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Title: Cities and Sites Photograph Collection
Date (inclusive): circa 1850-circa 1949
Number: 96.R.34
Creator/Collector:
Getty Research
Institute
Physical Description:
557 Photographic Prints
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: An assembled collection of photographs
of cities, sites, and monuments from around the world. Many views are by early photographers
such as Robert Macpherson, James Anderson, Carlo Naya, and Giorgio Sommer.
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Language: Collection material is in English, Italian, Spanish; Castilian, and French,
with some German
Collection assembled by the repository.
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Cities and sites collection, circa 1850-circa 1949, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles,
Accession no. 96.R.34
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa96r34
Collection assembled by repository in 1997 from photographs selected from the repository's
Photo Study Collection.
The collection was processed by Beth Ann Guynn in 1997 and further processed by Holly
Larson in 2010. The finding aid encoded by Holly Larson from Guynn's inventory, with grant
funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Guynn updated the
finding aid in 2021.
Scope and Content of Collection
This is an assembled collection of over 500 photographic views of cities, sites, and
monuments from around the world. Many views are by early photographers such as Robert
Macpherson, James Anderson, Carlo Naya, and Giorgio Sommer. And a number of sites are
represented by photographers from various time periods, showing the changes in the site over
time. The collection contains examples of most types of 19th- and early 20th-century
photographic media including albumen, salt, carbon, collotype, cyanotype, and gelatin silver
prints, as well as some hand-colored prints.
The collection is organized in six series:
Series I. Africa;
Series II. Asia;
Series III. Europe;
Series IV. Middle East;
Series V. North and South
America;
Series VI. Unidentified
Sites.
Chile -- Description and travel
Egypt -- Description and travel
France -- Description and travel
Austria -- Description and travel
Belgium -- Description and travel
Netherlands -- Description and travel
Algeria -- Description and travel
Scotland -- Description and travel
Portugal -- Description and travel
Turkey -- Description and travel
Switzerland -- Description and travel
Spain -- Description and travel
Thailand -- Description and travel
Czechoslovakia -- Description and travel
England -- Description and travel
Java (Indonesia) -- Description and travel
Malta -- Description and travel
Yugoslavia -- Description and travel
Mexico -- Description and travel
Italy -- Description and travel
Israel -- Description and travel
Indonesia -- Description and travel
India -- Description and travel
Greece -- Description and travel
Great Britain -- Description and travel
Germany -- Description and travel
Collotypes -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- 19th century
Salted paper prints -- 19th century
Carbon prints -- 19th century
Cyanotypes -- 19th century
Gelatin silver prints -- 20th century
Garzón
M. Frankenstein & Co.
Franck,
1816-1906
Fiorani, F.
Dovizielli, Pietro
Detroit Publishing
Co
Cuccioni, Tommaso,
-1864
Torres
Ninci, Giuseppe
Nessi, Antonio
Molins, P.
Molina, T.
Marion, Auguste,
approximately 1835-1917
Mang, Michele
Lühr, Eduard
Incorpora, Giuseppe
Altobelli, Gioacchino
Bardi, Luigi, active 19th
century
Alguacil,
Casiano, 1832-1914
Almela, Ramón
Christmann, S.P.
Brusa, G.B.
Konstantinou, Dimitris,
active 1858-1875
Unterveger, Giovanni
Battista, 1833-1912
Tunny, James G.
(James Good), 1820-1887
Bruno, Giuseppe,
1926-1999
Zedler &
Vogel
Fotografia dell'Emlia
Braun, Adolphe,
1812-1877
Bisson,
Auguste-Rosalie, 1826-1900
Bödeker, Franz Heinrich
Wilson, G. W.
(George Washington), 1823-1893
Schmidt,
Ferdinand, 1840-1909
Eder, Caspar
Schaller,
L.
Wells, F.R.
Frith, Francis
J. Laurent y
Cia (Madrid, Spain)
Noack, Alfredo,
1833-1896
Hauser y Menet
(Firm : Spain)
Sommer, Giorgio,
1834-1914
Macpherson, Robert, 1815 or
1816-1872
Naya,
Carlo
Anderson,
James, 1813-1877
Neurdein
frères
Löwy, J.
(Joseph), 1835-1902
Fratelli Alinari
Getty Research
Institute
Laurent y Minier,
Jean, 1816-1886
Brogi, Giacomo,
1822-1881
Hammerschmidt, W.,
-1869
Photo Zürich
Fotografia Cuccioni
Sommer & Behles
Rocchini, Francisco
Reale Fotografia
Giacomelli
Philpot, J. B.
(John Brampton), 1812-1878
Stengel & Co
Libreria
Spithöver