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
1898
publisher
Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios
maker
Strohmeyer & Wyman
ID Number
2006.0142.21
accession number
2006.0142
catalog number
2006.0142.21
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Location
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date made
1968
maker
Plowden, David
ID Number
1986.0711.0714
accession number
1986.0711
catalog number
1986.0711.0714
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Location
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Date made
ca 1960s
photographer
Uzzle, Burk
ID Number
PG.72.12.040
accession number
2003.0044
catalog number
72.12.40
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Location
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date made
1909
Associated Date
1909-08-22
1909-08-24
ID Number
2018.0166.0074
accession number
2018.0166
catalog number
2018.0166.0074
large open field in foreground; three level farm house at left in center; large barn with open shed and silo to right of farm house; photographer LilenthalCurrently not on view
Description (Brief)
large open field in foreground; three level farm house at left in center; large barn with open shed and silo to right of farm house; photographer Lilenthal
Location
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date made
1850s-1860s
ID Number
2012.3033.0057
nonaccession number
2012.3033
catalog number
2012.3033.0057
date made
1946
referenced
United States Department of Agriculture
ID Number
2013.0327.1163
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.1163
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Location
Currently not on view
date made
1969
maker
Plowden, David
ID Number
1986.0711.0711
accession number
1986.0711
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Location
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Date made
ca 1900
maker
Kasebier, Gertrude
ID Number
PG.73.15.15
catalog number
73.15.15
accession number
306580
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Location
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date made
1914
Associated Date
1914-02-19
ID Number
2018.0166.0076
accession number
2018.0166
catalog number
2018.0166.0076
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Location
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date made
ca 1940s
ID Number
2013.0327.1057
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.1057
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1969
maker
Plowden, David
ID Number
1986.0711.0692
accession number
1986.0711
catalog number
1986.0711.0692
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Location
Currently not on view
date made
1969
maker
Plowden, David
ID Number
1986.0711.0696
accession number
1986.0711
catalog number
1986.0711.0696
date made
1946
referenced
United States Department of Agriculture
ID Number
2013.0327.1164
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.1164
four boys with shovels working ground in a large field; an older man is standing off to right supervisingCurrently not on view
Description (Brief)
four boys with shovels working ground in a large field; an older man is standing off to right supervising
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1930s-1940s
ID Number
2013.0327.0569
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.0569
Press print; portrait of a teenage boy wearing button down shirt, tie and corduroy jacket with his name on it (partially visible) and Tate President partially visible; Booth, from Oklahoma, won Star Farmer in 1943, Future Farmers of AmericaCurrently not on view
Description (Brief)
Press print; portrait of a teenage boy wearing button down shirt, tie and corduroy jacket with his name on it (partially visible) and Tate President partially visible; Booth, from Oklahoma, won Star Farmer in 1943, Future Farmers of America
Location
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date made
1943
maker
Associated Press
ID Number
2013.0327.0809
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.0809
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Location
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date made
ca 1930s-1940s
ID Number
2013.0327.0611
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.0611
Press print; farmer holding the blade of a scytheCurrently not on view
Description (Brief)
Press print; farmer holding the blade of a scythe
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1930s-1940s
ID Number
2013.0327.0570
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.0570
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Location
Currently not on view
date made
1944-1961
maker
Ruohomaa, Kosti
ID Number
PG.007369
catalog number
7369
accession number
252971
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Location
Currently not on view
date made
1968
maker
Plowden, David
ID Number
1986.0711.0712
accession number
1986.0711
catalog number
1986.0711.0712
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1944-1961
maker
Ruohomaa, Kosti
ID Number
PG.007347
accession number
252971
catalog number
7347
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1944-1961
maker
Ruohomaa, Kosti
ID Number
PG.007370
accession number
252971
catalog number
7370
date made
1946
referenced
United States Department of Agriculture
ID Number
2013.0327.1165
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.1165
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Location
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date made
1974-07-05
ID Number
2013.0327.0879
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.0879
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1930s-1940s
ID Number
2013.0327.0641
accession number
2013.0327
catalog number
2013.0327.0641

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