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Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South - Early buildings and gardens of southern states photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston between 1927 and 1940 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Carpenter (Frank and Frances) Collection - Photographs produced and gathered by Frank and Frances Carpenter, ca. 1860-1934, to illustrate popular writings on world geography ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Cartoon Prints, American - Prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompassing several forms of political art ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Cartoon Prints, British - British political and satirical prints from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Civil War Photographs - Photographs made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and in its immediate aftermath, including images made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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College
Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection -
Fine art prints made by more than 180 artists living
and working in Japan, encompassing a diversity of styles,
printmaking techniques, and subject matter; the prints
were selected for the organization's 50th anniversary
show ("About This Collection" via
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Edward S Curtis Collection: Photographs of Native Americans (collection profile with sample images) |
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Daguerreotypes - Early photographs, 1839-1864, consisting primarily of portraits, with a few architectural views, outdoor scenes, and copies of works of art ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Detroit Publishing Company Collection - Photographs documenting North American landscapes and cityscape, ca. 1880-1920, by one of the largest American publishers of postcards and photographic views("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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The Work of Charles
and Ray Eames -
An archive of design ideas and a record of the Eameses'
work, including photographs, drawings, prints, and
ephemera, primarily
1940-1978 (collection profile with sample images). |
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Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection - Extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1943 produced through a noted U.S. government photography project ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog). See also: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Written Records: Selected Documents |
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Roger Fenton Crimean War Photographs ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Fine Prints by Federal Art Project Artists (collection summary) |
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Fine Prints, Japanese, pre-1915 - Works dating from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, including the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e and Yokohama-e ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
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Toni Frissell Collection - Photographs, documenting Frissell's distinguished career as a photojournalist and fashion photographer (collection summary with sample images) |
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Arnold Genthe Collection - Photographs from the studio of Arnold Genthe, including studio portraits, dancers, San Francisco Chinatown scenes, and travel photos in the U.S. and abroad, 1896-1942 (collection summary with sample images) |
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Gottscho-Schleisner Collection - Photographs of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories and historic buildings, chiefly in the northeastern United States, ca. 1935-1955 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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John C.H. Grabill Collection - Photographs by John C. H. Grabill of frontier life in South Dakota and Wyoming, ca. 1888-1892 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Harris & Ewing, Inc., Photographic
Negatives - Photographs of people, events, and architecture, primarily in Washington, D.C., during the period 1905-1945 (collection profile with a sample image) |
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Carol
M. Highsmith Archive - Architecture and
architectural renovation projects in Washington, D.C.,
and throughout the United States, as well as political
figures, and people in the U.S., 1980- ("About
This Collection" via
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
View the Carol M. Highsmith Image Sampler
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Historic
American Buildings Survey/Historic American
Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey - Documentary measured
drawings, photographs, and written historical
and architectural information for thousands of structures and sites in the United States
and its territories ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Horydczak Collection - Photographs documenting architecture and social life in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection - Photographs made and collected by one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer, ca. 1864-1940 (collection summary and links). Also, view Biographical Overview and Chronology |
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Kern County Survey Collection: Photographs of agriculture and industry in Kern County, California, 1880s (collection summary with sample images) |
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Lamb
Studios Archive: Preparatory and study sketches
for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings,
metalwork,
and interior architecture designed by J. & R. Lamb
Studios ("About
This Collection" via Prints & Photographs
Online Catalog) |
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George S. Lawrence and Thomas Houseworth Collection: Photographs of California and Nevada, mid-nineteenth century ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs: Portrait photographs of portrait photographs, called ambrotypes and tintypes, represent both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog). Also, view Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives -- biographical essays of soldiers represented in the portraits. |
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Lomax Collection - Photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for the Archive of American Folk-Song ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Look Magazine Photograph Collection - Photographs created to illustrate Look magazine and related publications produced by companies founded by Gardner Cowles. The cataloged portion of the collection totals four million published and unpublished images, most dating 1952-1971, covering U.S. and international lifestyles, celebrities, and events ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Visual Materials
from the Papers of Clare Boothe Luce - Images documenting Luce's varied careers and her personal life (collection summary with images) |
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World War II Sketches by Victor A. Lundy - A visual diary with 158 pencil sketches brings to life the wartime experience of noted architect Victor A. Lundy, who served in the U.S. 26th Infantry Division during World War II. (collection summary with images)
View slide show: World War II Sketches by Victor A. Lundy
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Photographs in the Seagram County
Court House Archives |
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Erwin E. Smith Collection: Photographs of American cowboy and ranch life, 1905-12 (collection profile) |
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Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection
of Caricature and Cartoon (collection profile with sample images) |
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Tissandier Collection - Prints and some photographs documenting the early history of aeronautics with an emphasis on balloon flight in France and other European countries ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Turkestan Album (collection
profile) - A visual survey of Central
Asia, ca. 1871-1872.
About 1,200 photographs, with some architectural plans,
watercolor drawings, and maps, arranged
in four parts. |
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U.S. News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (collection profile) |
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Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection - Portrait and some landscape photographs taken by photographer Carl Van Vechten between 1932 and 1964 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Western Survey Photographs: Checklists of the Stereographs from the Clarence King and George M. Wheeler Explorations, 1867-1874 |
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Visual materials from the Papers of John D. Whiting (John D. Whiting Collection) documents two related subject areas: (1) places, events, and people in the Middle East, and (2) daily life among members and associates at the American Colony in Jerusalem. More than 3,200 images cover the years 1870 to 1951, with the bulk dating from 1900 to 1940. |
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World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection - Images by William Henry Jackson of various types of transportation in North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania, 1894-1896 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
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Photographs Taken by the Wright Brothers of Aviation Experiments, Home, and Family (collection profile) |
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