| Description |
viii, 211 pages ; 25 x 29 cm |
| Note |
Consists of articles originally published in the Quarterly journal of the Library of Congress that explore the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The pioneers -- John Plumbe, Jr., and the first architectural photographs of the Nation's Capitol / Alan Fern and Milton Kaplan -- Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War / Hirst D. Milhollen -- Two photographs of Abraham Lincoln: a Calvin Jackson ambrotype and a Mathew B. Brady negative / Paul Vanderbilt -- A Preston Butler ambrotype of Lincoln / Alan Fern and Hirst D. Milhollen -- The Mathew B. Brady collection / Hirst D. Milhollen -- The Brady-Handy collection / Hirst D. Milhollen -- The case of the missing photographers: Haas and Peale / Milton Kaplan -- Creative photography -- Creative photography, 1869-1969 / Jerald C. Maddox -- Essay on a tintype / Jerald C. Maddox -- The Arnold Genthe collection / Paul Vanderbilt -- Documentary photography abroad -- Africa through the eye of a camera: The Carpenter collection / Milton Kaplan -- The Matson collection: a half century of photography in the Middle East / George S. Hobart -- The American Red Cross collection of photographs and negatives / Hirst D. Milhollen -- Photographs of Nazi origin / Paul Vanderbilt -- Documentary photography in the United States -- Erwin Evans Smith: cowboy photographer -- Alexander Graham Bell: a photograph album / Beverly W. Brannan with Patricia T. Thompson -- Discovering Theodor Horydczak's Washington / Beverly W. Brannan |
| Local Note |
Oct. 1999 Reentered 016298315 |
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Oct. 1999 Reentered 016298315 |
| Subject |
Library of Congress -- Photograph collections.
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Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.
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| Added Author |
Shaw, Renata V.
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Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.
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Library of Congress
Quarterly journal.
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| ISBN |
0844402958 |
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