Creator:
Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983
Inclusive Dates:
1949- 1949
Abstract:
Silver gelatin photographs of African American New Yorkers
Type of Material:
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographs.
Subject:
New York (N.Y.)
Photographers.
African Americans
Music
New York State
Photography
African American musicians -- New York (State)
African American musicians -- Portraits.
African American photographers.
Creator:
Becker, Ronald G.
Inclusive Dates:
1836- 1960
Abstract:
More than one thousand photographs of 19th century sideshows and circuses, most by photographer Charles Eisenmann or his successor Frank Wendt, the remainder by unknown photographers. Most of the photographs depict the physical abnormalities of humans and animals featured at these shows. Subjects include P.T. Barnum, the P.T. Barnum Firm (Barnum and Bailey Circus), and Tom Thumb. Also included are Becker's research notes, an 1865-1868 run of The New York Clipper (forerunner of Billboard Magazine), and various print (broadsides and posters) and non-print circus memorabilia.
Type of Material:
Advertising fliers.
Albumen prints.
Broadsides (notices)
Cabinet photographs.
Cartes-de-visite.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Ephemera.
Gelatin silver prints.
Notes (documents)
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Posters.
Salted paper prints.
Subject:
New York clipper.
Photographers.
Photography
Abnormalities, Human -- Photographs.
Advertising, Circus.
Amusement parks -- Photographs.
Animals -- Abnormalities -- Photographs.
Broadsides -- 19th century.
Cabinet photographs.
Carte de visite photographs.
Circus -- Collectibles.
Circus animals -- Photographs.
Circus performers -- United States -- Photographs.
Deformities, Artificial -- Photographs.
Dwarfs -- Portraits.
Freak shows -- Photographs.
Giants -- Portraits.
Photography of the grotesque -- United States.
Portrait photography.
Posters -- 19th century.
Printed ephemera.
Conjoined twins -- Portraits.
Creator:
Emery, Walter H.
Inclusive Dates:
1901- 1926
Abstract:
Photographs (gelatin silver and cyanotype) with accompanying handwritten booklets, taken by photographer and painter Walter H. Emery
Type of Material:
Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographs.
Subject:
Mexico (N.Y.)
Photographers.
New York State
Photography
Landscape photographers.
Painters as photographers.
Photographers -- New York (State)
Photography -- 20th century.