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.
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Braceros Boarding Buses
- Description
- Photograph: At the Monterrey Processing Center, Mexico, braceros receive packed lunches as they board buses to the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.01.38
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.01.38
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Braceros Boarding Buses
- Description
- Photograph: At the Monterrey Processing Center, Mexico, braceros receive packed lunches as they board buses to the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.01.39
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.01.39
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Braceros Boarding Buses
- Description
- Photograph: Framed by a bus door, braceros recieve packed lunches as they board buses from Monterrey Processing Center, Mexico, to the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.01.40
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.01.40
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Braceros Boarding Buses
- Description
- Photograph: At the Monterrey Processing Center, Mexico, braceros receive packed lunches as they board buses to the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.01.41
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.01.41
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Braceros Boarding Buses
- Description
- Photograph: At the Monterrey Processing Center, Mexico, braceros receive packed lunches as they board a line of buses to the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.01.42
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.01.42
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Braceros Boarding Buses
- Description
- Photograph: Framed by the side of a bus at the Monterrey Processing Center, Mexico, braceros board buses to the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.01.43
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.01.43
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Braceros Waiting at Processing Center
- Description
- Photograph: Beyond railroad tracks, braceros wait in a large group for processing at the Monterrey Processing Center, Mexico.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.01.44
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.01.44
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Bracero Standing for Photographs
- Description
- Photograph: A bracero stands for identification photographs at the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas, while others wait in line.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.02.01
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.02.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Braceros Receiving Identification Photographs
- Description
- Photograph: Braceros receive their identification photographs at the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas, while others wait in line.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.02.02
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.02.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Braceros Receiving Identification Photographs
- Description
- Photograph: Braceros receive their identification photographs at the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas, while others wait in line.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date photographed
- 1956
- photographer
- Nadel, Leonard
- ID Number
- 2004.0138.02.03
- accession number
- 2004.0138
- catalog number
- 2004.0138.02.03
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center