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 14 items.
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[Unidentified photographic studio, but probably the Scurlock Studio : cellulose acetate photonegative]
- Summary
- With bust, lights, bench and backdrop. Pencil on negative: "3 -". "KODAK - SAFETY 456" edge imprint
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1930
- 1960
- [n.d.]
- 20th century
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Local number
- Box 618.04.94
- AC0618.004.0000968.tif (scan number)
- No Scurlock number
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Press cutting regarding Robert Scurlock's exhibition of work, 1961, copy negative : cellulose acetate photonegative]
- Summary
- Copy negative of press cutting regarding the selection of Robert Scurlock's photograph for exhibition at the 70th Annual Exposition of Professional Photography and the 9th National Industrial Photographic Conference in New York, 1961. No ink on negative. "KODAK - - SAFETY - - FILM" edge imprint. No Scurlock number
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1961
- 1960-1970
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Subject
- Scurlock, Robert S [Saunders] 1917-1994
- Local number
- Box 618.04.90
- AC0618.004.0000969.tif (scan number)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Street scene with "Kodaks" sign : stereo photonegative, ca. 1902.]
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 1.1.17 [47]
- Cancelled by scratching
- "Kodaks" sign is difficult to see in digital version, but is clear in the negative and prints made from it
- Orig. No. 444-D (number on original envelope)
- Date
- 1902
- ca 1902
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- H.C. White Co
- Subject
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Local number
- RSN 3389
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Publicity Shots [for Capitol School of Photography : cellulose acetate photonegative, ca. 1948-1952]
- Summary
- Group of men in studio at Capitol School of Photography. A woman is posing for a photograph. No ink on negative. "KODAK - SAFETY 98" edge imprint
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1948
- 1952
- ca 1948-1952
- 20th century
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Subject
- Capitol School of Photography
- Local number
- Box 618.04.91
- AC0618.004.0000907.tif (scan number)
- No Scurlock number
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Publicity Shots [for Capitol School of Photography : cellulose acetate photonegative]
- Summary
- Two men viewing negatives in the Capitol School of Photography. No ink on negative. "KODAK - SAFETY 98" edge imprint
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1930
- 1960
- [n.d.]
- 20th century
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Subject
- Capitol School of Photography
- Local number
- Box 618.04.91
- AC0618.004.0000908.tif (scan number)
- No Scurlock number
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Publicity Shots [for Capitol School of Photography : cellulose acetate photonegative]
- Summary
- Man adjusting a camera for still life shot. No ink on negative. "KODAK - - SAFETY - - FILM" edge imprint
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1930
- 1960
- [n.d.]
- 20th century
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Subject
- Capitol School of Photography
- Local number
- Box 618.04.91
- AC0618.004.0000909.tif (scan number)
- No Scurlock number
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Publicity Shots [for Capitol School of Photography : cellulose acetate photonegative]
- Summary
- Two men working in developing room. Notices posted on wall give details of developing times and solution recipes for fixing baths, D-76 and D-72. No ink on negative. "KODAK - SAFETY 98" edge imprint
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1930
- 1960
- [n.d.]
- 20th century
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Subject
- Capitol School of Photography
- Local number
- Box 618.04.91
- AC0618.004.0000910.tif (scan number)
- No Scurlock number
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Civil Disturbances '68 [Scurlock studio window : cellulose acetate photonegative]
- Summary
- One of four negatives on a 35mm film strip. The group is numbered AC0618.004.0000207-AC0618.004.0000210
- A display box on the exterior wall at Scurlock's studio containing photographs, labeled "Photography by Scurlock" with a hand-written sign on the glass reading "Soul brother / all the way". No ink on negative. "Tri X Pan Film Kodak Safety Film" and frame numbers edge imprint. No Scurlock number
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1968
- 20th century
- 1960-1970
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Local number
- Box 618.04.96
- AC0618.004.0000210.tif (AC scan)
- 2008-4944.21A (SI Neg.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Kodak [catalogue]
- Summary
- Cover illustration: Man in boots, brown coat and jacket holding length of film. Man in white (possibly Asian) running machine on other side of table. Characters on tent in background suggest Asian location, as well as vague architecture in background
- Date
- 1905
- advertiser
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Local number
- AC0060-0000184 (AC Scan No., cover or catalog)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Civil Disturbances '68 [cellulose acetate photonegative]
- Summary
- One of four negatives on a 35mm film strip. The group is numbered AC0618.004.0000207-AC0618.004.0000210
- The entrance to Scurlock Studios with a sign in the door reading "Soul brother all the way." No ink on negative. "Tri X Pan Film Kodak Safety Film" and "- 18A - 19 - 19A - 20 - 20A - 21 - 21A - 22" edge imprint. No Scurlock number
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1968
- 20th century
- 1960-1970
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Local number
- Box 618.04.96
- 2008-4944 (SI Neg. No.)
- AC0618.004.0000209.tif (scan number)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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