Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, Unidentified Woman, c. 1850

W.S. Hartshorn, Edgar Allan Poe, “Ultima Thule,” 1848

Mathew Brady, Abraham Lincoln (Cooper Union Portrait), February 1860

Mathew Brady, Walt Whitman, 1855-56

J.W. Black (Boston), Portrait of Georgiana Stowe Allen, 1860-65

Joseph T. Zealy (for Louis Agassiz), Jem, Gullah, Belonging to F.N. Green, 1850

McPherson and Oliver, The Scourged Back, A Slave Named Gordon, 1863

Photographer Unknown, Sojourner Truth, “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance,” 1864

Mathew Brady, Soldiers at Rest after Drill, Petersburg, VA, 1864

Thomas C. Roche, A Dead Confederate Soldier, Petersburg, VA, 1865

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

Alexander Gardner, Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, PA, 1863

Carleton Watkins, The Half Dome from Glacier Point, Yosemite No. 101, 1866

Carleton Watkins, El Capitan, Yosemite, Stereograph, published c. 1880--1890

Timothy O’Sullivan, Black Cañon, From Camp 8 Looking Above, 1871

Eadweard Muybridge, The Domes, Yosemite, c. 1874

Eadweard Muybridge, “The Science of the Horse’s Motions,” Scientific American, 1878

(Graphic reproduction of Muybridge’s photographs)

Jacob Riis, Bandit’s Roost, 59 ½ Mulberry St., from How the Other Half Lives, 1888

Jacob Riis, In the Home of an Italian Rag-Picker, Jersey Street, 1890

Lewis Hine, Climbing into America, 1908

Lewis Hine, Italian Madonna, Ellis Island, 1905

Lewis Hine, Carolina Spinner, c. 1909

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self-Portrait, ca. 1896

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Students at Work on a House Built Largely by Them, 1899--1900