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Photographers’ Identities Catalog (PIC) is an experimental interface to a collection of biographical data describing photographers, studios, manufacturers, and others involved in the production of photographic images.
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Format includes such common 19th and early 20th century...
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330292 Aerial Photographers of New England (American, active...
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Sep 21, 2013 · Many people wish to research historical photographers. Perhaps you are tracing your family history, a distant relative was photographer or you are trying to date an old photograph you have. The following relate mostly to photographers and concentrate on photographic resources.
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Several hundred prints and photographs offering the complete content of a wide range of selected image collections and illustrated monographs: Hudson River mansions, including Washington Irving's home and vicinity in the 1860s; street views by Alice Austen from 1896; a panorama of Fifth Avenue from 1911, and more.
It was natural for the founding libraries and benefactors of NYPL to collect local and regional pictorial publications, a fact that explains the strength of 19th- and early 20th-century books picturing New York City and vicinity in the Library's holdings. In addition, Library staff actively sought to supplement books with original archival material...
Butler, Joseph T. Washington Irving's Sunnyside(c1974). Gray, Christopher, ed. Fifth Avenue, 1911, from start to finish in historic block-by-block photographs (c1994). Hanson, David A. "A.A. Turner, American photolithographer" History of photography10 (July/Sept 1986): 193-211 Lynch, Virginia. Washington Irving footprints (1922). Novotny, Ann. Alic...
Nov 29, 2018 · The oldest known photograph of New York City is a daguerrotype—a common early photo process used to make images publicly available—which is believed to have been taken in 1848. It may be hard to imagine, but the photo depicts a home on a hill in the Upper West Side!
Several hundred prints and photographs offering the complete content of a wide range of selected image collections and illustrated monographs: Hudson River mansions, including Washington Irving's home and vicinity in the 1860s; street views by Alice Austen from 1896; a panorama of Fifth Avenue from 1911, and more.
Early Photography. The camera [cigarette card]. Courtesy of The New York Public Library. Early cameras were cumbersome, costly, and often required specialist knowledge of the devices and developing chemicals to use them correctly.
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Four Magnum Photographers Interpret the Theme “Connection”. In an extract from the book ‘Ernst Haas: Letters & Stories,’ Inge Bondi tells the story behind the photographer's first color assignment in New York in the early 1950s.