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
1973
maker
Caffery, Debbie Fleming
ID Number
1986.0650.06
accession number
1986.0650
catalog number
1986.0650.06
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Location
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date made
after 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1340
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
1986.3048.1340
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Location
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date made
after 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1281
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
1986.3048.1281
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Location
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date made
before 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1280
catalog number
1986.3048.1280
nonaccession number
1986.3048
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Location
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date made
19th century
ID Number
1984.0669.08
accession number
1984.0669
catalog number
1984.0669.08
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Location
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date made
1904
ID Number
1982.0545.0644.1
catalog number
1982.0545.0644.1
accession number
1982.0545
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Location
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date made
after 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1277
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
1986.3048.1277
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Location
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date made
after 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1276
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
1986.3048.1276
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Location
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date made
1974
maker
Caffery, Debbie Fleming
ID Number
1986.0650.05
accession number
1986.0650
catalog number
1986.0650.05
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Location
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date made
after 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1212
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
86.3048.1212
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Location
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Date made
1910-1918
maker
Noma Studios
ID Number
1986.3048.1210
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
1986.3048.1210
Gordon Parks man wearing a suit, tie and collared shirt is holding a pipe in his left hand and has a mustache; he appears to be standing in front of an enlarged photograph or mural of a prison walk-way; silhouette of a guard in uniform behind himCurrently not on view
Description (Brief)
Gordon Parks man wearing a suit, tie and collared shirt is holding a pipe in his left hand and has a mustache; he appears to be standing in front of an enlarged photograph or mural of a prison walk-way; silhouette of a guard in uniform behind him
Location
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Associated Name
Parks, Gordon
maker
Leen, Nina
ID Number
1986.0711.0109
accession number
1986.0711
catalog number
86.0711.109
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Location
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date made
1979
maker
Lapow, Harry
ID Number
1984.0658.01
catalog number
1984.0658.01
accession number
1984.0658
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Location
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date made
1973
maker
Caffery, Debbie Fleming
ID Number
1986.0650.03
accession number
1986.0650
catalog number
1986.0650.03
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Location
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date made
ca 1864-1866
ID Number
1987.0654.01
accession number
1987.0654
catalog number
87.0654.1
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Location
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date made
before 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1279
catalog number
1986.3048.1279
nonaccession number
1986.3048
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Location
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date made
after 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1246
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
1986.3048.1246
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Location
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maker
Paxson, Charles
ID Number
1987.0654.03
catalog number
87.0654.3
accession number
1987.0654
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Location
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date made
after 1907
ID Number
1986.3048.1203
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
1986.3048.1203
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Location
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Date made
1910-1918
ID Number
1986.3048.1181
nonaccession number
1986.3048
catalog number
1986.3048.1181
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Location
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date made
ca 1960s
maker
Uzzle, Burk
ID Number
PG.72.12.053
accession number
2003.0044
catalog number
72.12.53
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Location
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date made
ca 1940s
maker
Leach, Vernon G.
ID Number
PG.004529C
accession number
178277
catalog number
4529C
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Location
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maker
Falk, Sam
ID Number
PG.69.99.070
catalog number
69.99.70
accession number
281224
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Location
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maker
Gossage, John R.
ID Number
PG.71.111.2

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