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Early photography, 1839–1899
Curated by SERUM · 24 images · 3 November 2026
The first sixty years of the medium: long exposures, paper and glass, faces and places holding still.
Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajeshvara Temple), plate 12 from Photographic Views of Tanjore and Trivady (Madras: Madras Presidency), Captain Linnaeus Tripe
46 Photographs from an Album, Raja Deen Dayal
Photographs of Northern India, Samuel Bourne
Photographie Lunaire Rayonnement de Tycho - Phase Croissante, Loewy et Puiseux
Photographie de la lune a son 1er Quartier, Lewis M. Rutherfurd
Photographie Lunaire Capuanus - Bouillaud - Gassendi, Loewy et Puiseux
Photographie Lunaire Blancanus - Tycho - Schiller, Loewy et Puiseux
Photographs of a Standing Male Nude Model ("Joseph Smith"), Thomas Eakins
Photographie Lunaire: Copernic-Képler-Aristarique, Maurice Loewy
General View of Monuments Carved into Bedrock with Photographer's Dahabieh. Abu Simbel, Félix Teynard
Album of 37 photographs, Raja Deen Dayal
Photographie Lunaire-- Region Centrale, French 19th Century
Carte photographique de la lune, planche XIV (Photographic Chart of the Moon, plate XIV), Charles le Morvan
Carte photographique de la lune, planche XVII (Photographic Chart of the Moon, plate XVII), Charles le Morvan
Carte photographique de la lune, planche XX (Photographic Chart of the Moon, plate XX), Charles le Morvan
Carte photographique de la lune, planche XXIII (Photographic Chart of the Moon, plate XXIII), Charles le Morvan
Grotecloss Photographic Gallery, New York, William Grotecloss
Collins Photography Studio, Urbana, Ohio, George W. Collins
Photographic album including a tintype of Amanda Berry Smith, American 19th Century
H.H. Worthing Photographer, Hannah H. Worthing
Portrait of a Photographer, Richou
The Photographer Sescau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Nadar Elevating Photography to the Heights of Art, plate 367 from Souvenirs d’artistes, Honoré Victorin Daumier 
Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War, Volume I, Alexander Gardner