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Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
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Some random images from this collection.
 
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Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 36: Scornful laughter and scornful disgust, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79664
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Intérieur de l'Église Ste Anne, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78106
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, 1. Foglia di Fico 2. Foglia di Spino bianco, ossia Crataegus, Paper Negative - Contact, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/82212
Robert Smithson, 1973, Bingham Copper Mining Pit Utah / Reclamation Project, Photostat and plastic overlay with wax pencil, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6378
Irving Penn, 1985, 1 July, 12 hands of Miles Davis and his trumpet, New York, Photograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/91862
E.J. Bellocq, 1912 (ca, taken) 1980s-1990s (print), [Storyville portrait], Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/127287
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, November, Rangoon: Henzas on the East Side of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78025
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1840s (ca), [Daguerreotype Plate Box], Storage, linden wood, plated iron, iron-gall ink, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85453
Walker Evans, 1936, Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6364
Unidentified photographer, 1880s, [Dragoman in Temple], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79681
Maison Prod'hom, 1860s-1870s, [Studio Portrait: Woman with Straw Basket, Algeria], Carte de visite, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/131936
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Girl with Doll], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95592
Unidentified photographer (British), 1855-1860, [Botanical Specimen: Fern], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79715
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842, Pompey's Column, Alexandria [68. Alexandrie. Colonne de Pompée], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/87269
Lai Afong, 1869 (ca), Temple of Tai-wang at Wu ü near Sing Chang Tea Mart, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77991
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Synagogue juive et environs, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78121
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
Gates Bros., 1865, [Entrance Gorge (Looking Down) - 4th Glen], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95791
R.C. Montgomery, 1850s, [Self-portrait?], Daguerreotype, with applied colour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95714
J.A. Palmer, 1882, The Wilde Woman of Aiken, [Aiken and Vicinity], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113882
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 56: Surprise, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79651
John Beasly Greene, 1853-1854, Etude de Palmiers, Bords du Nil, Kalabschi, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69346
Edmond Bacot, 1852-1854, Portail de la Cathédrale de Louviers, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79806
Ernest Benecke, 1852, [Children from the Village of Kalabshah, Nubia], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40538
Félix Teynard, 1851 (published), Le Kaire, Mosquée Nâcéryeh, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69156
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842-1844, Jerusalem, près de la porte de Jaffa, chap., Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78096
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1843, Capital, Greco-Roman Theater, Miletus, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85458
Herbert G. Ponting, 1927, [Distortograph: William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, Mayor of Chicago], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54286
Désiré Charnay, 1860, February, Second Palace at Mitla, Mexico., Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73872
Unknown Artist (British School), 1870s, Elizabeth Tappenden, [Insane Asylum Patient], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40608
Unidentified photographer (British), 1850s-1860s, [Man Holding Book, Standing Before a Painted Scenic Backdrop], Ambrotype with applied color, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79862
Roger Fenton, 1852, Moscow, Domes of Churches in the Kremlin, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78072
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95773
Goodwin & Company (issued), 1887, Burdock, 2nd Base, Boston, [Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50952
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
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
François-Edmond Fortier, 1900-1912, West Africa, young Wolof girls [Afrique Occidentale, Jeunes Filles Ouolof], Postcard, photomechanical, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61686
Alfred Stieglitz, 1899-1900, Spring Showers, the Coach, Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40349
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Musical Conductor], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95599
Ashford Brothers, 1864 (ca), Upwards of Five Hundred Photographic Portraits of the Most Celebrated Personages of the Age, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79721
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, David Maitland Makgill Crichton, Rankeillour, Waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69446
Diane Arbus, 1958 (ca), Screaming Woman with Blood on Her Hands, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6375
T. Lux Feininger, 1929 (ca), [3 Couples Dancing on the Roof of the Bauhaus], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48874
Francis Frith, 1870 (ca), [Egyptian Obelisk, "Cleopatra's Needle," in Alexandria, Egypt], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69126
Nicolaas Henneman, 1853, summer, Zulu Warrior with Ox-hide Shield, Coated salt or light albumen print, from a wet collodion on glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73881
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Médînet-Abou (Thèbes), Constructions Postérieures - Fragment de Sculptures Sur la Face Nord-Est, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69192
Alphonse Bertillon, 1894-1895, Feneon. Felix. Clerk of the Galerie Berheim Jeune., Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78466
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 66: Head of Arrotino (the spy, the knife grinder, and so on), [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79649
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. (Environs) Tombeau de la vierge, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78116
Luigi Pesce, 1850s, [In the Mosque of the Damegan/The Eunuchs], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49837
J.A. Whipple, 1850s (early), [Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6309
William Henry Brown (American, Charleston, 1808-1883), 1844, Silhouette Portrait of John Marshall, Lithograph, with tint stone, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/16992
Luigi Pesce, 1840s-1860s, (15) [Gate of all Nations, Persepolis, Fars], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79678
Owen Angel, 1880 (ca), Violet seller. Violet Barnes, [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/79536
Charles Sheeler, 1917, Doylestown House - Stairs from Below, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6345
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852, Abâzîz, Intérieure d'un Village Arabe, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69153
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), [Studio Photographer at Work], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95715
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, The 42nd Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh Castle, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69456
Unidentified photographer (American), 1864, Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance", Carte de visite, back, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/101672
Edmond Bénard (French, 1838-1907), 1880s-1890s, François Flameng, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79754
Alfred Stieglitz, 1906, April, The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, Halftone reproduction, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45167
Thomas Eakins, 1883, [Three Children and a Dog Playing in the Creek, July 4, 1883], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78238
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95767
Charles Marie Bouton (1781-1853), n.d., Gothic Chapel, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50978
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Unidentified Boy in Dark Suit], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79866
Malick Sidibé, 1956, Self-Portrait, Photograph, original frame of reverse-painted glass, tape, cardboard and string, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/112453
F. Jay Haynes, 1889-1891, [Self-Portrait at Glacier Bay, Alaska], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79699
Franck (French), 1871, Colonne Vendôme, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/111358
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
Alphonse Bertillon, 1893 (ca), Measurement of Left Middle Finger, Albumen silver prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/113477
Léon Gérard (French, 1817-1896), 1857-1861, Drawing of Christ from Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper", Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/98820
Gustave Le Gray, 1856, The Empress Eugénie at Prayer, Saint-Cloud [Empress Eugénie on a Prie-dieu], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40548
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
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), Old Dominium and Uncle Tom's Tavern. Calaveras Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79622
Choiselat & Ratel, 1845, Landscape with Cottage, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/38279
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), [Hiram Powers's Sculpture of the Greek Slave], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/121598
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
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Nubie. Grand Temple D'Isis A Philoe. Muraille occidentale, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69375
W. Hammerschmidt, 1860 (ca), Porte de la Mosque, Sultan Hassan. Partie Inférieure, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79761
R.B. Bontecou, 1865, April-May, Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50248
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man Wearing Cross Body Satchel], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95598
Roger Fenton, 1855, Landing Place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40413
J.E. Mayall, 1846-1852, [Copy of the Rosetta Stone], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/104097
Edward Ranney, 1993, Taukachi-Konkan, Casma Valley, Peru, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78160
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Edfou, Aspect Générale de la Ville Vue de la Plateforme Centrale du Pylône, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69243
Gustave Le Gray, 1849-1852, [Oak Tree and Rocks, Forest of Fontainebleau], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6306
Owen Angel, 1880 (ca), The Right Worshipful The Mayor of Exeter. Henry Spencer 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/79533
Lewis Dowe, 1860s, [Dowe's Photograph Rooms, Sycamore, Illinois], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95722
Roger Fenton, 1856, Roslin Chapel, South Porch [Rosslyn Chapel, South Porch], Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40570
Charles Fremont (French, 1855-1930), 1894, Chronophotograph, Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45179
Unidentified photographer, 1860s-1880s, [Carpenter or Cabinetmaker Standing Before a Sign Advertising His Trade], Tintype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69134
Unidentified photographer (American), 1850-1855, [Man whittling a stick], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/64757
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-March, Outer Prakarum on the North Side of the Temple of the God Sundareshwara, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78041
Various artists/makers, 1850, Winfield Scott, [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/131193
Unidentified photographer, 1860 (ca), Studio Portrait of Plains Indian, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54748
Richard Barton Hill, 1850s, [Ghulam Muhammad Mosque, Calcutta], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79671
Unidentified photographer, 1857 (ca), [Boy with Orrery, Tellurian, and Other Astronomical Instruments], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95753
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Edfou (Apollonopolis Magna), Galerie Latérale de la Cour et Pronaos, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69242
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, New York 1848-1933 New York), 1890s-1900s, [Hands with Fan], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79677
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), El-Kab (Éléthya), Architecture Hypogéenne - Tombeau de Phapé - Sculptures Pientes, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69252
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 549 Beejapoor - The Citadel - The Audience Hall, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90418
Frederick H. Evans, 1901 (ca), Alvin Langdon Coburn, Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45171
Walker Evans, 1936, Negro Church, South Carolina, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7467
George Barker, 1886, [Stern-Wheeler Arriving at Silver Springs, Florida, after an Overnight Run up the St. Johns, Oklawaha, & Silver Rivers], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78013
Sherrie Levine, 1979, Untitled (President: 4), Collage on paper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7155
Maxime Du Camp, 1850, March, Vue des rapides de la Seconde Cataracte, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79830
Carleton E. Watkins, 1868-1870, Devil's Canyon, Geysers, Looking Down, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/105776
Unknown Artist (British School), 1850s (late), Boys Behind a Science Experiment, Ambrotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40603
Armand Hippolyte Fizeau, 1841 (ca), Maison Élevée Rue St. Georges par M. Renaud, Photogravure, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92371
Jane Martha St. John, 1853-1856, Old Cyprus Trees in Carthusian Convent, Rome, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50967
Alexander Gardner, 1862, September, Burying the Dead on the Battlefield of Antietam, September 1862, Albumen print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/84491
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 82: Lady Macbeth, strong expression of cruelty, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79663
Émile Gsell, 1866, Angle d'Une Cour Intérieure de la Grande Pagode [View of the Court Interior of the Grand Pagoda, Angkor], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40454
Helen Levitt, 1940 (ca), [Walker Evans Seated at Breakfast Table, Curtain Draped on Head, New York City], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77936
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1864 (taken) 1905 (ca, print), George Frederick Watts, Carbon print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77561
   

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