Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Gras, c. 1826

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, View of the Boulevard du Temple, c. 1839

Anna Atkins, Photographs of British Algae, c. 1843

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William Henry Fox Talbot, The Open Door, 1843

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Two New Haven Fishwives, c. 1843-47

Alexander Gardner, Picnic Party at Antietam Bridge, 22^nd September, 1862 from Photographic Sketch Book of the War

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Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, 1863

Alexander Gardner, A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, VA, 1865

Carleton Watkins, The Yosemite Valley, 1855-56

Unknown photographer, Frederick Douglass, 1847

Julia Margaret Cameron, Sir John Hershel, 1867

Louis Agassiz and J.T. Healy, Slave daguerreotype, 1850

Carrie Mae Weems, Sea Island Series, 1992

Arnold Genthe, A Slave Girl in Holiday Attire, 1898

Affidavit in support of native-born U.S. citizen Lee Gum Yoke, 1884-1904

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Edward Curtis, The Vanishing Race, 1904

Peter Henry Emerson, Poling the Marsh Hay, 1886

George Davison, The Onion Field, 1889

Gertrude Käsebier, The Picture Book, 1905

Alfred Stieglitz, Waiting for the Return, 1895

Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907

Alfred Stieglitz, Equivalent, 1926

Edward Steichen, Flatiron, 1904

Alvin Langdon Coburn, The Octopus, 1912

Jacob Riis, Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street, c. 1889

Lewis Hine, Ten-Year-Old-Spinner, North Carolina Cotton Mill, 1908-1909

Lewis Hine, A Madonna of the Tenements, 1911

Lewis Hine, Immigrants Going Down Plank from a Ferry Boat That LandsThem on Ellis Island, 1905

Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878

Etienne-Jules Marey, Linear Graph of Running Man in Black and White Stripes. 1882

Francis Galton, The Jewish Type, 1883

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Unknown photographer, Rubin Stacy, a lynching victim, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1935

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Paul Strand, Wall Street, New York, 1915

El Lissitzky, The Constructor, 1924

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic, 1919

László Moholy Nagy, Photogram, 1922

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Edward Weston, Pepper No. 30, 1930

Shigemi Uyeda, Reflections on the Oil Ditch, 1925