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.
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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
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Charles Fertig Collection, 1979-1985
- Notes
- Charles Fertig was a technician at the St. Joseph News-Press and Gazette. The newspaper developed a direct plate imager technology and is credited with being a leader in the field of laser adaptation to computer reproduction of photographs for newspaper use
- Summary
- Maintenance logs, system logs and training notes related to the development of direct plate imager technology and its early use by the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press and Gazette
- Cite as
- Charles Fertig Collection, 1979-1985, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1979
- 1979-1985
- 1970-1990
- 20th century
- collector
- Fertig, Charles
- Graphic Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Subject
- St. Joseph News-Press and Gazette (newspaper)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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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.)
- 2013.3041 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH