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Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes
The Letter, c. 1850

daguerreotype
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1999.94.1

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William Henry Fox Talbot
Orléans Cathedral, June 1843

salted paper print from paper negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Funds from an Anonymous Donor, 1998.136.1

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Roger Fenton
Fruit and Flowers, 1860

albumen print from collodion glass negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Paul Mellon Fund, 2005.52.4

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Captain Linnaeus Tripe
The Causeway Across the Vaiga River, Madura, early 1858

salted paper print from waxed-paper negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Carolyn Brody Fund and Funds from an Anonymous Donor, 2006.6.1

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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Iceberg Canyon, Colorado River, Looking Above, 1871

albumen print from collodion glass negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Diana Walker Fund and Funds from an Anonymous Donor, 2005.10.1

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Francis Frith
The Ramasseum of El-Kurneh, Thebes, First View, c. 1857

albumen print from collodion glass negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Millennium Funds, 2003.35.1

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Baron Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard
The Tool Shed, Château d'Argentelle, late 1840s

salted paper print from paper negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Funds from an Anonymous Donor, 2002.145.1

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Alphonse Jeanrenaud
Fontainebleau, c. 1860

albumen print from collodion glass negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Amy Rose Silverman Fund and Funds from an Anonymous Donor, 1999.70.1

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Charles Nègre
Saint John the Evangelist, Chartres Cathedral, c. 1854

salted paper print from paper negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbaty Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and New Century Fund, 2003.74.2

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Charles Marville
Rue de la Bûcherie, 1865/1869

albumen print from collodion glass negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Funds from an Anonymous Donor, 2002.144.1

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Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, 1925

albumen print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2002.73.27

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Gertrude Kasebier
Alfred Stieglitz, 1902

platinum print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, The R.K. Mellon Family Foundation Fund, The Diana Walker Fund, and Funds from an Anonymous Donor, 2005.123.1

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Edward Steichen
Cover Design, 1906

halftone
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Funds from an Anonymous Donor, 2002.120.7

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Laura Gilpin
Ghost Rock, Colorado Springs, 1919

platinum print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund, 2002.128.1

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Alvin Langdon Coburn
Vortograph, 1917

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2003.120.1

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Jaromír Funke
Spiral, 1924

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2005.118.2

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Johan Hagemeyer
Pedestrians, 1921

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund and The Amy Rose Silverman Fund, 2003.11.1

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Charles Nègre
Market Scene at the Port of the Hotel de Ville, Paris, before February 1852

salted paper print from paper negative
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2003.74.1

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Ilse Bing
Horse Act, Circus, New York, 1936

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Ilse Bing Wolff, 2001.147.59

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Dora Maar
Untitled (Puppet Hooked on a Fence), c. 1934

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, The R. K. Mellon Family Foundation Fund, 2005.68.1

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Bill Brandt
Hampstead, London, 1945

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Funds from an Anonymous Donor, 2002.7.1

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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Pioneer, 1930

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2004.122.4

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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Columns of the Museum of the Revolution, 1926

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2004.122.1

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Brassaï
Pont des Arts, 1933

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 2001.1.6

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Gertrud Arndt
Self-Portrait with Sunglasses, Dessau, 1928

gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2001.67.26