Museum purchase made possible through the Franz H. and Luisita L. Denghausen Endowment. L. J. West Collection of Early African American Photography, Smithsonian American Art Museum. [TOP RIGHT] ...

Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum Lobsterman painting / (photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son) Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum Diana (front view ...

Replaced with wet collodion negatives and positive paper prints that dominate photography next 25 years. August: American Eadweard Muybridge develops a fast shutter that aids him in making ...

In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have ...

Images that capture joy and pride — and speak to the true American spirit Dorothy Williams of St. Louis holding one of the few significant items she has left from her father, Isadore Banks ...

Let's imagine that you're hiking with friends to the summit of a nearby mountain or hill, and you'd like to capture the excursion on film. Today, you would just need carry along a small camera ...