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American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution
 
MRC 970, PO Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
USA

www.americanart.si.edu
info@saam.si.edu
Tel: 202 275 1500

 
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Stadler Photographing Company, 1900 (ca), Babies Lawn Caps, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7610
Charles Bierstadt, 1870 (ca), The Rapids, Below the Suspension Bridge, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7550
Mathew B. Brady, 1861, 5 January, The Georgia Delegation in Congress - Photographed by Brady, Magazine cover page, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97545
Unidentified artist (American), 1933 (after), Memory Vessel with Encased Photograph, Vase, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97526
Unidentified photographer, 1900 (ca), Three Friends in a Field, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7640
Unidentified photographer, 1848-1849, The Greek Slave, Daguerreotype, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/121601
Unidentified photographer, 1895 (ca), The Grape-Vine Swing, Platinum print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7638
Langill & Darling, 1889, Johnstown Flood, General View looking South, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7586
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Young Man Looking at Daguerreotype, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7646
F. Jay Haynes, 1884, Lone Star Geyser Cone, Yellowstone National Park, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7573
Eadweard Muybridge, 1875 (taken) 1877 (published), Falls of the Michatoya--Palin, Guatemala, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97708
Seneca Ray Stoddard, 1889 (ca), The Antlers, Open Camp, Raquette Lake, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7613
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Editor, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7626
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Folk Artist with Carved Wooden Chain, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7627
O.D. Finch, 1863, Bivouac of the 45th Illinois near the Shirley House, Salted paper print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7561
Joan Clark Netherwood, 1975 (ca), East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project, Gelatin silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/103239
John Moran, 1871, Tropical Scenery: the Terminus of the Proposed Canal - Limon Bay, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7589
Underwood & Underwood, 1902, Evolution of the sickle and flail--33-horse team combined Harvester--Walla Walla, Washington, Albumen prints, stereograph card, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7619
Churchill & Denison, 1864, Group at the Sanitary Commission Fair, Albany, Salted paper print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7555
Unidentified photographer, 1864, Wilderness Battlefield, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7644
Unidentified photographer, 1895 (ca), View of a Stream with Figures, Cyanotype, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7643
E.E. Dickinson, 1915 (ca), Group Portrait at a Patriotic Celebration, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7557
, 1865, Quarters of Men in Fort Sedgwick, Known as Fort Hell, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 83], Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7598
Herbert Matter, 1941, Let the Buyer Be Sure!, from the Eary Series [Advert for the Container Corporation of America], Gelatin silver print, gouache, paper, and plastic on paperboard, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/55111
Unidentified photographer, 1890, "Forty-niner," Street Advertiser in Studio, San Francisco, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7628
James Edward Kelly (born New York City 1855-died New York City 1933), 1891, Mathew B. Brady, Drawing, pencil heightened with white on paper, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97552
Eadweard Muybridge, 1877, Frontispiece to Muybridge's Central American Album, Albumen silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97527
Unidentified photographer, 1880 (ca), View at Gervanda Looking Downstream from the Bridge, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7642
Unidentified photographer, 1884, Night-Blooming Cereus, Closed after Blooming, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7631
Ralph Earl (artist), 1792, Mary Wright Alsop (Mrs. Richard Alsop), Oil on canvas, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/59047
Rudolf Eickemeyer, 1901 (taken) 1906 (print), Under the Greenwood Tree, Platinum print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7560
Williams Studio, 1924 (ca), A Group of Chairs, Haverhill, Massachusetts, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7656
Bertha Jaques, 1910 (ca), Dandelion Seeds, Taraxacium officinale, Cyanotype, photogram, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7579
William H. Rau, 1899, Cathedral Rocks, Susquehanna River near Meghoppen, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7603
Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., Young Boy, Salted paper print, with applied color, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7645
Eadweard Muybridge, 1877, Evening Recreations of the Coffee Pickers, San Isidro, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7592
Unidentified photographer, 1846-1848 (ca), Untitled, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Woman, Daguerreotype, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/116936
Unidentified photographer, 1925 (ca), Reclining Young Man, Photographic print, with applied color, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97550
Unidentified photographer, 1865-1885 (ca), Infant in Red Dress, Tintype, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97508
Eadweard Muybridge, 1875 (taken) 1877 (print), Burial of a Native - Panama, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/118016
Thomas Le Clear, 1865 (ca), Interior with Portraits, Oil on canvas, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/35221
Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1887, Fishermen Unloading a Boat, Sea Bright, New Jersey, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7615
Unidentified photographer, 1893, Beatrice thom on Tree, Haddonfield, New Jersey, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7620
Carleton E. Watkins, 1871 (ca), Union Diggings, Columbia Hill, Nevada, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7650
Unidentified photographer, 1915 (ca), Disadvantages of a Trestle, Cyanotype, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7624
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Caroline Greig and Sister Julia, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7622
Carleton E. Watkins, 1861 (ca), Cascade, Nevada Falls, Yosemite, California, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7649
J.R. Foster, 1863 (ca), Ruins of the Charleston Lighthouse, Morris Island, South Carolina, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7563
Clarence H. White, 1912, Rest Hour (Columbia Teacher's College), Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7655
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), Seneca Falls, New York (upstream), Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7635
Ansel Adams, 1935 (ca), North Dome, Basket Dome, Mount Hoffman, Yosemite, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7543
Unidentified photographer, 1870 (ca), Echo Lake, North Conway, Franconia, White Mountains, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7625
Linda Rich (born Cleveland, OH 1949), 1975 (ca), East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project, Gelatin silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/103266
Thomas Anshutz, 1880, Boys with a Boat, Ohio River, Near Wheeling, West Virginia, Cyanotype, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7544
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Still Life with Pumpkin, Book, and Sweet Potato, Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7637
Unidentified photographer (British), 1898, Portrait of Queen Victoria, Photograph, framed, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97548
Dunmore & Critcherson, 1869 (taken) 1873 (published), Iceberg with an Arch in It, Which,When Connected with the Glacier, Will Give the Reader to Understand How the Water Flows from the Glacier through these Arches, Causing the Rapid Current, [Arctic Regions, p.33, no.39], Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/45569
Eadweard Muybridge, 1872, Valley of the Yosemite from Union Point, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7593
R. Newell, 1870 (ca), Clarence Howard Clark Estate, [Views at Chestnutwold], Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7594
Alexander Gardner, 1862, Burnside Bridge, Across Antietam Creek, Maryland, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 20], Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7565
Unidentified photographer, 1860, Blake Block, Brattleboro, Vermont, Salted paper print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7621
J.A. Whipple, 1855 (ca), House of General Washington, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Salted paper print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7653
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Dentist, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7623
E.G. Fowx, 1863 (ca), New York 7th Regiment Officers, Salted paper print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/107635
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1873, Canyon de Chelle, Walls of the Grand Canyon About 1200 Feet in Height, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7596
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1874, Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho, View Across the Top of the Falls, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7599
James Bartlett Rich, 1910 (ca), Winter Scene in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7607
Victor Guidalevitch, 1930 (ca), Unidentified boxer, half length portrait, Gelatin silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/67494
, 1926 (ca), Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs, Platinum print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7566
Unidentified photographer, 1848-1849, The Greek Slave, Daguerreotype, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/121600
Unidentified photographer / Herbert Adams (1858-1945, sculptor), 1916 (ca), Study for Michigan Memorial [sculpture], Photograph, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113648
Unidentified artist, n.d., Resort Box with Photographs, Box, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97523
Unidentified photographer, 1865 (ca), Two Workmen Polishing a Stove, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7641
William H. Bell, 1865, Heads and Fragments of Heads of Humeri, from the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/40267
William Bell, 1865 (ca), Lieutenant Goodwin, Deceased, Ununited Gunshot Fracture of the Upper Third of the Right Femur, Seven Months after the Injury, From the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section, Albumen silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113645
William James Mullins, 1900 (ca), Trees Reflected in a Pond, Twilight, Platinum print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7591
Eadweard Muybridge, 1875 (taken) 1877 (print), Reception of the Artist in Panama, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/118015
William L. Cullen, 1905, Four Portraits of a Man in Different Headgear, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7556
Samuel Masury, 1858 (ca), Looking Outward from the Barn, Loring Estate, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, Salted paper print, coated, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7588
William H. Rau, 1896-1903, Photographing Our Country Cousins, Stereocard, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97520
William H. Bell, 1872, Canyon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking South, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7549
Eadweard Muybridge, 1875 (taken) 1877 (print), Amapala, Honduras, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/118014
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), House with White Fence and Trees, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, with applied color, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7629
James Ford (possibly Carleton E. Watkins), 1857 (ca), San Francisco, Corner of California and Montgomery Streets, Salted paper print, coated, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7562
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), [Bird in Basin with Thread Spool and Patterned Cloth], Daguerreotype, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/54130
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Square House, Man, Child, and Dog on Lawn, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7636
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1864 (ca), Exterior of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7597
James Van der Zee, 1932, Frances Williams at home after being installed as head of the Manhattan Temple Bible Club, Gelatin silver print, with applied color, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/91711
Lewis W. Hine, 1909, Little Orphan Annie in a Pittsburgh Institution, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7577
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), Still Life with Pumpkin, Book, and Sweet Potato, Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/98217
Man Ray, 1965, Indestructible Object, Wood, fiber, metal, and paper on cardboard, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/6626
F. Jay Haynes, 1885 (ca), Gloster Mill, 60 Stamps, 24 Pans, 12 Settlers,, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7572
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), The "Ohio Star" Buggy, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7639
Unidentified photographer, 1910 (ca), Rafting Party, Silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7634
John Reekie, 1865, Ruins of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 93], Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7605
C.L. Weed, 1865, Mirror Lake and Reflections, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, California, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7652
James Van der Zee, 1929, Studio Portrait of Young Man with Telephone, Gelatin silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/91712
George N. Barnard, 1866, The "Hell Hole," New Hope Church, Georgia, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7548
Herbert Matter, 1941, Hands, from the Early Series [Advert for the Container Corporation of America], Gelatin silver print and gouache on paper on paperboard, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/55110
Unidentified photographer, 1868 (ca), Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at Altoona Repair Facility, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7633
Unidentified photographer, 1885, Night-Blooming Cereus in Bloom, Albumen print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7632
William Bell, 1865, Private John Bar, Recovery after a Penetrating Wound of the Abdomen with Fracture of the Left Os Innominatum, from the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section, Albumen silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/113646
George Barker, 1888 (ca), Niagara in Summer, from Below, Combination print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7545
E.G. Fowx, 1863 (ca), New York 7th Regiment Officers, Salted paper print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/7564
Linda Rich (born Cleveland, OH 1949), 1975 (ca), East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project, Gelatin silver print, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/103267
Unidentified photographer, 1857 (ca), Young Woman in Green Dress, Ambrotype, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97506
   

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