This class includes photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This class includes daguerreotypes, tin types, cabinet cards and many others.
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Sunset, Niagara N.Y.
Charles Bierstadt
The stereograph features a black and white image of the silhouette of a person standing on the edge of a body of water. Trees line the horizon, and clouds are pictured overhead. The image is mounted on an orange card with rounded edges.
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Dewey in N.Y. 7th Reg. N. Y.N.G. on Riverside Drive
The stereograph contains a sepia-toned image of a military regiment marching outdoors. The regiment is led by George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy and only person in United States history to attain the rank.
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A Lesson on Brother's Bike
Sterro-Photo Co.
The stereograph is a black and white image of a woman on a bike with another woman supporting the bike. The image is on a gray card mount.
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Klondikers Climbing the "Golden Stair" and "Peterson's" Trail, Chilcoot Pass, Alaska.
Keystone View Company and B. L. Singley
The stereograph contains a black and white image of a mining camp that sat at the base of the Golden Stair, a difficult incline that leads to the Chilkoot Pass. The Pass is between the state of Alaska (United States) and British Columbia (Canada). Numerous men and tents are pictured throughout the camp. The image is adhered to an orange-colored paper card mount.
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"I's Boun' to Hab a Christmas Dinna!"
Keystone View Company and B. L. Singley
The stereograph is numbered 9397 in the series. It features a black and white image (twice) depicting a racial caricature of an African-American man. The man is shown reaching into a chicken coop and grasping for a hen. It is mounted on a peach-colored card with rounded corners.
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Is yo' sho' lady when I wears dese stockings I won' fin' ma laigs all black!
Underwood and Underwood
This object is a caricature reminiscent of the plate ""Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?"" from E.W. Clay's racist satiric series, Life in Philadelphia, originally published in the late 1820s and early 1830s. Depicts an African-American man dressed as a woman, sitting in front of the counter of a dry goods store and inquiring about a pair of dark stockings which ""she"" holds. A smiling female sales clerk assists the customer while displaying a second pair of dark stockings. Bolts of fabric rest on shelves behind the clerk, socks and hosiery hang above, and a white female customer shops at the other end of the counter. It is printed on gray mount featuring the Sun Sculpture trademark.
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Learning to Coast - The Finish.
George W. Griffith
The stereograph contains a black and white image of two women lying on the ground with overturned bicycles. Four individuals look on in the distance. A bridge stands in the background. The image is mounted on a peach-colored mount.
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North Front of the Executive Mansion, from Pennsylvania Ave.
H. T. Anthony
The stereograph is mounted on an orange card and features a black and white image of the White House from the North Lawn
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Albumen Print of Abraham Lincoln
Henry F. Warren
The photograph features the image of Abraham Lincoln, the last taken before his death. Ref: O-112.
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Seated Portrait of Abraham Lincoln
Anthony Berger
Seated portrait of A. Lincoln by Anthony Berger; On Cabinet card mount; Portrait used for the engraved bust of Lincoln that appeared on the United States five dollar bill for many years, from 1914 to 2007
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Brady's Album Gallery. No. 605. Group of President Lincoln, Gen. McClellan, and Suite
Alexand er Gardner
This object is a mounted albumen print featuring a group photo of A. Lincoln, Ward Hill Lamon, and Army officers; The photograph was taken by Alexander Gardner at Antietam, MD
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President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan in McClellan's Tent
Alexander Gardner and Taylor and Huntington
The stereograph features a black and white image of President Lincoln and General McClellan in McClellan's tent mounted to an orange card; The original image was taken at the Antietam Battlefield by Alexander Gardner in Oct. of 1862; A captured Confederate battle flag may be seen in the lower left corner
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Vignette Portrait of A. Lincoln
William Painter Pearson
Photo on a cabinet-size mount, vignette portrait of A. Lincoln taken by T.P. Pearson in 1858. This is a reversed image of original ambrotype. Imprint; "Rider...Chicago." Ref: O-8.