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Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
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Some random images from this collection.
 
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Louis Auguste Bisson, 1841-1848, [Profile of a Woman with Necrosis of the Nose], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78385
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1840s (ca), [Daguerreotype Plate Box], Storage, linden wood, plated iron, iron-gall ink, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85449
Charles-Albert Arnoux Bertall, 1881, [Turkish Woman, 18 Years Old, Born in Pitesci (Romania)], Cyanotype, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48792
Alphonse Bertillon, 1901-1908, [Album of Paris Crime Scenes], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40520
Unidentified photographer, 1846, 7 February (before), M. Claudet & Mension [sic] with a Palette, Varnished salted paper print, from a calotype negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/75836
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852, Louksor (Thèbes), Construction Postérieure - Galeries - Parallèles, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69154
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852, Abou Sembil, Grand Spéos - Statues Colossales, Vues de Trois-Quarts, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69159
Unidentified photographer (American), 1848 (ca), Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton), Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90495
Maxime Du Camp, 1849-1851, Palais de Karnak, sculptures extérieures du sanctuaire de granit., Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73891
Luigi Pesce, 1852-1855 (ca), Portrait of Nasir al-Din Shah, Salt print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49840
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Ile de Fîleh (Philæ), Édifice de l'Est - Façade Occidentale - Vue du Point E, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69237
Alphonse Bertillon, 1901-1908, [Album of Paris Crime Scenes], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40517
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1870, Return of Commander Selfridge and his Reconnaissance Party from an Expedition in the Interior of Darien, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79725
Unidentified photographer (French), 1860s, Saddle Mounted Cannon, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79753
Alfred Stieglitz, 1915, From the Back Window, 291, Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6341
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Two Young Women Reclining [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61692
Frederick Gutekunst, 1890s, [Girl with Ringlets, Half Length], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53146
Henry Fox Talbot, 1846 (ca), [Nos. 170-176 Regent Street, London], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79855
Unidentified photographer, 1870s, The Far East: A Monthly Journal, Illustrated with Photographs, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79687
Mathew B. Brady, 1860s, Mathew B. Brady's Studio Camera and Tripod, Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50262
Carleton E. Watkins, 1865-1866 (taken) 1876 (ca, print), Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105780
Le Dien & Le Gray, 1853 (ca), Pompeii, Pompey's Lane, Tomb Monument of Mamia, Salted paper print, from a waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73863
Walker Evans, 1936, Window Display of Photographer's Studio, Birmingham, AL, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/33253
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-February, Entrance to the Temple of Minakshi in the Great Pagoda, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78030
Paul Strand, 1916, Harold Greengard, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, Silver-platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6344
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, Bromus Maximus, Genoa - Bromus scaberrimus, [Album di disegni fotogenici - The Bertoloni Album, Leaf 8 Recto], Photogenic drawing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40624
Robert Howlett, 1857 (taken) 1863-1864 (printed), [Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79543
Arnold Genthe, 1895-1908, The Vegetable Peddler, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50989
Unidentified photographer, 1910s, Portrait of a woman [Saint Louis, Senegal], Postcard, gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61687
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, 17 August, A Group Taking Tea at Lacock Abbey, Salt print, from calotype negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/66915
Unidentified photographer (French School), 1906, April - July, [Divan Inside the Cabinet Used for Séances at the Institut Général Psychologique], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40487
Alphonse Bertillon, 1891-1895, [Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40400
Thomas Eakins, 1883 (ca), [Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace at the Shore], Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6331
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95789
Edmond Bacot, 1852-1854, Portail des Marmousets, Saint-Ouen de Rouen, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79816
Giacomo Caneva, 1852 (ca), View from the French Academy at the Villa Medici, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54197
Cundall & Delamotte, 1850s, Fountains Abbey. The Chapel of the Nine Alters, Interior, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77959
Auguste Salzmann, 1854, Jérusalem, Mosquée d'Omar, côté Nord, Intérieur de l'enceinte, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79841
Alexander Gardner, 1865, March, Copying Maps, Photographic Headquarters, Petersburg, Virginia, Albumen print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53138
Appert Brothers, 1870-1871, Prison des Chantiers, le 15 août 1871, Versailles, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78477
Lai Afong, 1869 (ca), Chui Nang opposite Kien-yang city, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77994
Gustave Le Gray, 1852, Louis-Napoléon, Prince-President of the Republic, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40356
Comptoir Photo de l'A. O. F. (Dakar, Senegal, processing lab), 1930s-1940s, Photo Sleeve for Negatives and Prints, Photo sleeve, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61684
J.A. Palmer, 1882, The Wilde Woman of Aiken, [Aiken and Vicinity], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113882
Alfred Rudolph Waud (American, born Great Britain, 1828-1891), 1870 (ca), [Woman in an Interior], Tintype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40546
Dominique Roman, 1855 (ca), [Model of a P.L.M. Locomotive], Paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45177
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Unidentified Woman in Nine Oval Views], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40612
Benneville Lloyd Singley (American, Union Township, Pennsylvania 1864-1938 Meadville, Pennsylvania), 1850s-1910, Tower of London, London, England, Stereoview, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115289
Unidentified photographer (American), 1840s (late) - 1854, George Lippard, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79357
Unidentified photographer, 1863 (ca), Sergeant Alex Rogers with Battle Flag, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Carte de visite, albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50249
Robert Capa, 1938, April, A woman mourns her husband, killed in the battle of Taierhchwang, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/116577
Gustave Le Gray, 1857, [Painting of The Campfires at Camp de Chalons by Bénédict Masson], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40472
Thomas C. Roche, 1865, [Depot Field Hospital, City Point, Virginia], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40585
Neurdein Frères, 1889, La Tour Eiffel. - Détail du Campanile., Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79755
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Ile de Fîleh (Philæ), Édifice de l'Est - Face Latérale Vue du Point D, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69248
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 3: The face of an old man… photographed in repose., [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79640
John Beasly Greene, 1856, [Fragment of an Egyptian Statue in the Museum at Cherchell, Algeria], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69348
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Nubie. Rive Orientale du Nil (Village de Bab). Vue prise au sud de Philoe, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69379
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Woman on Ladder, Holding Spyglass with Man Holding Ladder, and Dog Standing on Hind Legs], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95609
Unknown (French School), 1916, La Grande Nef - Le maniement d'armes des blessés en fin de traitement [The Great Nave: Wounded Soldiers Performing Arms Drill at the End of Their Medical Treatment], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40448
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, September-October, Colossal Statue of Gautama Close to the North End of the Bridge, Amerapoora, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25999
Louis-Emile Durandelle, 1870 (ca), [Charles Garnier in the Drafting Room While Designing the New Paris Opera], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79717
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Mur oú pleurent les juifs. Grandes Assises du Temple de Salomon, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78134
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Palestine. Jérusalem. Partie occidentale des Murailles, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69369
Henry Fox Talbot, 1835 or 1839, [the Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey], Photogenic drawing negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6303
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), James King of William. Keyston State etc. Calaveras Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79623
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842, 43. Toscanella Eglise de S. Pietro, apside, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78094
Jean-Baptiste Frenet, 1855 (ca), [Boy in Uniform], Paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/125148
William Langenheim, 1848-1850 (ca), William Langenheim, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92014
Unidentified photographer (British), 1851, [Victor Alexander Bruce (1849-1917), 1st Son of the 8th Earl of Elgin (Canada)], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/124148
Unidentified photographer (French), 1850 (ca), [Nude with Mirror], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79863
James Peter Knight, 1853-1856, In the Garden. Blenheim, Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73889
Édouard Baldus, 1856 (ca), [Plaster Model of an Ornamental Oeil-de-Boeuf for the New Louvre], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40523
E.J. Bellocq, 1912 (ca, taken) 1980s-1990s (print), [Storyville portrait], Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/127285
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1824-1834 (ca), Odalisque in Grisaille, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78406
Mathew B. Brady, 1860s, Mathew B. Brady's Studio Camera and Tripod, Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50259
Nadar, 1888 (ca), Mlle. Bernhardt, Paris, [Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1)], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50961
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 527. Beejapoor - Ibrahim Rozah - The Mosque, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90396
Lai Afong, 1869 (ca), Piled Stone Mountain Near Sing Chang, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77987
Louis Pierson, 1856-1857, [Countess de Castiglione in Black Cloak, Head on Hand, Leaning at Studio Window], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40321
Émile Gsell, 1866, Cochine et Cambodge, [Cochine et Cambodge], Albumen silver prints, from glass negatives, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7452
Félix Bonfils, 1870 (ca), Caire. Allée de Pyramides, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115900
John Beasly Greene, 1853-1854, Etude de Palmiers, Bords du Nil, Kalabschi, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69346
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), The Pride of the Forest - Calaveras Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79587
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut, 1854-1856, Mlle. Jeanne tellement tremblante que le photographe ne peut pas fixer les yeux [Mademoiselle Jeanne Who Trembled So Much], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40330
Unidentified photographer (French School), 1900 (ca), [Various Recording Devices on Table], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40488
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, 1853 (ca), [Female nude, reclining, with arm raised (#1940)], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7727
Unidentified photographer (British), 1850s, [Colosseum, Rome], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77968
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man Carrying Umbrellas], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95594
Félix Bonfils, 1870 (ca), Beyrouth. Vu du collège américain, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115899
Linnaeus Tripe, 1857, December - 1858, January, Beekinpully: Permaul's Swing at Mariammah Covil, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/59095
Thomas Eakins, 1880s, [Thomas Eakins in Swim Suit], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78240
Ann Parker, 1970s, Country Boy in front of National Palace Backdrop, Sololá, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78389
Charles Conway (British, active 1850s), 1855, Winter, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45901
Gustave Le Gray, 1856 (ca), Fontainebleau, chemin sablonneux montant, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/67551
Félix Bonfils, 1860s-1870s, Backmark for "F. Bonfils a Beyrouth (Syrie)", Carte de visite, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115891
Charles Hippolyte Aubry, 1864, [Study of Leaves on a Background of Floral Lace], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40474
Louis Pierson, 1863, 10 February, Portrait of Countess Virginia Oldoini di Castiglione., Photograph on glass, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/114589
Frederick Gutekunst, 1890s, [Girl with Ringlets, Seated, Three-Quarter Length], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53147
Hippolyte-Auguste Collard, 1871, [The Vendôme Column After Being Torn Down by the Communards], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/111359
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95763
Alphonse Bertillon, 1894, Luce. Maximilien. 36 ans, né le 13/3/58 à Paris VIIe. Artiste-peintre. Anarchiste. 6/7/94., Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78465
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 39: The attention attracted by an object that provokes lascivious ideas and desires., [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79657
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Ve Station. Jésus aidé par Simon de Cyrène. Une marque dans le mur indique seule cette station. La maison que l'on voit au fond est celle du mauvais riche, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78143
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1864 (taken) 1913 (ca, print), Ellen Terry, at the age of sixteen, Carbon print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77564
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Five Feathers, Paper Negative-Contact, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/126489
Calvert Richard Jones, 1850s, [Temple of Antonius and Faustina, San Lorenzo in Miranda, Rome], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54207
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, [Old Royal High School, Calton Hill, Edinburgh], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69444
Henry Fox Talbot, n.d., Shark egg casing (North Atlantic cat or dog shark), Paper Negative - Contact, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/82210
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Electro-Physiologie, Figure 64, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79629
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Roller Skate and Boot., Carte de visite, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/130450
Alphonse De Launay, 1854, Patio de los Arrayanes, Alhambra, Granada, Spain, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95754
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Ie Station. Jésus est condamné à mort. Une cour intérieure de la caserne turque où la tradition place l'endroit du prêtoire où Jésus fut jugé, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78149
Félix Bonfils, 1860s-1870s, [Studio Portrait: Mahomedan Cripples, Beirut, Syria], Carte de visite, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115890
Calvert Richard Jones, 1840s (late), [Young Man], Paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40530
Franck (French), 1871, Colonne Vendôme, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/111358
Gustave Le Gray, 1867, Fête de S. A. Ismail Pacha à bord des bateaux de S. S. A. les princes, Albumen print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40318
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Médînet-Abou (Thèbes), Construction Antérieures - Vue Générale, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69214
Unidentified photographer, 1850s (late) - 1860s, [Man Demonstrating Patent Model for Sash Window], Tintype, with applied colour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/131805
   

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