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William Henry Fox Talbot
Lace, 1839-1844
photogenic drawing (salted paper print)
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonPatrons' Permanent Fund
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Baron Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard
The Bean Sorters, c. 1857
paper negative
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation through Robert and Joyce Menschel
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Roger Fenton
The Cloisters, Tintern Abbey, 1854
salted paper print from a collodion negative
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation through Robert and Joyce Menschel
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Charles Nègre
Chateau of Vallambrosa, Cannes, c. 1852
waxed paper negative
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro in memory of Diamon Gangji
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Roger Fenton
Fruit and Flowers, 1860
albumen print from a collodion negative
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonPaul Mellon Fund
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Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes
The Letter, c. 1850
daguerreotype
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonPatrons' Permanent Fund
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American 19th Century
George E. Lane, Jr., c. 1855
ambrotype
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of Kathleen, Melissa, and Pamela Stegeman
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American 19th Century
Portrait of a Woman and Two Girls, 1850s
ambrotype, hand-colored
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonVital Projects Fund
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Platt D. Babbitt
Niagara Falls, c. 1860
ambrotype
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonVital Projects Fund
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J.G. Ellinwood
Portrait of a Woman, c. 1870
tintype, hand-colored
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonMary and Dan Solomon Fund
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Anna Atkins
Ferns, Specimen of Cyanotype, 1840s
cyanotype
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonR.K. Mellon Family Foundation Fund
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Laura Gilpin
Ghost Rock, Colorado Springs, 1919
platinum print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonMarvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund
© 1979 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
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Karl Struss
Columbia University, Night, 1910
gum dichromate over platinum print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation through Robert and Joyce Menschel
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Gertrude Kasebier
Mother and Child, c. 1900
multiple gum dichromate print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonPatrons' Permanent Fund
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Heinrich Kühn
Die Schnitterin (The Reaper), 1924
bromoil transfer print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonDiana and Mallory Walker Fund
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William James Stillman
The Acropolis of Athens, 1869/1870
carbon print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation through Robert and Joyce Menschel
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László Moholy-Nagy
Untitled, c. 1922-1924
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonNew Century Fund
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László Moholy-Nagy
Untitled (Positive), c. 1922-1924
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art
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Alfred Stieglitz
The Terminal, 1893
gelatin silver print, printed 1920s/1930s
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonAlfred Stieglitz Collection
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Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe--Hands, probably 1919
palladium print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonAlfred Stieglitz Collection
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Eadweard Muybridge
Walking and Carrying a 15-lb. Basket on Head, Hands Raised, from Animal Locomotion (Philadelphia, 1887), c. 1887
collotype
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonPatrons' Permanent Fund
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Edward Steichen
Cover Design, 1906
halftone print (duotone)
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonAnonymous Gift
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Étienne Carjat
Charles Baudelaire, 1861
Woodburytype, printed 1877
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of Jacob Kainen
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Harry Callahan
Providence, 1977
dye imbibition print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Ruttenberg courtesy of the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation
© Estate of Harry Callahan, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Car in Parking Lot), 1973
dye imbibition print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonAnonymous Gift
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Robert Fichter
Look Out Baby, c. 1982
silver dye bleach print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of Marc Freidus
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David Levinthal
Untitled (From Mein Kampf), 1994
dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid Polacolor)
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of Ron Ginsburg
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Andy Warhol
Self-Portrait with Fright Wig, 1986
dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid Polacolor)
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGlenstone in Honor of Eileen and Michael Cohen
© 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Pioneer with a Bugle, 1930
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonPatrons' Permanent Fund
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Pioneer with a Bugle, 1930
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonPatrons' Permanent Fund
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Heinrich Kühn
Walther Kühn, 1911
gum dichromate print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation through Robert and Joyce Menschel
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Sid Grossman
San Gennaro Festival, New York City, 1948
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonAnonymous Gift
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Bertha Evelyn Jacques
Darnel, 1909
cyanotype
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of Marvin Breckinridge Patterson
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Robert Adams
Summer Nights #2 (Longmont, Colorado), 1979
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of Mary and David Robinson
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Charles Nègre
Saint John the Evangelist, Chartres Cathedral, c. 1854
salted paper print from a paper negative
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonEugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbaty Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and New Century Fund
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Gustave Le Gray
Cavalry Maneuvers, Camp de Châlons, 1857
albumen print from a collodion negative
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonGift of Mary and Dan Solomon
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Clarence White
Mrs. White - In the Studio, 1907
platinum print
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation through Robert and Joyce Menschel and R.K. Mellon Family Foundation Fund
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Charles Nègre
Cathédrale de Chartres - Portique du Midi XIIe Siècle (Chartres Cathedral, South Portal, 12th Century), c. 1854
photogravure, printed c. 1857
National Gallery of Art, WashingtonWilliam and Sarah Walton Fund
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