Title & Author:

A century of photographs, 1846-1946 / selected from the collections of the Library of Congress ; compiled by Renata V. Shaw.

Publication:

Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1980.

Description:

viii, 211 pages ; 25 x 29 cm

Notes:
Consists of articles originally published in the Quarterly journal of the Library of Congress that explore the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division.
Includes bibliographical references.
The pioneers -- John Plumbe, Jr., and the first architectural photographs of the Nation's Capitol / Alan Fern and Milton Kaplan -- Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War / Hirst D. Milhollen -- Two photographs of Abraham Lincoln: a Calvin Jackson ambrotype and a Mathew B. Brady negative / Paul Vanderbilt -- A Preston Butler ambrotype of Lincoln / Alan Fern and Hirst D. Milhollen -- The Mathew B. Brady collection / Hirst D. Milhollen -- The Brady-Handy collection / Hirst D. Milhollen -- The case of the missing photographers: Haas and Peale / Milton Kaplan -- Creative photography -- Creative photography, 1869-1969 / Jerald C. Maddox -- Essay on a tintype / Jerald C. Maddox -- The Arnold Genthe collection / Paul Vanderbilt -- Documentary photography abroad -- Africa through the eye of a camera: the Carpenter collection / Milton Kaplan -- The Matson collection: a half century of photography in the Middle East / George S. Hobart -- The American Red Cross collection of photographs and negatives / Hirst D. Milhollen -- Photographs of Nazi origin / Paul Vanderbilt -- Documentary photography in the United States -- Erwin Evans Smith: cowboy photographer -- Alexander Graham Bell: a photograph album / Beverly W. Brannan with Patricia T. Thompson -- Discovering Theodor Horydczak's Washington / Beverly W. Brannan.

Summary:

Articles originally published in the Quarterly journal of the Library of Congress, prints and photos division.

ISBN:

0844402958
9780844402956

Subject:

Library of Congress Photograph collections.
Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.
Library of Congress Collections de photographies.
Library of Congress
Photograph collections
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Form/genre:

Government publications
Books.

Added entries:

Shaw, Renata V., compiler.
Milhollen, Hirst Dillon, 1906-1970, author.
Fern, Alan, 1930-2021, author.
Vanderbilt, Paul, author.
Maddox, Jerald C., author.
Kaplan, Milton, 1918-1988, author.
Hobart, George, author.
McKeen, Ona Lee, author.
Brannan, Beverly W., 1946- author.
Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.
Quarterly journal of the Library of Congress.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 1646
Call No.: IDM; ID:87-B11327
Status: Available