Photography - Overview
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.
"Photography - Overview" showing 3 items.
Warner Bro's. [sic] Coraline Corset advertisement [trade card, ca. 1890-1900]
- Notes
- Two examples in collection: the one shown in neg. no. 87-10515 bears the maker's identification, but it is partly cut off in the other copy. This one also has a black-and-white Warner Brothers advertisement on the verso, with sale imprint of "F. Carpenter & Co., Tiffin, O." shown, while the other copy shows "J. P. Keefer, Chambersburg, Pa." as the seller
- In "Corsets" series, Box 4, Folder 6
- Summary
- Color illustration shows two cherubs or putti with a view camera, photographing a corset with a long-leafed plant growing from it. Mark of "Trautmann, Bailey & Blampey, N.Y." (printers?) below image. Coraline, a substitute for whalebone, was manufactured from ixtle, a plant grown in Mexico. "Scattered through the centre of these pulpy leaves are a number of round, tough, elastic fibres like bristles, which average about two feet in length. These leaves are gathered by the natives, and in a crude manner they are pounded and bruised until these fibres are separated from the pulpy portion. This is then dried and put into bales, in which condition it is shipped to our factory. Here we go over it again, carefully hackling and combing it until we have separated all the waste material, leaving only the long and perfect fibres. These fibres are then fed into the winding machine and are bound by stout thread into a firm, continuous cord, This cord, or "coraline," as it is now called, is then ready to be stitched into the corset, which is done in the same manner that ordinary cord is stitched between the folds of cloth. After the Coraline is stitched into the cloth, it passes through a tempering process by passing between heated dies. This is the most wonderful part of the invention, and it is its ability to receive a temper that makes Coraline so valuable as a stiffener for corsets. There is not more difference between soft iron and tempered steel, than between Coraline in its natural state and the same article after it has passed through this tempering process. No starch or artificial sizing of any kind is used, but it is a development of the natural elastic quality already existing in the Coraline, and this elasticity is therefore permanent. Corsets boned with cord may be so loaded with starch or glue that they will seem stiff when new, but this will disappear after a few days' use. Those stiffened with Coraline, on the other hand, grow more elastic with use. This is particularly noticeable in our bosom pads, and in the bust of the Health corsets, both of which are stiffened with Coraline cloth. Rub these until the starch is out of the cloth, and they are much more elastic than when new." (From another Coraline corsets advertisement, quoted in Wikipedia, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Coraline_Corsets
- Cite as
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, ca. 1790-1945, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1890
- 1900
- ca 1890-1900
- 1890-1910
- 19th century
- advertiser
- Warner Brothers (353 Broadway, New York, N.Y.)
- Carpenter, F., & Co. Tiffin, Ohio
- Keefer, J.P. (Chambersburg, Pa.)
- printer?
- Trautmann, Bailey, & Blampey, N.Y
- Local number
- 00006011.jpg (AC Scan no.)
- AC0060-0000901.tif (AC scan no.)
- 87-10515 (OPPS Neg.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Photography (series title), circa 1850-1977
- Summary
- Consists primarily of catalogs, advertisements, correspondence, price lists, invoices and receipts, stationery, advertising cards, reports, photographs, circulars, leaflets, contracts, product manuals, periodicals, books, handbooks, guides, patents and order forms from manufacturers and dealers of photographic supplies and equipment. Products represented include film, burnishing tools, cameras, lenses, photographic chemicals, magic lanterns, stereopticons and slides, photographic paper, daguerrotype equipment, pressing machines and dry plates. Numerous illustrations and images are present
- Cite as
- Photography, Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, box ##, folder ###, digital file number ####
- Date
- 1850
- 1977
- circa 1850-1977
- collector
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Archives Center Business Americana Collection, ca. 1900-present
- Notes
- This collection is a repository for miscellaneous busines ephemera. The material is similar to that found in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, but no new material is incorporated into the Warshaw Collection. The material in the Archives Center Business Americana Collection is newly acquired ephemera received from many sources, including curatorial units, the public, and Smithsonian staff
- Summary
- An artificial collection of material organized with the same subject headings as the Warshaw Collection, i.e., generally by product type. Additional subject headings will be added as needed. New material, much of it from the second half of the twentieth century, is added regularly to this collection. This collection is sometimes informally called "Warshaw Junior" by the staff and researchers
- Cite as
- Archives Center Business Americana Collection, Collection 404, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1900
- 2000
- ca 1900-present
- 20th century
- collector
- Archives Center, NMAH, SI
- donor
- Neuner, Tillman
- Anderson, John R
- Hedlin, Ethel W
- Barbour, Elizabeth
- Blumenthal, Myron
- Coffee, Barbara J
- Buckendorf, Madeline
- Fay, Dorothy
- Gross, James
- Lowther Kevin G
- Maurer, Christopher
- Niel, Margaret M
- Pollak, Carol Throop
- Ravnitzky, Michael
- Ringsrud, Dorothy
- Strange, Susan B
- Weimer, John
- Subject
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- Local number
- 2002.3029 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2002.3049 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2002.3092 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2002.3099 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2003.3098 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2004.3041 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2006.3021 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2007.3013 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2007.3194 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2008.3028 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2008.3029 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2011.3068 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2011.3084 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2012.3063 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2012.3076 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2012.3079 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2012.3112 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
