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Two sepia photographic portraits on an album page: a seated older man with a cane and a woman in a bonnet, with handwritten c

Mrs. Brown

Frances Monteith, about 1845

Photograph of a manuscript page with two columns of Greek script on aged parchment, with dark stains and a torn edge.

[Folio 160, Verso]

Roger Fenton, 1856

Photographic print of an ornate ceiling with an oval central panel, cherubs, and scrollwork in the Salon Théâtre, Ministère d

Ministère d'État (Plafond du Salon Théâtre)

Édouard Baldus, about 1868

Album page with two faded early photographic prints: a seated figure group above and a draped table with tableware below.

Table Top with Tableware

William Henry Fox Talbot, possibly June 1840

Sepia photograph of ruined stone manor house with chimneys behind a dry stone wall and dirt road.

Remains of the Manor Lodge

Theophilus Smith, 1865

Two women in Japanese kimono, one standing and one kneeling on tatami before a painted screen with willow branches.

Costume, in Former Times, of a Daughter of the Higher Class

Kazumasa Ogawa, 1893-1895

Print of a woman in a crown beside a winged helmet, with a skull resting on a shield in the foreground.

Les Armoiries à tête de mort

Bisson Frères, 1861

Sepia photograph of the Nucleus House hotel on a San Francisco street, framed by 1880 trade advertisements on a printed page.

View of Nucleus House, South East Corner Third and Market Streets, D. Stern and Son, Proprietors - Also of the Brunsw…

I. W. Taber, 1880

Two horizontal bands of carved stone ornament with laurel wreaths, a crown, crossed swords and lightning bolts.

Tuileries (Façade sur la Cour)

Édouard Baldus, about 1868

Etching of a wooded landscape with tall trees and two small figures on a path, opening to a light sky.

Le Jardin d'Horace

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, plate 1855; print 1921

Print of a large mottled buttonwood tree beside a wooden trough, with fields, fence and hill in the background.

The Rice Buttonwood, Charlemont

Henry Brooks, 1890

White cyanotype silhouette of a fern frond with fine leaflets on a blue background, with a handwritten plant label below.

Athyrium filix femina

Anna Atkins, 1853

Monochrome print of a Highland man with a sword facing a bearded cloaked seer with a staff on rocky ground under trees.

Lochiel's Warning

T & R Annan, 1878

Sepia engraving of a wedding scene with a veiled bride, a groom in a fur-trimmed robe, and bearded men in an interior.

The Marriage

Pierre-Antoine Labouchère, 1869

Black-and-white advertisement for Thos. S. Dixon & Sons showing numbered grate designs around a central fireplace illustratio

[Advertisement for Thos. S. Dixon & Sons Low Down & Elevated Grates]

William Boell, negative about 1867; print later

Hand-colored print of yellow, white and pink chrysanthemums with spidery petals on green stems against a gray background.

Nami-chi-dori

Kazumasa Ogawa, 1896

Cyanotype print of a white fern frond with many leaflets on a deep blue background, labeled Lastraea oreopteris.

Lastrea oreopteris

Anna Atkins, 1853

Print of soldiers nailing Christ to a cross on the ground, with onlookers and an ornate arched border.

Christus wird ans kreuz Genagelt

Charles Von Bouell, 1861

Sepia print of Raphael's Miracle of Bolsena fresco showing robed clergy at an altar with kneeling worshippers beneath an arch

Raphaël, le Miracle de Bolsène (fresque du Vatican)

James Anderson, 1859

Engraved print of two standing women in robes beneath radiant light and clouds, mounted on a cream sheet.

Sainte Anne et la sainte Vierge

Bisson Frères, 1861

Sepia print of a woman at a spinning wheel conversing with a seated man in period dress by a fireplace.

The Ambassador

Mathew B. Brady, 1859

Sepia photograph of miners with helmets working in a rocky underground mine tunnel beside a large timber support.

Heave, Looking West, Blue Hills Mine

John Charles Burrow, 1893

Two Chinese porcelain plates: the upper with roosters, the lower with quails and chrysanthemums, photographed on a dark groun

[Two plates]

William Chaffers, 1871

Cancroïd de l'oreille droite

Arthur de Montmeja, 1871

Sepia oval print of the Virgin praying beside the sleeping infant Christ on a draped cloth, after Guido Reni.

Christ and the Virgin, by Guido Reni

Caldesi & Montecchi, 1858

Cyanotype of a Lygodium volubile fern frond with white silhouetted leaflets on a deep blue background.

Lygodium volubile, Brazil

Anna Atkins, 1853

Sepia photo of M. Meussdorffer's hat store, a corner building with arched windows and hat signage, on a decorative trade page

View of M. Meussdorffer's Celebrated Hat Store

I. W. Taber, 1880

Sepia print of a family group of adults and children gathered in a domestic interior with framed pictures on the wall.

Family of Velasquez

Nicolaas Henneman, 1847

Sepia medical photograph of a man's swollen scrotum and thighs, printed on a book page captioned Éléphantiasis des arabes.

Éléphantiasis des arabes

Arthur de Montmeja, negative about 1867; print 1882

Sepia photograph of a waterfall cascading over rocks, framed by tall pine trees and a forested hillside.

Kahchoomah, or Wild Cat Fall

Eadweard Muybridge, 1867