Joseph NicéphoreNiépce, View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826. Heliograph.Joseph NicéphoreNiépce, View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826. Heliograph.

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, L’Atelier de l’artiste (The Artist’s Studio) ,

c. 1937, Daguerreotype

Hippolyte Bayard, Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man, 1840, Direct paper positive.

William Henry Fox Talbot, The Open Door, 1844,

salted paper from paper negative.

Anna Atkins, Image from Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, 1843-1853.

J. T. Zealy, Jack and Jack (from the side), 1850s. Daguerreotype. From the collection of the Peabody Museum Archaeology and Ethnology.

George Phillips Bond and John Adams Whipple,

Moon, c. 1851.

Daguerreotype

Mathew B. Brady (1823-1896),

Portrait, Couple, ca. 1860.

Ambrotype.

Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, Early Operation Using Ether for Anesthesia, 1847. Daguerreotype.

Maxime Du Camp, Head of a Pharaoh at the Egyptian Temples of Abu Simbel, 1852. Salted paper print.

Antoine Claudet, The Geography Lesson, 1851. Stereoscopic daguerreotype.

J. P. Ball, Frederick Douglass, 1867.

Carte-de-visite.

EdouardBaldus, Cloister of Saint-Trophîme, Arles, 1851.

Partly hand-painted paper print.

Hill and Adamson, Newhaven Fisherwomen, ca. 1845. Salted paper print.

Roger Fenton,

Zouave, 2nd Division, 1855.

Albumen print.

Roger Fenton, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855.

Paper print.

Mathew Brady,

Abraham Lincoln (The Cooper Union Portrait),

1860.

Alexander Gardner, Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, 1863.

Wet collodion print.

Samuel Bourne, View of the south end of the lake at NainiTal, 1866. Albumen print.

FeliceBeato, Interior of Fort Taku immediately after capture, 1860. Albumen print.

Timothy O’Sullivan, Pyramid and Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada, 1878.

Albumen print.

Watkins, Cape Horn near Celilo, c. 1867. Albumen print.

Carl Rudolf Huber,

Untitled, 1875-76.

Albumen print.

John Thomson, The Crawlers,

1877-78.

Woodburytype.

Jacob Riis, Five Cents a Spot from
How the Other Half Lives, 1890.

Lewis W. Hine,

Madonna, 1905.

Gelatin silver print.

Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), Self Portrait, 1900. Bertillon Card.

Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878. Wet plate collodion prints.

Peter Henry Emerson, Life and Landscape of the Norfolk Broads, 1885-86.

Platinum print.

Alfred Stieglitz,

The Steerage, 1907.

Photogravure.

Gertrude Käsebier,

Blessed Art Thou Among Women,

1899.

Platinum print.

Alvin Langdon Coburn,

Vortograph,

1917.

Gelatin silver print.

Paul Strand,

Photograph—New York, 1917.

Photogravure.

Paul Strand,

Photograph—New York, 1917.

Photogravure.