Photography

The millions of photographs in the Museum's collections compose a vast mosaic of the nation's history. Photographs accompany most artifact collections. Thousands of images document engineering projects, for example, and more record the steel, petroleum, and railroad industries.

Some 150,000 images capture the history, art, and science of photography. Nineteenth-century photography, from its initial development by W. H. F. Talbot and Louis Daguerre, is especially well represented and includes cased images, paper photographs, and apparatus. Glass stereographs and news-service negatives by the Underwood & Underwood firm document life in America between the 1890s and the 1930s. The history of amateur photography and photojournalism are preserved here, along with the work of 20th-century masters such as Richard Avedon and Edward Weston. Thousands of cameras and other equipment represent the technical and business side of the field.

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Location
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date made
1930s-1950s
maker
Keppler, Victor
ID Number
PG.006261.W
catalog number
6261W
accession number
238737
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Location
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date made
1958
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.030B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1959
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.043B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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Date made
1952
maker
Lange, Dorothea
ID Number
PG.71.64.15
accession number
2003.0160
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Location
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date made
1958
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.002B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1952
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.084B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1958
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.079B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1958
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.078B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1952
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.059B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1954
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.071B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1956
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.056B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1959
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.069B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1958
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.016B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
date made
1958
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.004B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1955-05-24
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.012B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1957
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.026B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1955
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.008B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1951
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.055B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1954
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.029B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1953
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.067B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1959
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.072B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
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date made
1958
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.061B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
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Location
Currently not on view
date made
1959
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.073B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1958
maker
Avedon, Richard
ID Number
PG.66.64.017B
accession number
264003
catalog number
66.64

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