PhotoHistory

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from His Window at Le Gras, c. 1826-27.
Heliograph. (Greek for: Sun and Writing), Direct positive print.

Attributed to Louis Jacques
Mande Daguerre, Unidentified
Man, 1837. Daguerreotype

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Still Life, 1837. Daguerreotype.

William Henry Fox Talbot, Botanical Specimen 1839. Photogenic drawing

John Hershel, Untitled, (from an engraving of a woman with a harp), 1842.
Cyanotype.

Photographer
Unknown
Seated woman
holding
Daguerreotype
c. 1850

Daguerre, View of the boulevard du Temple, 1839. Daguerreotype

Hippolyte Bayard, Portrait of a Drowned Man, 1840. Direct paper positive.

Robinson read the paper “On printing
Photographic Pictures from Several Negatives” at a
meeting of the Photographic Society of Scotland

1860

Prince Albert purchased a print of Fading Away
and invited Robinson to submit one print/ year to the
Royal Collection of Art

1867

William Henry Fox Talbot, The Open
Door, 1843. Salted paper print from a
calotype negative.

Jan Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c. 1616

William Henry Fox Talbot, Articles of China, plate 3, Pencil of Nature, 1844-
46. Calotype.

Talbot, Hayrick, 1845. Calotype

Monet, Haystacks, 1890-91

Oscar Rejlander, Two Ways of Life, 1857. 16 x 31”. Albumen silver print
(Composite print)

The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857

Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, 1858. c. 9 x 15”. Albumen silver print

Roger Fenton (British), The Staff at Head Quarters, 1855

Roger Fenton, Major Gen. Lord George Paget, 1855. Paper print.

Roger Fenton, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855. Paper print.

George S. Cook, Portrait of Major Robert Anderson, 1860-65.
Wet plate Collodion.

Unidentified Photographer
Civil War Portrait
ca. 1860
Tintype

Unidentified Photographer, Two women and a man in a studio prop boat, ca. 1875.
Tintype with applied color

Matthew Brady, Abraham Lincoln, 1860. Salted paper print

Matthew Brady?, Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, c. 1970. Albumen Print

Matthew Brady, Ulysses S. Grant, Commander of the Union Army.
1864. Albumen silver print

Matthew Brady, Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate army.
1865. Albumen silver print

Alexander Gardner, Soldiers on the Battlefield (Antietam), 1862. Albumen
silver print. Made for Matthew Brady’s studio

Gardner’s Studio, Washington DC. C. 1863.

Alexander Gardner, Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg. From
Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, plate 41,
July 1863. Wet collodion print.

Alexander Gardner, A Sharpshooter’s
Last Sleep, Gettysburg, July 1863.
Albumen print

Timothy O’Sullivan, Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, PA, July 1863.
Steroscope. Publ. in Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil
War.

Asher B. Durand, Progress, 1853. Oil on canvas.

Alexander Gardner, “Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way”: Laying
Track 600 Miles West of St. Louis, outside Hays City, Kansas: End of the Line,
plate 152 from Across the continent on Kansas Pacific Railway. 1869

Emanuel Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (Westward Ho!), 1861.

Timothy O'Sullivan. Ancient
Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle,
New Mexico. Albumen print,
1873.

William Henry Jackson,
Old Faithful, 1870.
Albumen silver print