<p>This is a selection of works from the Photographic History Collection by Donald Mennie.<br></p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: photogravure, China, architecture, sacred buildings, tombs, temple, palace, gates, memorials, farmers, wagons, commerce, tourism, gate, wall, sculpture, pack animals</p>

<p>This is a sampling of cameras from the Photographic History Collection at the National Museum of American History.  <br></p> <p>For specific cameras and additional collections, search collections.si.edu or contact the division.<br></p> <p>The Photographic History Collection holds a wide range of cameras, plate holders, tripods, illumination, sensitized materials (papers, plates, film, etc), printing and processing equipment, chemicals, studio furniture, and other accessories and apparatus related to picture making.<br></p> <p>Types of cameras in the Photographic History Collection include:<br></p> <ul><li>Aerial</li><li>Banquet</li><li>Box</li><li>Cell phone</li><li>Daguerreotype</li><li>Digital</li><li>Disposable</li><li>Folding</li><li>Field</li><li>Film (35mm, 4X5, 8X10)</li><li>Gun</li><li>Hidden </li><li>Instant/ Instamatic</li><li>Magic Lantern</li><li>Movie</li><li>Early Motion Picture (amateur, professional, commercial)</li><li>Multi-lens</li><li>Patent Model</li><li>Pinhole</li><li>Polaroid</li><li>Press</li><li>Prototype</li><li>School Picture</li><li>Stereo</li><li>Spy and subminiature (including toy)</li><li>Tintype</li><li>Tri-color</li><li>Twin-Lens Reflex</li><li>Underwater</li><li>Video</li><li>View </li><li>Wet collodion</li></ul> <p style="margin-left:0px;">Cameras, apparatus, and/or studio furniture owned by the followed are included in the Photographic History Collection (excluding patent model associations):<br></p> <ul><li>Thomas Armat</li><li>J. Ross Baughman</li><li>Mathew Brady</li><li>Chester Carlson</li><li>William Henry Draper</li><li>William "Doc" Edgerton</li><li>Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.</li><li>Tom Howard</li><li>Frederick Eugene Ives</li><li>Charles Frederick Jenkins</li><li>Edwin Land</li><li>Eugene Lauste</li><li>Morrison Studio</li><li>Samuel F. B. Morse</li><li>Frederick Mueller</li><li>Nickolas Muray</li><li>Eadweard Muybridge</li><li>Carl Mydans</li><li>Louie Palu</li><li>Addison Scurlock/ Scurlock Studio</li><li>William Henry Fox Talbot</li><li>Victor Keppler</li><li>Edward Weston</li></ul> <p></p> <p></p>

<p>This is an assortment of photographs from the Photographic History Collection related to television. This collection has three groups of photographs. <br></p> <p></p> <ol><li><strong>Photographs of television content</strong>. These are photographs of images on television screens.</li><li><strong>Photographs of televisions<em>. </em></strong>These are photographs of televisions and people watching television.</li><li><strong>Photographs of television production.</strong> These are photographs depicting the making of television content and in television studios.</li></ol> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Keywords</strong>:  TV, television, tv shows, watching tv, television furniture, making tv, television repair, television and news events, breaking news, television camera, television personalities, late night television, comedy, sport TV, sports television, ABC, NBC, CBS, cable television, Christmas trees, living room</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Keywords (people)</strong>: Richard Nixon, Johnny Carson, Joe Garagiola, George Wallace, Elliott Erwitt, J. Ross Baughman, Ken Regan, Roone Arledge, AV Weston, President William Clinton</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Keywords (photography)</strong>: snapshot, press print, documentary photography, fine art photography, photojournalism</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p>

<p>This is an assortment of photographs from the Photographic History Collection of people reading, books, and libraries. <br></p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: read, reading, books, letters, magazines, journals, newspapers, library, libraries, bookshop, book store, librarian</p> <p></p>

<p>This is a selection of photographs from the Photographic History Collection that depict art related activities, art galleries, displays, artists at work, and photographs of paintings and sculptures. This Learning Lab collection is divided into four categories: </p> <ul><li>artists at work</li><li>portraits of artists</li><li>art on display</li><li>photographs of art objects</li></ul> <p>There are separate Learning Lab collections for <em><strong>Portraits of Photographers</strong></em> and <em><strong>Photographers at Work</strong></em>.</p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords<em>:</em></p> <p>See also the Learning Lab collection <em><strong>Museums</strong></em> for photographs of exhibitions and installations in museums, museum buildings, museum education, and other museum activities. For Smithsonian related activities, search collections.si.edu and sia.si.edu.</p>

<p>This is a selection of photographs from the Photographic History Collection of people who served in or adjacent to the military during the American Civil War. Most of the portraits are those who served in the military and the government. This this selection includes an African American washerwoman, Mary Todd Lincoln, photographer Mathew Brady, John Wilkes Booth, and two caricature portraits to represent political ideas.<br></p> <p>In the Learning Lab, see also the <em>Seville Collection</em> in which individual soldiers have biographical information and <em>Civil War Albums</em> to see the Gardner's Sketchbook of the War.</p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: portrait, solider, washerwoman, carte-de-visite, CDV, flag, uniform, soldier, tintype, ambrotype, military, general, colonel, studio portrait, hand-colored, hand-coloring, nurse, African American women, Union Army, president, First Lady, political ideology, wartime</p>

<p>This is a selection of mutoscope title cards and apparatus. <br></p> <p>The Mutoscope Collection in the National Museum of American History’s Photographic History Collection is among the most significant of its kind in any museum. Composed of 3 cameras, 13 viewers, 59 movie reels, and 53 title cards (movie posters), the collection documents the early years of the most successful and influential motion picture company of the industry’s formative period. It also showcases a unique style of movie exhibition that outlasted its early competitors, existing well into the 20th century.</p> <p>Keywords: Mutoscope, early motion picture, moving picture, movie </p> <p>Written by Ryan Lintelman for a finding aid for the Photographic History Collection:</p> <p> The American Mutoscope Company was founded in 1895 by a group of four men, Elias Koopman, Herman Casler, Henry Marvin, and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, to manufacture a motion picture viewer called the mutoscope, and to produce films for exhibition. </p> <p>Dickson had recently left the employ of Thomas Edison, for whom he had solved the problem of “doing for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear” by inventing the modern motion picture. Casler and Dickson worked together to perfect the mutoscope, which exhibited films transferred to a series of cards mounted in the style of a flip book on a metal core, and avoided Edison’s patents with this slightly different style of exhibition. </p> <p>The company’s headquarters in New York City featured a rooftop studio on a turntable to ensure favorable illumination, and the short subjects made here found such success that by 1897, the Edison company’s dominance of the industry was in danger. American Mutoscope became American Mutoscope & Biograph in 1899, when the namesake projector, invented by Casler, became the most used in the industry.</p> <p>Mutoscope viewers were found in many amusement areas and arcades until at least the 1960s. Their inexpensiveness and short, often comical or sensational subjects allowed the machines a far longer life than the competing Edison Kinetoscope. The company also found success in its production and projection of motion pictures, though its activity was mired by patent litigation involving Thomas Edison through the 1910s. </p> <p>The notable director D. W. Griffith was first hired as an actor, working with pioneering cinematographer G. W. “Billy” Bitzer, before moving behind the camera at Biograph, and making 450 films for the company. Griffith and Bitzer invented cinematographic techniques like the fade-out and iris shot, made the first film in Hollywood, and launched the careers of early stars Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish. The company, simply renamed the Biograph Company in 1909, went out of business in 1928, after losing Griffith and facing a changing movie industry.  </p> <p>The Museum’s collection was acquired in the years between 1926 and the mid-1970s. The original mutograph camera and two later models of the camera were given to the Smithsonian in 1926 by the International Mutoscope Reel Company, which inherited Biograph’s mutoscope works and continued making the viewers and reels through the 1940s. </p> <p>The viewers, reels, and posters in the collection were acquired for exhibition in the National Museum of American History, and were later accessioned as objects in the Photographic History Collection. Many of the mutoscope reels in the collection date to the period from 1896-1905, and show early motion picture subjects, some of which were thought to be lost films before their examination in 2008.</p> <p><br></p>

<p>This is an assortment of photographs depicting photographers at work, studios and businesses, advertising for photography business and services, business cards and press passes, and equipment on location.</p> <p>See also <em>People with Cameras</em> and <em>Portraits of Photographers</em>.</p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords (subject): photographs and cameras, photographers on site, photography studio, photography gallery, photographic gallery, photographic studio, photography business, working photographer, advertisement, daguerreotypist, ambrotypist, tintypist, ferrotype gallery, tintype gallery, floating gallery, certificate, awards, patch, insignia</p> <p>Keyword (photography): gelatin silver print, stereoview, stereograph, real photo postcard, ephemera, press print, cabinet card, carte-de-visite, combination print, combination photography, broadside</p> <p><br></p>

<p>This is an assortment of photographs from the Photographic History Collection related to firefighting and firefighters.<br></p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: fire, firefighter, firefighting, fireman, firemen, rescue, first responder, parade, helmet, safety gear,  public safety, hero, fire house, fire wagon, fire truck, September 11, 2001, 9/11, Ground Zero, World Trade Center, tragedy, house fire, fire investigation</p> <p>Keywords (photography): press print, daguerreotype, ambrotype, real photo postcard, chromogenic print, color photography</p>

<p>This is an assortment of photographs from the Photographic History Collection at the National Museum of American History related to windows. This collection was created in response to the COVID-19 quarantine project known as window serenade.<br></p> <p>The photographs in this collection were made by snapshot, amateur, commercial, fine art, and professional photographers. They used windows for a range of artistic, cultural, metaphorical, and other purposes. The photographic processes and formats are as diverse as their uses for display, communication, documentation, entertainment, and expression.</p> <p>Photographers included in this collection are, Paul Anderson, Max Baur, Paul Caponigro, Mac Cosgrove-Davies, Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr,  Elliot Erwitt, Elizabeth Bliss Howe, Gertrude Kasebier, Frederick Langenheim and Alexander Beckers, Fred Maroon, Joel Meyerowitz, Chuck Mintz, Carl Mydans, Titian Ramsay Peale, Charles Ruston, Kosti Ruohomaa, Burk Uzzle, Diana Walker, Edward Weston, and Joseph Zalensky.</p> <p>This Learning Lab collection focuses primarily on domestic spaces and photographer's studios rather than storefront windows or notably public spaces. </p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: window, windows, through my window, from my window, sunlit, window light, view from window, out window, looking out of window, window serenade, view to exterior</p> <p>Historical notes:</p> <p>The Langenheim and Beckers photograph from their studio window may be the first paper photograph of New York City. </p> <p>Titian Ramsay Peale made experimental photographs and views from his Washington, DC home in the 1850s.</p> <p>Charles Rushton photographed photographers living and working in the American southwest in the 1980s. For more than the few seen in this collection, see the collection <em>Charles Rushton</em> in the Learning Lab.</p> <p><br></p>

<p>This is an assortment of photographs related to stage performances in theaters,  acting, plays, and musical theater, and revues from the Photographic History Collection. The date range for these photographs is mostly, but not exclusively, 1910s-1950s.<br></p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: theater, theatre, stage, play, plays, actor, actress, orchestra, set design, musicals, musical revues, costume design, lighting design, performance, spoken word, Broadway, Jewish theatre, John F. Kennedy Center</p>

<p>This an assortment of photograph of Marilyn Monroe that are in the Photographic History Collection.<br></p> <p>Photographers include, Richard Avedon, Andre DeDienes, Milton H. Greene and Douglas Kirkland.</p> <p>Images may be copyrighted.</p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: celebrity photography, fashion photography, Arthur Miller, fine art photography, digital photography</p>