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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date made
1929
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Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.393
catalog number
2016.0066.0393
accession number
2016.0066
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maker
Ansco
ID Number
2016.0066.410
accession number
2016.0066
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2016.0066.0410
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maker
Argus Inc.
ID Number
2016.0066.407
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0407
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Location
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date made
1930
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.362
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0362
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date made
1959-09
ID Number
2016.0066.411
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0411
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Location
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date made
1924
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.397
catalog number
2016.0066.0397
accession number
2016.0066
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Location
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date made
1928
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.364
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0364
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date made
1928-06
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.381
catalog number
2016.0066.0381
accession number
2016.0066
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date made
1920-09
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.400
catalog number
2016.0066.0400
accession number
2016.0066
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Location
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date made
1924
1924-09
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.398
catalog number
2016.0066.0398
accession number
2016.0066
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Location
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date made
1931-12
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.404
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0404
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Location
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date made
1929
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.361
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0361
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Location
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date made
1923
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.365
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0365
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Location
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date made
1903-06
advertiser
Rochester Optical & Camera Company
ID Number
2016.0066.359
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0359
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Location
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date made
1900-03
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.358
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0358
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date made
1923
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.395
catalog number
2016.0066.0395
accession number
2016.0066
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Location
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date made
1928
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.363
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0363
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date made
1929-10
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.403
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0403
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date made
1899-07
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.357
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0357
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date made
1915-06
ID Number
2016.0066.406
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0406
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advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.370
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0370
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maker
Argus Inc.
ID Number
2016.0066.408
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0408
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Location
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date made
1929-07
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.382
accession number
2016.0066
catalog number
2016.0066.0382
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Location
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date made
1927
advertiser
Eastman Kodak Company
maker
Eastman Kodak Company
ID Number
2016.0066.394
catalog number
2016.0066.0394
accession number
2016.0066

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