Fred Brockett - Dianella, c.1910
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Glass negative of a tornado, 1913
Photo by Harris & Ewing
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Ruth Hollick (1883-1977) ~ Miss Wynn Jones, ca. 1910 - ca. 1930. Glass negative | src SLV
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Catacombs, Paris, Nadar, April 1862
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View of a canal on Belle Isle. Handwritten on sleeve: "Canal at Belle Isle, shadows. November, 1907. Mears."
Heath Collection
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
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Group near depot, Las Vegas, New Mexico (?)
Photographer: Rex Studio
Negative Number: 070774
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Actress & Union Spy Pauline Cushman by the Mathew Brady Studio, 1864 (National Portrait Gallery)
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Cyanotype - One Kindred Spirit
Glass-Plate Negative - James Smith circa 1920
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Shantou (Swatow), Guangdong (Kwangtung) province, China: a woman with prominent coiffure. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
via Wellcome Collection
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Another clever use of composition from the unknown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania photographer who created this glass negative photo series in the early 20th century.
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Half moon, 02 June 1914
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E. J. Bellocq | Storyville Portrait, New Orleans
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Henry Burrell · Platypus · 1910s
Henry James Burrell (1873-1945) ~ Young Platypus, ca. 1914. Glass negative | src Australian museum
[...] most famous for being the first person to successfully keep platypuses in captivity. To do this he invented the ‘platypusary’, a storage tank which enabled him to both study and exhibit live platypuses. The platypusary was used [...]
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Near the Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau, Eugène Cuvelier, 1860s
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Portrait of women in front of wood frame home in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Recorded in glass negative ledger: "M/Localities-Grosse Pointe."
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
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