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Charles Marville, 1856, Statue of Clovis, Church of Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, Salted paper print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92668
Jacob D. Byerly, 1855 (ca), Frederick, Maryland, Daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128253
Charles Nègre, 1854 (ca, taken) 1857 (ca, print), Cathédrale de Chartres - Portique du Midi XIIe Siècle, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92688
Antonio Shindler, 1868, Alexander Gardner, William Henry Jackson, and Antonio Zeno Shindler with Pueblo delegates Alejandro Padilla, Governor of Isleta, and Ambrosio Abeita, Ex-Governor of Isleta, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117769
Lewis Carroll, 1860, Lorina and Alice Liddell in Chinese Dress, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/77649
Giorgio Sommer, 1873, Impronte Umane, Pompei (Human Cast, Pompeii), Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117810
Charles Marville, 1851 (ca), Salle des Cariatides, au Musée du Louvre, Salted paper print, from paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92663
William J. Stillman, 1882, Propylaea from the Southwest, Carbon print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54903
Robert Frank, 1956, Butte, Montana, [The Americans], Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130110
Édouard Baldus, 1855 (ca), Abbaye du Gard pres d' Abbeville, Salted paper print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117725
Conrad Rippel (artist, American, 1853-1936), 1890s (ca), Portrait of a Tinware Advertising Woman, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128277
Unidentified photographer (America), 1855 (ca), Portrait of a Man, Daguerreotype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128255
Thomas H. Johnson, 1863-1865 (ca), Waymart, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117752
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1855-1856, Fortification above Balaclava Harbor, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76785
Unidentified photographer (America), 1860s, Portrait of a Woman Washing Dishes, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128259
Roger Fenton, 1858, Lichfield Cathedral from the North-west, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54888
Alfred Stieglitz, 1921, Georgia O'Keeffe-Hands and Grapes, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/103604
Asahel Curtis, 1910, The King of the Seas in the Hands of the Makahs, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117797
Alexander Svoboda, 1866, Gigantic Head Cut in the Solid Rock, Lately Discovered near Smyrna at the Entrance of a Cave, [The Seven Churches of Asia], Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/123832
Felice Beato, 1860, Mosque Near Pekin Occupied by the Commander-in-Chief and Lord Elgin, October 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76822
Eadweard Muybridge, 1879, Studies of Foreshortenings. Horses. Walking. Mahomet. Nos. 119-120, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117777
Edel (American), 1895 (ca), "Anna in Union College Laundry", Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128280
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Portrait of a Fireman, Daguerreotype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117817
Carleton E. Watkins, 1861, River View of the Royal Arches, Yosemite, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92699
William Matthew Prior (artist, 1806-1873), 1845 (ca), Baby in Blue, Oil on paper, attached to panel, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/58934
Felice Beato, 1860, Head Quarter House, First Division, Pehtang, China, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76818
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe, Salted paper print, from paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76772
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1855-1856, Courtyard with Domed Building in Ruins, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76783
Taylor (artist, American), 1900 (ca), Portrait of a Weaving Mill Woman, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128289
Felice Beato, 1860, Exterior of North Taku Fort on Peiho River, Showing the English and French Entrance, August 21, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76813
Robert Frank, 1951, Melvin Tocker, 6 AM, [People You Don't See], Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130091
Robert Frank, 1955, Man shopping--Los Angeles, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130105
Felice Beato, 1860, Temple of Confucius, Pekin, October 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76827
Unidentified photographer, 1870s (ca), Portrait of Two Boys, Tintype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117724
Robert Frank, 1955, Boy sitting on automobile--North Carolina, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130095
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, 1 September - 21 October, Amerapoora: South Ditch of the City Wall, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/59087
Gustave Le Gray, 1856 (ca), Beech Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92654
W.E. Huber (American, active 1860s), 1860s, Portrait of a Knife Sharpener, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128262
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate Number 758. Cockatoo flying, Collotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117782
Henry F. Post (artist, American, born c. 1840), 1896 (ca), "Dominic Parsons Hunting for Fossils", Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128297
Édouard Baldus, 1861 (or later), Toulon, Gare (Toulon, Train Station), Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117734
G.T. Putnam, 1875 (ca), Charles F. Hanson, Piano Forte Tuner and Repairer, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128270
Robert Frank, 1955-1956 (ca), Buildings and billboard--Beverly Hills, California, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130096
Unidentified photographer (America), 1860 (ca), Portrait of a Woman with Sewing Machine, Ambrotype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128257
Felice Beato, 1860, Sacred Temple of Heaven Where the Emperor Sacrifices Once a Year, in the Chinese City of Pekin, October 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76825
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, Guard Rock, Des Moines Rapids Canal L.W., Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76734
Giraudon's Artist, 1870s (late), Two Women with Donkey, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117173
John Murray, 1858-1862 (ca), Nynee Tall from South End, Paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117744
Charles Marville, 1866-1868, Rue de la Bûcherie, du cul de sac Saint-Ambroise (fifth arrondissement), Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92662
Robert Frank, 1955, Cocktail party--New York City, [The Americans], Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130098
Felice Beato, 1860, Entrance to the Winter Palace, Pekin, October 29, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76811
Detroit Photographic Co., 1899 (published), Orange Packing at Redlands, Photo-chromolithograph, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117813
Robert Frank, 1941-1945, Radio tubes--40 Fotos, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130076
Solomon Telingater, 1930, All-Soviet Military Railroad, Collage of photomechanical reproductions and gouache over graphite on gray-green paper, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/78330
Charles Le Morvan (French, 1865 - 1933), 1904, Carte photographique de la lune, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117792
Charles Amedee Philippe Van Loo (French, 1719-1795), 1764, The Camera Obscura (detail), OIl on canvas, detail, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/61848
William H. Bell, 1872, Rain Sculpture, Salt Creek Canon, Utah, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117821
Arthur E. Durham, 1870s, Microphotograph of Traverse Section of Wood (Salisburia), Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117811
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Portrait of a Civil War Soldier, Tintype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117723
Robert Frank, 1941-1945, Zurich telephone directory--40 Fotos, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130078
George N. Barnard, 1865-1866, Columbia from the Capitol, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92670
Unidentified photographer, 1880s, Baby, Tintype, hand-coloured, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54871
Roger Fenton, 1855, Captain Graham and Captain MacLeod, 42nd Regiment, Salted paper print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54889
Désiré Charnay, 1863, Femme Malgache et Ses Enfants (Madagascan Woman and Her Children) (Plate 3), Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117762
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Portrait of a Girl, Salted paper print, hand-painted, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76768
Warren De la Rue, 1858-1859 (taken) 1862 (print), View of the Moon, Stereoscopic glass transparency, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117748
Unidentified photographer, 1870s (ca), Elephantiasis, Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117774
Joseph Wright (British, 1734 - 1797), 1782-1784, The Corinthian Maid, Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/93374
Alexander Gardner, 1863, July, A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 40], Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117825
Loewy et Puiseux, 1903, Photographie Lunaire Albategnius - Triesnecker - Manilius, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117791
Charles Marville, 1867 (ca), Passage des Deux-Soeurs de la rue Lafayette, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92666
Asahel Curtis, 1910, Indian Whalers Homeward Bound from the Pacific, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117795
Max Wolf and Joh. Palisa, 1904, 6 July, Photographische Sternkarten, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117793
David Brokaw (artist, American, 1812-1878), 1850, Oberlin College Graduates, including Lucy Stanton Day Sessions, Daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128254
A.F. Ferris & Co. (artist, American), 1880 (ca), Portrait of a Wallpaperer, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128272
American 20th Century (artist), 1920 (ca), Portrait of Three Children, Celluloid photo button, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128296
Sedgwick S. Hull(artist, America, c. 1832-1895), 1870 (ca), Charles Ketterer with his Apostolic Clock, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128267
W.D. Fay, 1860s, Portrait of Child Maids, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128260
Unidentified photographer (Great Britain), 1848, John Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Jr., Daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/131392
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Animal Locomotion, Plate 626. Gallop, thoroughbred bay mare, Annie G, Collotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54897
2015, Radiographs of Edgar Degas wax sculptures, X-ray, composite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76288
George N. Barnard, 1864-1866, Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92669
Edouard Manet, 1873-1874, Le bal de l'opéra [Maskenball in der Oper], Oil painting, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/40754
Peter McWilliam (artist, American, 1875-1947), 1900 (ca), Portrait of a Telephone Lineman, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128284
A.E. Alden, 1868, Andrew and Billie, Furniture Movers, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128268
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1855-1856, Panorama of Sebastopol No. 1, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76794
William J. Stillman, 1869-1870, The Acropolis of Athens, plate 21, Carbon print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54902
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Plate Number 733. Elephant walking, Collotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117781
Pierre Bonnard, 1895, Les Batignolles avec la devanture fleurie oder Le cheval de fiacre [Das Droschkenpferd in Batignolles], Oil painting, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/40752
Henry P. Bosse, 1885, C.M. & St. P. RR Bridge at Sabula, Ia., Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76732
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, 20-24 August or 23 October, Pugahm Myo: Carved Doorway in Courtyard of Shwe Zeegong Pagoda,, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/59086
Unidentified photographer (America), 1850s, A. H. Goldon, Daguerreotype, with applied color, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128252
Viscountess Jocelyn (British, 1820-1880), 1862 (ca), Interior of Room, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92679
Henry P. Bosse, 1891, Construction of Rock and Brush Dam, L.W. 1891, Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76743
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Portrait of a Boy, Albumen print, with applied colour, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117756
Eadweard Muybridge, 1877, Quezaltenango from the Crater of a Volcano, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92684
Unidentified photographer (Great Britain), 1848, John Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Edmund Ashworth, Jr., Daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/131393
Francis Frith, 1857 (ca), The Ramasseum of El-Kurneh, Thebes, First View, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/78341
Carleton E. Watkins, 1871, Malakoff Diggins, North Bloomfield, Nevada County, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92693
Charles Marville, 1864-1870, Hôtel de la Marine, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92657
Felice Beato, 1860, The Great Pagoda in the Imperial Winter Palace, Pekin, October 29, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76817
Manville & Schroder (Greenbay, Wisconsin), 1864 (ca), Portrait of a Native American Woman, Carte de visite, painted, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130896
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887, Animal Locomotion, Plate 340, Collotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54898
Gustave Le Gray, 1856-1858, The Pont du Carrousel, Paris: View to the West from the Pont des Arts, Albumen print, from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92653
Eadweard Muybridge, 1877, Ruins of the Church of San Miguel, Panama, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54895
A.F Ferris & Co (Artist, American, active 1880s), 1880 (ca), Portrait of a Wallpaperer, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/131009
Paul-Émile Miot, 1870s, Chien de Garvel (Martinique), Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117772
Alex V. Olszewsky (artist, American), 1860s, Wicker chair, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128264
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Alexander Rutherford, William Ramsay and John Linton, Salted paper print, from a paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92678
Alex V. Olszewsky (artist, American), 1860s, Wicker chairs, Carte de visite, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128265
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1890s, "Sunshine and Shadow", Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/126674
Robert Frank, 1955, Canal Street—New Orleans, [The Americans], Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130097
Charles Nègre, 1852 (ca), Chateau of Vallambrosa, Cannes, Waxed paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92689
James Fitzallen Ryder, 1862, Photographic Views on the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76730
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839-1840, Leaf Study, Photogenic drawing, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76760
L.P. Greenlund & Co. (artist, American, active 1890s-1910s), 1880s (ca), Portrait of a Tinsmith, Cabinet card, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/128273
Eadweard Muybridge, 1881-1882, Arrangement of the Cameras for Taking the Illustrations of the Paces, 1879, in J.D.B Stillman, The Horse in Motion as Shown by Instantaneous Photography with a Study on Animal Mechanics, Heliotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/92681
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1855-1856, View of Street with Soldiers, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76804
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1855-1856, Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76782
Felice Beato, 1860, Tomb Near Palichian, the Scene of the Commencement of the Attack on September 21, 1860, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76830
Charles Amedee Philippe Van Loo (French, 1719-1795), 1764, The Camera Obscura, OIl on canvas, framed, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/73651
Calvert Richard Jones, 1846, St. Paul's Cathedral, Valetta, Malta, with Bell Tower, Salted paper print, from salted paper negative, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/54910
Asahel Curtis, 1910, Indian Whalers Stripping Their Prey at Neah Bay, Photogravure, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117796
Giorgio Sommer, 1873, Impronte Umane, Pompei (Human Cast, Pompeii), Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117809
Robert Frank, 1946 (ca), Eye in shutter--40 Fotos, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130084
Édouard Baldus, 1854, Rocher de St. Michel au Le Puy (Rock of St. Michel near Le Puy), Salted paper print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117728
Edward S. Curtis, 1910-1914, Nakoaktok Warrior, Cyanotype, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117798
Edouard Manet, 1878, La prune [Der Pflaumenschnaps], Oil painting, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/40747
Lewis M. Rutherfurd, 1860, View of the Moon, Stereoview, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117761
Unidentified photographer, 1860s, Tall Bull, Chief of the Sioux, Carte de visite, painted, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130865
Robert Frank, 1941 (ca), Banana in sand--Design, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/130072
Dunmore & Critcherson, 1869, The Arctic Regions: No. 36. The Glacier As Seen Flowing Or Being Forced Down Between The Hills, Ploughing Up A Moraine Of Earth And Rocks, Twenty To Thirty Feet High, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/117770
Charles Nègre, 1852, February (before), Market Scene at the Port of the Hotel de Ville, Paris, Salted paper print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/67057
Robert Macpherson, 1861, The Templum Minerva Medica and the Surrounding Area, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/78344
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1855-1856, Remains of the Malakoff Tower, Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/76796
Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1854-1855 (taken), Fright, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression) (1862)], Albumen print, National Gallery of Art (NGA), LL/78334
   

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