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Cooperative Operaie di Trieste Istria e Friuli (Muggia)

Houses: Old Guild Home, corner of Washington and Bartlett St., Roxbury (elevated railroad corner shops on the site of it now)

Old Cathedral, Cartagena.. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

Odder Station 1884 - A black and white photo of a large house

Gostivar, razglednica od 1930ti godini

Tiflis, Bridge to the Tatar bazaar

BASA-3K-7-511-81, Национална библиотека на България

Razglednica Jesenic 1940 postcard

Kolozsvar Foter 1897 - A black and white photo of a town square

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[Government House, Calcutta], India, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Throne room, government house, Calcutta, India

[N.E. Gate of Government House, Calcutta], India

Throne room, government house, Calcutta, India

Government House. - Calcutta. (BM 1928,1210.149)

The Maidan, Calcutta, from Government House (c. 1865)

Chandeliered ballroom of government house, Calcutta, India

Government House, Calcutta in 1842

[Grand Entrance to the Government House, Calcutta], India

[Queens Proclamation, Government House, Calcutta, November 1858], India

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The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to hold light-sensitive silver salts. The paper is then sensitized in a solution of silver nitrate, and exposed in a camera or under a negative. After exposure, the print is developed in a solution of gallic acid and silver nitrate, which reduces the silver salts to metallic silver and creates the final image. The albumen print process was widely used for commercial and fine art photography in the 19th century and produced high-quality, detailed images with a distinctive glossy finish.

With the invention of photography, the eighteenth-century British passion for recording exotic lands and studies of the peoples in India was given new impetus. The earliest photography on the continent dates from 1840 in Calcutta, the political center of British India. The technology for photography arrived in India quickly became popular among the local rulers-many of whom employed photographers at their courts-as well as the British who had come to make their fortunes in the colony. For both populations, the new medium replaced painting as the method for recording the local landscape, architecture, people, and important events.

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1858 - 1861
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Colonial India

Early photography in colonial India
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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label_outline Explore West Bengal, Calcutta, Proclamation

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2

Kolkata from "[Pictorial tour round India; with remarks on India past and present, alleged and true causes of Indian poverty, supposed or real, twelve means available for promoting the wealth of the country, etc.]"

Just about every New York City adult, and millions more nationwide who watch crime stories on American television, has heard of Rikers Island. It's the vast city's main jail complex in the middle of the East River. This photo of a lovely house and grounds was obviously taken elsewhere . . . at the home in the city's Queens borough whose original owner, Dutch immigrant Abraham Rycken Van Lent, whose family name would be americanized as "Riker", also owned the island that would one day hold the notorious jail

Muffler shop in the Willets Point neighborhood of New York City's borough, or county-like jurisdiction, of Queens

Throgs Neck Bridge, Spans East River from Queens to Bronx, Throgs Neck, Bronx County, NY

Old Royal Palace, formerly living rooms of the Kings and Queens, Seoul, Korea

Belmont Racetrack, Queens, Long Island, New York. View VI

[Victorian House], 19th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Scene along Northern Boulevard in the Flushing neighborhood of the New York City borough (or county-like juristiction) of Queens

A Radish Plant, Seed, and Flower, India

[Gunpowder Agents Bungalow, Ishapoor.], Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lakshmana and Sugriva Being Carried by Palanquin to Receive Rama's Blessings: Folio from the dispersed “Mankot" Ramayana series

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