dry plate negatives

U.S.S. Chicago, one of the crew

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City Hall subway station, New York

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Ruins of City Hall, [1906 earthquake, San Francisco, Calif.]

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To Sinai via the desert. Wady Feiran and Jebel Serbal

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) between Dier El Banat ( to the south) and Sheikh Ahmed and Sheikh Shebib Bedouin cemetery (to the north), where a dense palm grove covers that section of F... More

To Sinai via the desert. Wady Feiran and Jebel Serbal

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) between Dier El Banat ( to the south) and Sheikh Ahmed and Sheikh Shebib Bedouin cemetery (to the north), where a dense palm grove covers that section of F... More

2 men on camels, Sinai Mts. i.e., mountains

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... More

European man in metal helmet firing on Indians while other Indians wat...

Title devised by cataloger. Photograph of a painting, possibly by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris; possibly of Spanish colonization in 16th or 17th century. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society ... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin couple

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph shows a winter Bedouin encampment/tent (Arabic: Beit Sha'ar), possibly from the Gebaliya tribe who inhab... More

To Sinai via the desert. Wady Gharandel, palms of Elim

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Photograph taken from Wadi Ghrandal (Biblical Elim) at its outlet into El Hegb Plain at the palm grove and spring area, on Sinai's western coas... More

Sinai, 16th century Egypt

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Wadi Ghrandal (Biblical Elim) at its outlet into El Hegb Plain at the palm grove and spring area, on Sinai's western coast of the Gulf of Suez to the south of t... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin home in Wady E...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the perimeter of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula(?), looking northwards and showing a w... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Native hut made of pal...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Native hut made of palm branches. On negative: 1521 Native Hut in Wady Hebran (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. P... More

To Sinai via the desert. Jebel Tahuneh.

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... More

Sinai, Bedouin woman & child

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph shows a Bedouin woman sitting with her child as part of... More

Sinai. Oasis in Wady Feiran, and Jebel Serbal

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) between Dier El Banat ( to the south) and Sheikh Ahmed and Sheikh Shebib Bedouin cemetery (to the north), where a dense palm grove covers that section of F... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Caring for sick camel

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Caring for a sick camel (crossed out). On negative: 1526 (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken in Wa... More

To Sinai via the desert. Luxurious palm grove in Wady Feiran

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) between Dier El Banat ( to the south) and Sheikh Ahmed and Sheikh Shebib Bedouin cemetery (to the north), where a dense palm grove covers that section of F... More

Boy & camel, Mt. Sinai box

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from a low elevated valley at the perimeter of no... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin woman with all...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Bedouin. On negative sleeve: 06623, Matson call # 862. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph shows a winter Bedouin encam... More

Sinai. Jebel Tahuneh in Wady Feiran

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... More

To Sinai via the desert. Jebel Serbal from Wady Feiran

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) downstream area to the west of the dense palm grove of Feiran Oasis, somewhere in the vicinity of the close localities of El Hswa, El Khataten, El Mgrahein ... More

To Sinai via the desert. Scene in Wady Feiran

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) somewhere to the east of the vicinity of Tell El Mahrad and the junction with Wadi A'liyat (?), where a the palm grove is less dense in that section than ot... More

Sinai, 16th century Egypt

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly El Raha Plain (Ahtha) the north most coastal plain or El Hbeg Plai... More

To Sinai via the desert. El-Medawa summit of Jebel Serbal

Photograph taken from the crown-shape summit of Gebel Serbal (El Madhawwa). (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018) Wadi El Sheikh and Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim of Amalek) were the upland sectio... More

Sinai Egypt, Extinct City, Jordan

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly El Raha Plain (Ahtha) the north most coastal plain or El Hbeg Plai... More

To Sinai via the desert. Remains of early Christian structures in Wady...

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking west and showing the extended mountain r... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Enclosure where the da...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Enclosure where dates are dried (crossed out). On negative: 1523 (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph tak... More

Camels at oasis, Sinai

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) somewhere in the vicinity of Dier El Banat and Sheikh Ahmed and Sheikh Shebib, where a dense palm grove covers that section of Feiran Oasis. (Source: A. Sha... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin camp

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the perimeter of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula(?), looking southwards and showing a w... More

Sinai Mts. i.e., mountains

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran at the foot of Gebel Tahuna in the vicinity of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking south and showing the crown-shap... More

To Sinai via the desert. One of Serbal's five peaks

Photograph taken below one of the crown-shape summit of Gebel Serbal. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018) Wadi El Sheikh and Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim of Amalek) were the upland section of D... More

Sinai. Oasis in Wady Feiran (Rephidim), and distant view of Jebel Serb...

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) between Dier El Banat ( to the south) and Sheikh Ahmed and Sheikh Shebib Bedouin cemetery (to the north), where a dense palm grove covers that section of F... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. In the footsteps of fa...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: In the Fo[otsteps] of his father, Bedouin boy with camel. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from a low elevated... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. El-Kaa, the Wilderness...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly El Raha Plain (Ahtha) the n... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Typical scene around t...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken in the oasis of Wadi Feiran or Wadi EL Sheikh(?), where there is an abundant palm and Tarfaa grove... More

Sinai, 16th century Egypt

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) downstream area to the west of the dense palm grove of Feiran Oasis, somewhere in the vicinity of the close localities of El Hswa, El Khataten, El Mgrahein ... More

El-Kuntilla. Police station. A frontier post on Sinai boundary

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken in the vicinity of the Egyptian desert frontier outpost of Taba(?), looking east and showing the c... More

Sinai. Junction of Wady Feiran and Wady Aleyat

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran at the foot of Gebel Tahuna in the vicinity of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking south and showing the crown-shap... More

Sinai. Jebel Tahuneh (Hill of Moses). American Colony, Jerusalem

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... More

To Sinai via the desert. Wilderness of Shur

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Wilderness of Shur. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of ... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Dates spread out to dr...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Dates spread out to dry (crossed out). On negative: 1524 (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken in Wa... More

To Sinai via the desert. Grand view from Jebel Serbal

Photograph taken from the crown-shape summit of Gebel Serbal (El Madhawwa), looking northeast and showing section of the summit from the right to the centre and the vicinity of the upstream tributary (El Loza s... More

Camel drinking, Sinai Mts. i.e., mountains

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... More

To Sinai via the desert. The abundance of water in Wady Feiran

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: (Rephidim) the Lar. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) somewhere in the vic... More

To Sinai via the desert. Statue of Waghorn at Port Tewfik

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: [Sta]tue of Waghorn at Port Tewfik. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of... More

Series of first aerial photographs of Palestine and Syria. Volcano and...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Volcano and crater in the Hauran Mountains 1800. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Post Office, Utica, N.Y

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "G 1800" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018257. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Series of first aerial photographs of Palestine and Syria. Volcano and...

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Henry Raeburn - T.P. Baillie, 1810, head-and-shoulders portrait

Title devised by cataloger; Caption on negative: Portrait of T.P. Baillie, 1810. Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting, done 1810, in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Detroit ... More

Agave du Mexique

Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris) Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known for his photographs of the architecture and street scenes of Paris, France, late 19th and early 20th centuri... More

Hotel de Sens, rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris

Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris) Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known for his photographs of the architecture and street scenes of Paris, France, late 19th and early 20th centuri... More

Eugène Atget - Jardin des Plantes

Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris) Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known for his photographs of the architecture and street scenes of Paris, France, late 19th and early 20th centuri... More

Street Paver LACMA M.2008.40.154.12

Wikimedia Commons image page ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Street_Paver_LACMA_M.2008.40.154.12.jpg ) .Description..Title.Street Paver..Description..: France, 1956.: Photographs.: Silver (gold-toned).... More

La Rue Beaubourg - et la maison ou ont en lieu le 14 Avril 1834 - les ...

Digital Accession Number: 1981:0951:0054.0001..Maker: Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)..Title: La Rue Beaubourg - et la maison ou ont en lieu le 14 Avril 1834 - les massacres de la Rue Transnonain - Rue Beaubou... More

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left

This is a copy negative made from a photographic print. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is av... More

The photographer's assistants

[Woman with baby girl, possibly mother and daughter]

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[Girl, seated]

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[Thos. F. Leete] - Daguerreotype portrait

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dr. Benj. P. Brodie

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[Couple seated]

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[Woman in coiffed hair with comb, and boy, possibly her son]

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[Seated man with hands folded in front]

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[Bearded man, seated]

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[Boy, seated]

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[Seated woman]

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[Seated boy in checkered jacket]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Girl in pantaloons standing by bench]

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The scavengers

Queretaro, Church i.e. Convent de la Cruz

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Includes food vendors; "Wells Fargo" on food cart. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8515. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Zacetecas sic, the Alameda

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8335. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Cathedral, St. Augustine

"W.H.J. & Co." and "56" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 3544. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Primrose Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). "276" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05364. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Popocatapetl sic from Tlamacas

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8638. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Restless steam yacht

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05351. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Heading(s) in 610 field(s) unverified.

Ancestral home of Geo. Washington

Owl Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05341. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Paseo of Guadaloupe, William Henry Jackson photograph

Attribution to Jackson and locale based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). "5600" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8320. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

White Bass Lake, Sandberg's

Eden, Indian River, Fla.

Waseca, Minn., Clear Lake and Maplewood

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Negative cracked and broken lower right. "55" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04527. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Unverified information i... More

Battle field, Mackinac Island

Negative broken lower left and taped to second sheet of glass. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 03791. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

An idle crowd, William Henry Jackson photograph

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Possibly in Amecameca, de Juarez or Tlamacas. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8636. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Military academy at Baton Rouge

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). "7430" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8130. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Cragin's, travellers' tree

Nameless Yacht, Detroit Publishing Company

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05209. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Melbourne

Car ferry, Michigan Central, entering slip, Detroit River

Locale in Detroit based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05572. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Heading(s) in 610 field(s) unverified.

Palms and straw houses at Rascon

Villa Zorayda, The, William Henry Jackson photograph

Title and attribution to Jackson from Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). "King St." on street sign at left. "83" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1... More

Ocean road, Narragansett Pier, R.I

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011379. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Milwaukee, Juneau Park

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). "554" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04808. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Unverified information in this record. 752 field. Est. Juneau Park.

Majestic Building, Detroit

Negative cracked through middle. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 03751. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Marquette statue, Marquette, Mich

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). "James Marquette, intrepid explorer" on statue base. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04767. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Peons at work near Rascon

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Possibly railroad construction and maintenance. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8397. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Cottages at Maplewood

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04529. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Jupiter Inlet from the lighthouse, Fla

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 03667. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Making tortillas, William Henry Jackson photograph

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Locale based on negative D418-8466. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8467. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Gate in plaza, Amecameca

Attribution to Jackson based on similarity of title to photo no. 8625 in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 6466. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The great spring near Hercules