19th Century Photography

Niepce Nicephore; View from Niepce’s Window at Gras. 1st. Photo; 1826; heliograph

Louis Jaques Mandé Daguerre; Paris Boulevard; 1839; daguerrotype

Louis Jaques Mandé Daguerre; Paris Boulevard det. Man; 1839; daguerrotype

Louis Jaques Mandé Daguerre; View of the Boulevard du Temple, Paris (2nd view taken on same day); 1839; daguerrotype

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Princess Gabrielli; 1862; albumen print; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Uncut print from a Carte-deVisite negative; 1860

Mathew B. Brady; Abraham Lincoln (the “Cooper Union Portrait”); 1860; albumen print from wet collodion negative

Félix Nadar; Georges Sand; 1860; woodbury type; 23.2 x 18.7 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Oscar Rejilander; Two Ways of Life; 1858; gelatin silver print; 41.0 x 79 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Sarah Burnhardt

Etienne Carjat; Charles Baudelaire; c.1863; carbon print; 24 x 19 cm

Jabez Hogg making a portrait in Richard Beard’s studio; 1843; daguerrotype

Félix Nadar; Nadar’s Studio at 35 Blvd. des Capucines

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Uncut Carte-de-Visite of actress; 1860

Hippolyte Bayard; Self-portrait as a Drowned Man; 1840; direct paper positive

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; c.1864; stereoscopic photography

Louis Jaques Mande Daguerre; Still Life in the Artist’s Studio; 1837; daguerrotype; 16.5 x 21.6 cm

Félix Nadar; Pierrot the Photographer; 1854-55; gelatin-coated salted paper print

Julia Margaret Cameron; Mrs. Herbert Duckworth as Julia Jackson; 1865-66; albumen print; 34 x 24.4 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Lewis Caroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson); Alice Liddell as a Beggar Girl; c.1859; albumen print

Félix Nadar; Sarah Bernhardt; c.1866; print from collodion negative

Henry Peach Robinson; Fading Away; 1858; albumen print; 24.4 x 39.3 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

David Octavius Hill; Redding the Line; c.1846; calotype; Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Albert Sands Southworth; Portrait of a Woman in Nine Oval Views; 1845-1861; daguerrotype; 20 x 15.24 cm; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Napoleon III, Carte-de-visite; 1854; photograph

Roger Fenton; The Valley of the Shadow of Death; 1855; salted paper print from collodion negative; 28.4 x 35.9 cm

Timothy H. O’Sullivan; Ancient Ruins in the Canon de Chelle, New Mexico; 1873; albumen print; 27.5 x 20.3 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Victoria, Reine d’Angleterre; albumen print; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

William Henry Fox Talbot; Open Door; 1844; salt print from calotype negative; 14.4 x 19.5 cm; National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television (Great Britain)

Félix Nadar; Photography Asking for Just a Little Place in the Exhibition of Fine Arts; 1855; engraving

Julia Margaret Cameron; The Whisper of the Muse; 1865; albumen print from wet collodion negative

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Self Portrait; wet plate

Félix Nadar; Charles Baudelaire; 1856

Félix Nadar; Ingratitude of Painting Refusing the Smallest Place in its Exhibition to Photography to Whom It Owes So Much; 1857; engraving

Portable Camera Obscura; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Duc de Coimbra; c.1860; albumen print; 20.1 x 23.7 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Félix Nadar; Le Pantheon; 1854

William Henry Fox Talbot; Pencil of Nature Plate VI The Open Door

Alexander Gardner; Abraham Lincoln; 1865; albumen print

Eadweard Muybridge; Galloping Horse; 1878; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Félix Nadar; Self-Portrait; 1855; salt print

Gustav Oehme; Three Girls, Boheme; 1843; daguerrotype

Henry B. Major; Sarah Bernhardt; c.1880; albumen print; 10.6 x 14.6 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Félix Nadar; Catacombs; 1861-2; albumen print

Oscar Rejlander; Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals; 1872; heliotype

Timothy H. O’Sullivan; A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; 1863; albumen print; 17.2 x 22.2 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Caricature of the Artist Used as Ad in Paris Journals; 1861; wood engraving

Charles Negre; Henry Le Secq at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; 1851

Félix Nadar; Baudelaire; 1856-8; salted paper print

Mathew B. Brady; On the Antietam Battlefield; 1862

Julia Margaret Cameron; Sir John F. W. Herschel; 1867; carbon print; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Painting Offering Photography a Place In the Exhibition of Fine Arts; 1859

Timothy H. O’Sullivan; A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; 1863, albumen print; 17.2 x 22.2 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Lewis Carroll; Photograph of Lewis Carroll; 1863

Napoleon Sarony; Sarah Bernhardt; 1865; albumen print

David Octavius Hill; Misses Binny and Miss Monro; c.1845; calotype; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; The Lavallée Family; 1860; albumen print; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Félix Nadar; Self-Portrait; 1855; salt print

Roger Fenton; The Valley of the Shadow of Death; 1855; salted paper print from collodion negative

Roger Fenton; Fenton’s Photographic Van; 1855

Julia Margaret Cameron; Mrs. Herbert Duckworth (Mother of Virginia Woolf); 1867; albumen print; 34 x 26 cm

Pierre-Louis Pierson; Scherzo di Follia (The Countess Castiglione Posing With a Frame Held Over One Eye); 1863-6, printed in 1940s; gelatin silver print from glass negative; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Portrait of a Man

Hugh Diamond; Inmates of the Surrey County Asylum; 1852; albumen print

Antoine François Jean Claudet; Geography Lesson; 1851; daguerrotype

Eugene Delacroix; Ref. Photograph of One of the Artist’s Models; c.1854

Louis Jaques Mandé Daguerre; Still-lige; 1837; daguerrotype

Etienne Carjat; Alexander Dumas

Timothy H. O’Sullivan; Pyramid Lake, Nevada; 1868; albumen print; 19.8 x 20 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Southworth & Hawes; Albert Sands Southworth; c.1848; daguerrotype; 14 x 10.7 cm; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Claudet Stereoscope

Félix Nadar; Aerial View of the Etoile District of Paris

Honoré Daumier; Nadar Elevant la Photographie a la hauteur de l’Art; 1862; lithograph; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Félix Nadar; Alexandre Dumas; 1855; salt print from wet collodion negative; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Self-Portrait of Disdéri; c.1870; albumen print; 9.8 x 6 cm; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Félix Nadar; H. Daumier (22nd plate in bound selection of 81 illustrated essays from the series ‘Galerie contemporaine, Littéraire artistique’); c.1876-94; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Félix Nadar; Catacombs, Paris; c.1861

Thomas Easterly; Keokuk or the Watchful Fox; 1847; hand colored quarter plate daguerrotype

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri; Les jambes de l’Opera; 1856

Etienne Carjat; Victor Hugo; 1876; woodbury type

Unidentified; Portrait of a Man with a Hammer; c.1865; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Etienne Carjat; Courbet; c.1876-94; woodburytype; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

John Tompson; Cangue; 1870-2; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Albert Sands Southworth; Harriet Beecher Stowe; 1850s; daguerrotype; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Etienne Carjat; Charles Baudelaire; 1878; albumen print from wet collodion negative; International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Félix Nadar; Self-Portrait as an Aeronaut; c.1863; albumen print

Julia Margaret Cameron; Pomona (Alice Liddell); 1872; albumen print; 36.8 x 28.5 cm

Félix Nadar; Pierrot Laughing; 1855; gelatin-coated salted paper print; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Dead Child; 1850; gelatin silver print

Félix Nadar; Sarah Bernhardt; 1864; albumen print; Bibliothèque nationale de France

Oscar Rejlander; Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals: Fear; 1872; heliotype

Lady Filmer; Untitled; 1864

Chicago: World’s Columbian Exposition; 1893

Félix Nadar; Nadar and his Wife in a Balloon Basket

William Henry Fox Talbot; Botanical Specimen; c.1835; photogenic drawing negative; National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television (Great Britain)