As Miles Orvell writes in American Photography (2003): "Nature, in this 19th-Century context, was land to claim and defend in the name of the US government, it was a wild land to be exuberantly ...

Farrah Skeiky Largely forgotten today, Goodridge was one of the most important African American photographers of the 19th century, who, along with James P. Ball of Cincinnati and Augustus ...

In this case, what she wanted for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art (NMAA) was a photography collection that she knew might not even exist. It had to be strong in 19th-century ...

But by the time photography became popular in America in the mid-19th century and photographers and researchers armed with cameras began appearing in Amish communities, most Amish objected to ...

The collection documents drawings, graphic prints, paintings, and other works of art by late 19th century and early 20th century American artists. Photographs from the Photograph Study Collection may ...

The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

Photographs of the real people in the Hatfield and the McCoy families, whose famously violent 19th century feud has shaped ... most famous family conflict in American history.