Formats and Processes: Panorama #nmahphc
This is an assortment of photographs and cameras from the Photographic History Collection related to panorama photography.
The Photographic History Collection (PHC) collection of panoramic objects includes about about 150 panoramic photographs and sixty pieces of panoramic-related equipment including cameras and specialized accessories such as film holders, printing frames, tripods, gear sets, lenses, and film. The collection is organized into four main groups: 1) Patent and prototype panoramic cameras, 2) standard production panoramic cameras, 3) panoramic photographs, and 4) panoramic related material such as patents, letters, presentations, and books
The smallest panorama is on a real photo postcard at about four inches long; the longest panorama is by Robert Weingarten, Guernica, at 120 inches long…
Formats and Processes: Panorama #nmahphc
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- NMAH Photographic History Collection
- Date Published
- April 28, 2020
- Last Modified
- November 05, 2021
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This is an assortment of photographs and cameras from the Photographic History Collection related to panorama photography.
The Photographic History Collection (PHC) collection of panoramic objects includes about about 150 panoramic photographs and sixty pieces of panoramic-related equipment including cameras and specialized accessories such as film holders, printing frames, tripods, gear sets, lenses, and film. The collection is organized into four main groups: 1) Patent and prototype panoramic cameras, 2) standard production panoramic cameras, 3) panoramic photographs, and 4) panoramic related material such as patents, letters, presentations, and books
The smallest panorama is on a real photo postcard at about four inches long; the longest panorama is by Robert Weingarten, Guernica, at 120 inches long.
Keywords (subject): landscape, cityscape, bridge, bedroom, architecture, hurricane, disaster, neighborhood, porch, mailboxes, cafe, river, Washington, DC; Paris, France; Guernica, Spain
Keywords (photography): panorama, panoramic, camera, fine art photography, hand-colored photography, gelatin silver print, salt print, real photo postcard, Pictorialism, documentary photography, aerial photography, architectural photography
See additional Learning Lab collections for photographers Ashley Gilberston, Anne Noggle, and Friedrich von Martens for additional panoramas.
For additional material, search collections.si.edu.
Photographers included in this Learning Lab collection:
- Ashley Gilbertson
- Alfred W. Hoyt
- Walter J. Hussey
- Friedrich von Martens
- Anne Noggle
- Titian Ramsay Peale
- Ken Regan
- Art Sinsabaugh
- Robert Weingarten
Cameras use by:
- Frederick Mueller
- Louie Palu
- Notes to Other Users
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Notes about the Photographic History Collection from finding aid by Anthony Brooks:
There are approximately 150 photographs in the NMAH collection with an aspect ratio of 2:1 or greater. About two-thirds of the images are large in size, i.e., over a foot in height and often more than 3 to 5 feet in length. Most of the images were taken with panoramic cameras, especially Cirkut cameras, but some were taken using modern 35mm and 70mm panoramic cameras. Others have been combined from two or more individual images. Highlights of the NMAH panoramic image collection include:
• The earliest panorama is an image of San Francisco Harbor composed of five daguerreotypes taken in 1851 by William Shew.
• Eight panoramic photographs of Paris and the river Seine from the mid-1850s by Friedrich von Martens, an early panorama photographer.
• Eighteen Mueller panoramic photographs, all but three of them taken in Baltimore, from the early 20th century. The Baltimore photographs include six taken soon after the major fire of 1904.
• Two astronomical photographs. One is a time lapse panoramic image of the midnight sun in Alaska. Photographs were at twelve minute intervals over a 7 ½ hour period. The other image is the Southern Milky way made up from ten separate images with an exposure time of sixteen hours. Also in the collection is an infrared landscape taken from Lick observatory of the Sierra Mountains some 135 miles away.
• The NMAH collection has about twenty-five photos of the Washington DC Mall and surrounding area dating from the 1870s. The earliest are two large panoramas by Francis Hacker from 1875 and the most recent are from 1970s with a cyclo-pan 70mm camera.
• There are four panoramas of the buildings and student/staff body of the National Park Seminary for ladies taken in 1925 and 1926. The school's grounds later became part of Walter Reed Army Medical School.
• Panoramas by noted photographers including Ann Noggle, Jack Rankin, and Jim Alinder.
• The collection also has about 85 color and black and white panorama images on CD-ROM taken by Stephen Delroy at Ground Zero, New York, in September 2001.
4) Panoramic Reference Materials
The NMAH collection includes reference materials related to the panoramic work of Mueller. The documents include British, French and US patent letters granted in 1917-18 and correspondence from 1912 to 1916 relating to F. W. Mueller's copywriting of his images. Also there is a set of correspondence from the US Navy relating to tests of Mueller's panoramic cameras.
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This is an assortment of photographs and cameras from the Photographic History Collection related to panorama photography.
The Photographic History Collection (PHC) collection of panoramic objects includes about about 150 panoramic photographs and sixty pieces of panoramic-related equipment including cameras and specialized accessories such as film holders, printing frames, tripods, gear sets, lenses, and film. The collection is organized into four main groups: 1) Patent and prototype panoramic cameras, 2) standard production panoramic cameras, 3) panoramic photographs, and 4) panoramic related material such as patents, letters, presentations, and books
The smallest panorama is on a real photo postcard at about four inches long; the longest panorama is by Robert Weingarten, Guernica, at 120 inches long.
Keywords (subject): landscape, cityscape, bridge, bedroom, architecture, hurricane, disaster, neighborhood, porch, mailboxes, cafe, river, Washington, DC; Paris, France; Guernica, Spain
Keywords (photography): panorama, panoramic, camera, fine art photography, hand-colored photography, gelatin silver print, salt print, real photo postcard, Pictorialism, documentary photography, aerial photography, architectural photography
See additional Learning Lab collections for photographers Ashley Gilberston, Anne Noggle, and Friedrich von Martens for additional panoramas.
For additional material, search collections.si.edu.
Photographers included in this Learning Lab collection:
- Ashley Gilbertson
- Alfred W. Hoyt
- Walter J. Hussey
- Friedrich von Martens
- Anne Noggle
- Titian Ramsay Peale
- Ken Regan
- Art Sinsabaugh
- Robert Weingarten
Cameras use by:
- Frederick Mueller
- Louie Palu
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