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George N. Barnard (American, 19th century)
Columbia from the Capitol, 1864, albumen print (photo: Phil)
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American photographs from before 1900 include a portrait by Susan Macdowell Eakins; Civil War photographs by George Barnard (2) and Alexander Gardner (2); photographs taken by William Bell (Perched Rock); Henry Hamilton Bennet (2 Dells of the Wisconsin subjects); Layton Alton Huffman (3); William Henry Jackson (4); Eadweard Muybridge (4 collotypes from Animal Locomotion); William Notman (4); Timothy O'Sullivan (28, including a complete set of works in a Wheeler Survey album, 1871-74); A.J. Russell (1); Charles Savage (9 views on and near the Columbia River); Lewis Wanamaker (20); and Carleton E. Watkins (4, including a mammoth-plate Yosemite view Glacier Point, plus a group of stereos of San Francisco, Yosemite, and gold-rush subjects inscribed by the artist). Edward Curtis's native American subjects (4) are supplemented by a complete set of his albums in Wesleyan's Olin Library.
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