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Lutheran Church, Sharpsburgh, Maryland, September 1862 by Alexander Gardner, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/259607
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[Konstantin Cretius], Ernst Milster, 1860s, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970 Size: Approx. 10.2 x 6.3 cm (4 x 2 1/2 in.) Medium: Albumen silver print
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/685515
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Fort Gaines, Officers of the 55th New York Volunteers by Mathew B. Brady, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/268185
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Ceramium ciliatum, Anna Atkins, ca. 1853, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005 Size: Image: 25.3 x 20 cm (9 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.) Medium: Cyanotype
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/291536
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Vue générale d'Esné (No. 3, pointe Nord) by Maxime Du Camp, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/287155
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East Berlin, Thomas F. Arndt, 1985, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Photography and New Media
train, single passenger in window Size: 12 1/8 x 18 ¼ in. (30.8 x 46.36 cm) (image) 15 15/16 x 19 13/16 in. (40.48 x 50.32 cm) (sheet) Medium: Gelatin silver print
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4083/
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Portail Saint-Trophime; Entrée Du Cloître, Arles, Église Métropolitaine de Saint-Trophime, Charles Nègre, 1852, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005 Size: Image: 6 15/16 × 5 7/8 in. (17.6 × 15 cm) Mount: 15 7/8 × 7 1/2 in. (40.4 × 19.1 cm) Medium: Relief print
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/675524
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Untitled (Java), Ben Shahn, January 26, 1960-February 2, 1960, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn Size: image: 6 x 8.1 cm (2 3/8 x 3 3/16 in.) sheet: 6.6 x 8.7 cm (2 5/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/213943
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Edinburgh. The High Street with John Knox's House, Hill and Adamson, 1843–47, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937 Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/268400
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Charity, Public: United States. Massachusetts. Bridgewater. State Farm: Massachusetts. State Farm Bridgewater. Asylum Department.: North Corridor., Unidentified Artist, c. 1900, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection Size: 18.6 x 23.9 cm (7.32 x 9.41 in)
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/312902
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Stained glass rosette shard from the 16th Street Baptist Church, ca. 1963, Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture
Size: H x W x D (2013.138a): 6 × 5 ½ × ¼ in. (15.2 × 14 × 0.6 cm) Medium: glass, lead
https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.138abc
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Femmes Betsimisaraka, Madagascar, Désiré Charnay, 1863, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Sam Salz Foundation Gift, 2005 Size: Image: 19.7 x 17 cm (7 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.) Mount: 28.7 x 23.1 cm (11 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.) Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/286280
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Vivien and Merlin by Julia Margaret Cameron, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/282118
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[Workman with Tool Box] by Unknown, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Tintype
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/291856
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[Karl Heffeck] by Loescher & Petsch, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Albumen silver print
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/686229
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[Bearded Plasterer with Hawk and Trowel] by Unknown, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ambrotype
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/291911
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Orchard Street, Dan Weiner, 1949, MoMA: Photography
Gift of Sandra Weiner Size: 9 ¼ × 13 7/16" (23.5 × 34.1 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver print
http://www.moma.org/collection/works/45747
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