Cities and Sites Photograph Collection, circa 1850-circa 1949

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Summary

Title:

Cities and Sites Photograph Collection

Dates:

circa 1850-circa 1949

Creators:

Getty Research Institute

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.

Extent:

557 Photographic Prints

Language:

Collection material is in English, Italian, Spanish; Castilian, and French, with some German

Preferred citation:

Cities and sites collection, circa 1850-circa 1949, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 96.R.34

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa96r34

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Arrangement

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.

Biographical / historical:

Collection assembled by the repository.

Acquisition information:

Collection assembled by repository in 1997 from photographs selected from the repository's Photo Study Collection.

Processing information:

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.

Physical location:

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Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Collotypes -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- 19th century
Salted paper prints -- 19th century
Carbon prints -- 19th century
Cyanotypes -- 19th century
Gelatin silver prints -- 20th century

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:: Beth Guynn
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-03-25 13:10:55 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:: Open for use by qualified researchers.
Terms of access:: Contact Library Rights and Reproductions.