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| 1. |  | Unidentified photographer 1840-1860 (ca) Marble bust of Samuel George Morton Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Harvard University Archives HA-9 (NHPRC dag. survey number) Inscription: "No. 161. Samuel George Morton M.D. Presented to ?? G.C. Stanland Wake Sept. 1895." Historical: Mortan was American physician and natural scientist. He is widely known for developing the "American School" of ethnography. A 20th-century view of Morton's work may be found in Stephen J. Gould's book The Mismeasure of Man (New York : Norton, 1981). |
| 2. |  | Unknown artist 18th century Portrait of a unidentified man - Bernbault (?) Physionotrace 5.7 x 4.8 cm (frame) 5.3 x 4.3 cm (image) Musée français de la Photographie Inventory no: 89.7056.1 |
| 3. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Silhouette en noir d'un abbé Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Interencheres - La Gallerie de Chartes Collection Henry Koilski (Galerie de Chartres, Auction, 8 October 2011, Lot: 24) |
| 4. |  | James McClees 1857 William B. Wood Daguerreotype 10.6 x 13.8 cm (image) Historical Society of Pennsylvania Record Number: 6125, Collection: Cased Photographs Collection [3139] |
| 5. |  | Thomas Easterly n.d. Unidentified young African American woman, profile view. Daguerreotype Missouri Historical Society Identifier: PHO:17332, http://collections.mohistory.org/photo/PHO:17332 |
| 6. |  | Southworth & Hawes 1853 Jonas Chickering Daguerreotype National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (NPG.95.177) |
| 7. |  | Allevy 1856 Death Portrait of Doctor Amussat Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate George Eastman Museum Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer, 76:0168:0004 |
| 8. |  | Charles Reutlinger n.d. Portrait of a lady Carte de visite Private collection of Andrea Cesari |
| 9. |  | Benjamin J. Falk 1888 Anton Seidl, Hungarian Conductor Cabinet card Private collection of T. Max Hochstetler Anton Seidl (7 May, 1850 - 28 March, 1898) Hungarian Conductor Born in Budapest, Hungary, Seidl entered the Leipzig Conservatory in October, 1870 at age twenty. He was already considered proficient in most of the orchestral instruments, but also had knowledge of music theory. His strong desire following two years study at Leipzig was for conducting. Returning to Budapest, during the summer of 1872, Seidl worked with Hans Richter the conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra (1871-1875). Richter recommended Seidl to work with Richard Wagner as a copyist at Bayreuth. There he assisted in making the first performance copy of "Der Ring des Nibelungen." Seidl took part in the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876. His first chance as a conductor came in 1879, with Wagner's recommendation he was appointed to the Leipzig State Theater. Seidl joined the touring company of Angelo Neumann's Nibelungen Ring Company in 1882, and gained notoriety in performances of Wagner opera Trilogy at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. In 1883, following performance with the touring company he remained in Bremen to become the conductor of the Bremen Opera Theatre. Two years later (1885) he was appointed the successor to Leopold Damrosch as conductor of the German Opera Company in New York. He married opera contralto, Auguste Kraus in that same year. In 1891, he accepted the position as conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Seidl died at 10:15 p.m. on 28 March, 1898, from food poisoning at the home of his business manager, Mr. Bernstein, having gone there after eating fish at the Vienna Cafe earlier in the day. His wife was summoned to his bedside before his passing. SOURCES: Wikipedia Article from Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition - public domain Excerpts from "Memoirs of Anton Seidel." [provided by Max Hochstetler, June 2, 2008] |
| 10. |  | Sarony 1890 (ca) Napoleon Sarony (9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896) Photogravure 20.8 cm x 14.9 cm (8 3/16 x 5 7/8) National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution [NPG.77.313] |
| 11. |  | Willoughby Wallace Hooper 1870-1875 A portrait of an Afghan (India) Albumen print 13.5 x 18 cm Dennis George Crow Courtesy of Dennis George Crow (www.dennisgeorgecrow.com) |
| 12. |  | Augustus Francis Sherman 1911 [Guadeloupean woman] Platinum print 24 x 17.5 cm (image) 35 x 27.5 cm (mount) NYPL - New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants, Image ID: 418039 |
| 13. |  | William Saunders 1870-1880 Studio Portrait of a seated Cantonese woman Albumen print 15 x 19.5 cm Dennis George Crow Courtesy of Dennis George Crow (www.dennisgeorgecrow.com) Original oval printing. |
| 14. |  | F. Holland Day 1900-1910 (ca) Maynard White, Little Good Harbor, Maine Cyanotype 7 7/8 x 7 1/4 in Lee Gallery Courtesy of Lee Gallery (W2100) |
| 15. |  | Edward S. Curtis n.d. Little Hawk [The North American Indian, Volume III] Photogravure Swann Galleries - New York This photogravure was included in a lot sold at the Swann Galleries auction "Important 19th & 20th Century Photographs" (New York, Mon Oct 15, 2007). |
| 16. |  | Gertrude Käsebier 1897 (ca) Flora Platinum print 6 1/4 x 4 in Lee Gallery Courtesy of Lee Gallery (S1434) |
| 17. |  | Federico Mallmann 1895 Portrait [Photo-Club de Paris / 1895, Pl. XXXV] Photogravure Antiq-Photo Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com) Included in the "Deuxieme Exposition d'Art Photographique" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1895) |
| 18. |  | Cesare Mariannecci 1860s (ca) Roman Portrait Albumen print 6 x 4 5/8 Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris |
| 19. |  | Alfred Maskell 1896 Jeune Hollandaise [Photo-Club de Paris / 1896, Pl. XXVIII] Heliogravure / Photogravure 14.3 x 11.0 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Country: England: London Maskell (Born about 1857) was a founder member of the British Linked Ring and a photographer. Writing to Henry Peach Robinson on April 24, 1892, Maskell proposed a revolutionary new photographic organization that became known as the Linked Ring: "Now it has struck me that it would be good…(to) form a small society, an inner circle, a kind of little Bohemian Club, and I am sending this idea to a small number of others in order that we might meet and make a beginning." Maskell was both a champion and pioneer for unconventional photographic processes including pinhole photography and the gum bichromate process. This photogravure of a young Dutch girl was taken using a pinhole camera by Maskell. An article titled "Artistic Focus and the Suppression of the Lens" which deals with photography without the aid of a lens, ("pinhole photography") was published in the Photographic Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 5. from October 1890. It can be accessed as a pdf document from the historical documents menu at the website for Nick Dvoracek Pinhole Photography: http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/pinholephoto.htm Plate (Graveur) by Fillon et Heuse Printed by Ateliers Charles Wittmann Included in the "Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1896) |
| 20. |  | Philipp Ritter Von Schoeller 1897 Cécile [Photo-Club de Paris / 1897, Pl. XXXIII] Heliogravure / Photogravure 16.2 x 12.0 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Country: Austria: Vienna Plate (Graveur) by Blechinger Print: Ateliers Charles Wittmann Included in the "Quatrieme Année Salon de Photographie" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1897) |
| 21. |  | Emile Joachim Constant Puyo 1897 Profil [Photo-Club de Paris / 1897, Pl. XXXI] Heliogravure / Photogravure 22.1 x 15.2 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Country: France: Paris Plate (Graveur) by Fillon et Heuse Print: Ateliers Charles Wittmann Included in the "Quatrieme Année Salon de Photographie" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1897) |
| 22. |  | Gertrude Käsebier 1904-1905 The Bride Gum bichromate print 24.0 x 19.3 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/8 ins) Princeton University Art Museum Gift of the Estate of Mina Turner, Object Number: x1976-322 |
| 23. |  | Maurice Brémard 1898 Studienkopf [Die Kunst in der Photographie (Art Folio #5)] Photogravure-Chine-collé 20.0 x 15.7 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Maurice Bremard (Paris) Heliographed (Plate) & Printed by: Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co. (Berlin) |
| 24. |  | Unidentified photographer 1905-1915 (ca) [thoughtful lady] Real photo postcard Private collection of Brian Smolens |
| 25. |  | Unidentified photographer 1955 (before) Tennis Player Silhouette Gelatin silver print 2.75 in (6.98 cm) x 1.75 in (4.44 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #1119) |
| 26. |  | Louis Auguste Bisson n.d. Skulls from the Philippines and Mariannes (detail) Lithograph, detail Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs - Auction (Skylight Gallery Catalog 28,April 30, 2009, #9) Large lithographic plate reproducing six daguerreotypes by Louis-Auguste Bisson ca. 1841 of skulls from natives of the Philippines and Mariannes islands. Mounted on sheet 13 x 19.5 inches (33x50cm) . With printed attribution "Voyage au P¶le Sud & Dans L'Océanie / Anthropologie, Pl. 40 / Gide Editeur / Lith par Léveillé d'aprÞs les cr"nes naturels, photographié par Bisson, sous la Direction de Mr. le Dr. Dumoutier / Imp. par Thierry FrÞres a Paris." Print size 11.75 x 16 inches (30x41 cm). From the rare illustrative supplement to Dumont D'Urville, "Voyage au P¶le Sud et dans l'Océanie…" (1842-7). The subjects are identified in the image as "Femme / Femme / Femme / D'un Ossuaire moderne de Zambouagan, Ile Mindanao, Archipel des Philippines (Micronesie) / D'un Ossuaire moderne de Zambouangan, Ile Mindanao, Archipel des Philippines (Malaisie) / D'un Ossuaire Chamoro, District d'Agat, Ile Guabam, Archipel des Mariannes (Malaisie)." Produced at the very dawn of the photographic era, these daguerreian lithographs are one of the earliest uses of photography as a scientific mirror of the external world. Their meticulous detail and strong three-dimensionality recreates the impression of the original daguerreotype plates. Some of Bisson's original daguerreotypes from the project survive in museums, and two (of skulls) are illustrated in "Le daguerréotype franþais: Un objet photographique" (2003), pp. 369-370. (Christopher Wahren) |
| 27. |  | Nahum Ellan Luboshez 1910 (ca) X-Ray of Skull X-ray 29.8 x 24.7 cm Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin HRC |
| 28. |  | Southworth & Hawes 1850s Portrait d'un homme en haut-de-forme Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate Sotheby's - Paris Photographies , 29 May 2013, Auction: PF1310, Lot: 22 |
| 29. |  | Unidentified photographer 1845-1855 Youth with Freckles Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate 10.3 x 7.7 cm (plate) 9 x 7.1 cm (sight) National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada (no. 30679), Gift of Phyllis Lambert, Montreal, 1988 |
| 30. |  | William Edward Kilburn n.d. Portrait of a gentleman (English) Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, hand-tinted Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 12) Resealed in full maroon leather case with the Kilburn coat of arms embossed in gilt on the front. |
| 31. |  | Unidentified Daguerreotypist 1857 (ca) George Allen Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Historical Society of Pennsylvania Record Number: 5605, Collection: Cased Photographs Collection [3139] |
| 32. |  | Unidentified photographer (Boston ?) 1846 (ca) Maria Weston Chapman Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate Boston Public Library, Print Department File name: 07_05_000009, Cab no.: Cab.G.3.29 Abolitionists; Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885 |
| 33. |  | Elliott & Fry n.d. English author and poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) Carte de visite Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 47) |
| 34. |  | Sarony n.d. Lucca (Detail) Stereocard Jefferson Stereoptics Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. May 23rd & Thurs. May 25th, 2006, # 06-2, Lot 360) On a Sarony black mount. |
| 35. |  | Vasili Ulitin 1930 Portrait Moscow House of Photography Moscow House Of Photography (¦. Golosovsky collection) |
| 36. |  | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri 1863 [Profile of the Prince Imperial] Albumen print, from glass plate negative 25.1 x 18.3 cm (9 7/8 x 7 3/16 ins) (image) 28.2 x 20.5 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/16 ins) (mount) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.242 |
| 37. |  | Maurice Bucquet 1894 Etude d'éclairage [Photo-Club de Paris / 1894, Pl. XXXIV] Heliogravure / Photogravure 16.5 x 11.8 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Maurice Bucquet (Paris) Plate and print by M. Fillon of the ateliers LeMercier & Cie, Paris. Included in the "Première Exposition d'Art Photographique" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1894) |
| 38. |  | Robert Pauli 1895 Un Mayeur [Photo-Club de Paris / 1895, Pl. XXXVII] Photogravure Antiq-Photo Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com) Included in the "Deuxieme Exposition d'Art Photographique" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1895) |
| 39. |  | Auguste Bert 1897 Profil [Photo-Club de Paris / 1897, Pl. VI] Heliogravure / Photogravure 18.5 x 14.1 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Country: France: Toulouse Bert later operated a studio in Paris where he photographed dancers, including Nijinski. Plate (Graveur) by Fillon et Heuse Print: Ateliers Charles Wittmann Included in the "Quatrieme Année Salon de Photographie" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1897) |
| 40. |  | Edward Steichen 1906 Poster lady Heliogravure, on Japan paper 17.5 x 16 cm Piasa Photographies, 28 October 2011, Lot 23 Ce trÞs élégant profil de femme est l'un des chefs-d'£uvre pictorialistes de Steichen. En 1906, Alfred Stieglitz l'a sélectionné pour faire partie d'un numéro spécial de Camera Work entiÞrement consacré a Steichen ("Steichen Supplement") Bibliographie: Alfred Stieglitz. Camera Work. The complete illustrations 1903-1917, Taschen, 1997, image reproduite p. 302. |
| 41. |  | J. Craig Annan 1897 Portrait of a Lady [Kodak Portfolio: Souvenir of the Eastman Photographic Exhibition 1897, a Collection of Kodak Film Pictures by Eminent Photographers, Pl. 10] Photogravure 12.3 x 7.5 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Included in: Kodak Portfolio: Souvenir of the Eastman Photographic Exhibition 1897, a Collection of Kodak Film Pictures by Eminent Photographers. Published by the Eastman Photographic Materials Co., Ltd. 115-117 Oxford Street, and 60 Cheapside London Rochester, New York: Eastman Kodak Co. Paris: Avenue de l'Opera 5. Place Vendome 4 Berlin: Markgrafen Strasse, 91 In the book: Buchanan, William (Ed.) (1994) J. Craig Annan: Selected Texts and bibliography - World Photographers Reference Series Volume 6 (Clio Press Ltd.) on page 139 of the bibliography section, citation 15 for the year 1897 it states that the sitter was Mrs. Grosvenor Thomas. |
| 42. |  | Baron Adolph de Meyer 1918-1921 Etude pour Vogue Silver print 24,2 x 19,2 cm (print 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 ins) Sotheby's - Paris Photographies , 29 May 2013, Auction: PF1310, Lot: 67 |
| 43. |  | Frances Benjamin Johnston 1897 A Portrait [Kodak Portfolio: Souvenir of the Eastman Photographic Exhibition 1897, a Collection of Kodak Film Pictures by Eminent Photographers, Pl. 12] Photogravure 9.2 x 5.3 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Included in: Kodak Portfolio: Souvenir of the Eastman Photographic Exhibition 1897, a Collection of Kodak Film Pictures by Eminent Photographers. Published by the Eastman Photographic Materials Co., Ltd. 115-117 Oxford Street, and 60 Cheapside London Rochester, New York: Eastman Kodak Co. Paris: Avenue de l'Opera 5. Place Vendome 4 Berlin: Markgrafen Strasse, 91 |
| 44. |  | Charles Berg 1898 Portrait-Studie [Die Kunst in der Photographie (Art Folio #1)] Photogravure 15.0 x 11.5 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Heliographed (Plate) & Printed by: Georg Buxenstein & Comp. (Berlin) Charles I. Berg (sic: listed as C. J. Berg on photogravure and on plate list) (New York) Berg (1856-1926.) studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and London and began a practice as an architect in New York City in 1880. In 1897, the Gillender Building, which he designed, was completed. The Gillender, demolished in 1910, was one of New York City's earliest skyscrapers at twenty-stories. In 1896, he became a founding member of the Camera Club of New York and its first print committee chairman. Berg's photographs frequently pictured classically draped models surrounded with architectural elements. (Peterson, Christian A. Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Notes The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993, p.159) This rather "straight" photograph is reminiscent of studies done by Stieglitz of his wife Georgia O'Keefe. A fascinating variant of this image was published in The Photographic Times in 1897 titled "Adoration". This version can be seen at www.photogravure.com. |
| 45. |  | Gertrude Käsebier 1905 (ca) Silhouette Portrait of a Boy Reading a Book Gum print 7 7/8 x 6 5/16 in Lee Gallery Image courtesy of the Lee Gallery (www.leegallery.com) |
| 46. |  | Unidentified photographer 1915 (ca) Wild Harry (Aboriginal man with elaborate hair ornament, Western Australia) [The Rose Series W. 7] Photo photcard 130 x 86 mm Oceania-Ethnographica Courtesy of www.oceania-ethnographica.com (#1022Y) Official photograph published by the Trans-Australian Railway |
| 47. |  | Walker Evans 1933 Girl, Havana, Cuba [Cuba] Gelatin silver print 8 x 6 1/8 in Lee Gallery Courtesy of Lee Gallery (S2164) Walker Evans Lunn stamp on verso. In 1933 Walker Evans took a series of photographs of Cuban society for Carleton Beals's book The Crime of Cuba which was an expose of the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the exploitation of the country by the US. This series is examined in the book Walker Evans: Cuba by Walker Evans, Andrei Codrescu and Judith Keller (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001) |
| 48. |  | Consuelo Kanaga 1948 (print) 2007 (publication) Young Girl in Profile [An American Gallery] Book plate Lumiere Press Courtesy of Lumiere Press and Howard Greenberg Gallery This illustration is in the book An American Gallery Twenty Five Years of Photography Chronicled in a Biographical Essay By Lyle Rexer, With a Portfolio of Photographs Selected and Annotated by Howard Greenberg, Edited With an Introduction by Michael Torosian (Lumiere Press 2007) |
| 49. |  | Steve Pyke (1957-) 1995 Keith Richards Silver print 15 3/4 x 16 ins (40 x 40.6 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 8-10, 2014, #2370, Lot 530) |
| 50. |  | Louis Auguste Bisson 1841-1842 Ancient Burial Place of Téa-Kaou (Panga´-Motou), Mangareva, Gambier Islands, Polynesia Daguerreotype 16.2 x 12.1 cm (6 3/8 x 4 3/4 ins) Musée de l'Homme This Daguerreotype was included in "The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839-1855" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. |
| 51. |  | Unidentified radiographer 1966 [Grenade embedded in forehead. Vietnam war] X-ray National Museum of Health and Medicine |