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A very impressive selection of photographs from 1839 to 1939. I would have given it 5 stars, if not for the choice of putting a naked woman next to a phallic object or a glazing man as a mirror photograph twice in the book. Very useful biographical section for each photographer at the end of the book.
Probably James Forten, Unknown, Daguerreotype, ca. 1840
Black and White Hands on a Prayer Book, attrib. to Albert Sands Soutworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, Daguerreotype button, ca. 1847
Cape Horn, Near Celilo by Carleton Watkins, Albumen print, 1867
Black Canyon, Arizona, Wheeler Survey by Timothy O'Sullivan, Albumen print, 1871
First Aerial Photo of New York, from Balloon, by James H. (Jimmy) Hare, Silver print, 1906
Society Ladies at Annual Horse Show, Newport, R. I. by Underwood and Underwood, Silver print, 1913
Pigeons in Flight by Francis Blake, Platinium print, ca. 1888
Man on Bicycle by Francis Blake, Platinium print, ca. 1888
The Wedding by Gertrude Kasebier, Platinum print, 1899
The Red Man by Gertrude Kasebier, Gum over platinum, 1901-1902
Summertime by Gertrude Kasebier, Platinum on tissue, sepia toned, ca. 1910
Pen Station, New York, by Dr. Drahomir Joseph Ruzicka, Silver print, 1919
Roebling Steel by Maurice Bratter, Palladium print, ca. 1930
Glass Abstraction by Grancel Fitz, Silver print, 1929
The Ice Box by Grancel Fitz, Silver print, ca. 1928
Dust Storm, Cimarron County by Arthur Rothstein, Silver print, 1936