree and Rocks, Forest of Fontainebleau], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6306
Charles Paxson, 1863, Wilson, Branded Slave from New Orleans, Carte de visite, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/100921
Johannes Vermeer (Artist), 1656-1657 (ca), A Maid Asleep, OIl on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/42253
Louis Pierson, 1856-1857 (taken) 1861-1866 (print), [Portrait in a White Dress], Salted paper print, from glass negative, hand-painted, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40387
Unidentified photographer, 1870s, Cedars of Lebanon, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/67556
Alfred Stieglitz, 1900-1901 (taken) 1903-1904 (print), The Street, Fifth Avenue, Photogravure, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45164
John Moran, 1871, Tropical Scenery, Darien Harbor, Chipigana, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95800
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95768
Édouard Baldus, 1861 (ca), Entrée du Robinet, [Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40499
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man Sitting at Cocktail Table], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95600
Jane Martha St. John, 1853-1856, St. Peter's from the Pincian Hill [Rome], Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50965
Félix Bonfils, 1860s-1870s, Backmark for "F. Bonfils a Beyrouth (Syrie)", Carte de visite, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115891
Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, Scott Monument before Completion, Edinburgh, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69490
Walker Evans, 1973-1974, [Abandoned House], Instant Color print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6379
Mathew B. Brady, 1860s, Mathew B. Brady's Studio Camera and Tripod, Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50261
   

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