A Century of photographs, 1846-1946 : selected from the collections of the Library of Congress / compiled by Renata V. Shaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Renata V.

Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.

Library of Congress. Quarterly journal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library of Congress--Photograph collections.

Library of Congress.

Photograph collections.

Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.

Physical Description:

viii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Library of Congress, 1980.

Contents:

The pioneers. John Plumbe, Jr., and the first architectural photographs of the Nation's Capitol / A. Fern and M. Kaplan; Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War / H.D. Milhollen; Two photographs of Abraham Lincoln / P. Vanderbilt; A Preston Butler ambrotype of Lincoln / A Fern and H.D. Milhollen; The Mathew B. Brady Collection / H.D. Milhollen; The Brady-Handy collection / H.D. Milhollen; The case of the missing photographers, Haas & Peale / M. Kaplan

Creative photography. Creative photography, 1869-1969 / J.C. Maddox; Essay on a tintype / J.C. Maddox; The Arnold Genthe collection / P. Vanderbilt

Documentary photography abroad. Africa through the eyes of a camera / M. Kaplan; The Matson collection / G.S. Hobart; The American Red Cross collection of photographs and negatives / H.D. Milhollen; Photographs of Nazi origin / P. Vanderbilt

Documentary photography in the United States. Erwin Evans Smith, cowboy photographer / O.L. McKeen; Alexander Graham Bell, a photograph album / B.W. Brannan and P.T. Thompson; Discovering Theodor Horydczak's Washington / B.W. Brannan

About the authors.

Notes:

Consists of articles originally published in the Quarterly journal of the Library of Congress that explore the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0844402958

OCLC:

5497409