Popular collections - Photos
Say cheese! Can you think of any personal possessions more endearing than photographs and motion picture film? As a visual society, we capture almost every event with still and video cameras, even phones. Our still photograph collection numbers more than 500,000 and covers the 1850s to the present. It includes work renowned photographers such as Alexander Gardner, Albert Bierstadt, L. W. Halbe, Henry L. Wolf, and Alfred Lawrence.
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