Guide to the Album File [ca. 1880-ca. 1980] (Bulk 1860-1920) PR-002

The Album File consists of published and unpublished volumes and scrapbooks acquired from various sources. Styles of albums vary from manufactured carte-de-visite albums to scrapbooks made by pasting images and clippings into accounting ledgers, and fine presentation albums with leather or velvet covers and ornate metal clasps. Albums were created to document families, places, or events, or to honor a person's career. Some volumes included in the file are published works documenting well know locations or persons. The materials comprising the albums are primarily photographic including tintypes, albumen prints, silver gelatin prints, platinum prints and cyanotypes, but also include clippings, engravings and etchings, drawings and other materials. Various photographers, printmakers, and artists are included in the collection.

Guide to the Mathew B. Brady Studio Portrait Photograph Collection 1856-1869 (Bulk 1861-1869) PR 085

Studio proofs of Imperial format and carte-de-visite format portraits taken by the Mathew B. Brady Studio in New York City.

Guide to the Charles Gilbert Hine Photograph Collection 1883-1908 PR 082

Platinum, cyanotype, and albumen prints of various Manhattan locations dating from 1883-1908. Views of streets, buildings, businesses, monuments, theaters, billboards, posters, celebrations, and scenes of everyday life are included. The collection also contains a three volume set of photograph albums which portrays Broadway from north to south and includes historical essays and clippings.

Guide to the Jennings Photograph Collection [1858]-1957 PR 135

Collection of albums, book manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographic prints, postcards, and negatives realting to the family and career of Arthur Bates Jennings, primarily compiled by his son Dr. Edward Allen Jennings.

Guide to the Lighthouse Photograph and Print Collection [1860]-1938 PR 038

Collection of photographs and prints depicting lighthouses, light vessels, and related equipment, primarily in the United States, from about 1860 through 1938. A few views of foreign lighthouses and equipment are included, as is an album of lithographs of architectural plans, sections, and elevations for lighthouses, light vessels, lenses, and other equipment.

Guide to The Alfred Olcott Hudson River Steamboats Collection Ca. 1871-1951 (Bulk 1905-1930) PR 098

This collection contains photographs, ship plans and blueprints, ephemera, and clippings relating to Hudson River steamboats from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Guide to the William F. Reeves Elevated Railroads Photograph Collection [1868]-1933(bulk dates 1878-1906) PR 154

Collection of photographs documenting the elevated railroads in New York City.

Guide to the Steinway & Sons Photograph and Print Collection 1858-1949 PR 166

The Steinway & Sons Photograph and Print Collection spans the period from 1858 to 1949 and contains images relating to the Steinway & Sons piano manufacturing company, founded and based in New York City.

Guide to the Civil War Stereographs 1861-1865 PR-065

The Civil War stereographs cover the entire period of the Civil War, from the first Battle of Bull Run through the surrender at Appomattox, and the triumphant parade of Union forces in Washington D.C. Most of the images were made in the Eastern Theatre, with scenes in Virginia by far in the majority.

Guide to the Civil War Photograph File 1861-1865, [1880-1889] PR 164

Photographs taken of and during the United States Civil War. Photographs show battle scenes, camps, soliders, officers, and war-related paraphernalia. Some photographs were taken during the war and published afterward.

Guide to the Imperial Portrait Photograph File [1856-1870] PR 210

The Imperial Portrait Photograph File consists of portraits of prominent men and women taken in the latter half of the nineteenth century by photographers Mathew B. Brady, Alexander Gardner, Charles Fredricks, Jeremiah Gurney, and by unidentified photographers.

Guide to the Elizabeth Ransom Photograph Collection 1891-1892 PR 237

The collection contains 61 glass negatives of buildings, parks, events and potraits in New York City and state. Also included are three albumen prints of the steamboat Harlem and an unidentified residence.

Guide to the Early American West Photograph Collection circa 1861-1900 PR 266

The Early American West Photograph Collection spans the period from circa 1861-1900 and primarily contains photographs of landscapes of the American west taken by F. Jay Haynes, William Henry Jackson, Andrew J. Russell, Isaiah West Taber and Carleton E. Watkins.