Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

A photographic investigation of animal movements.

"12 photolithographs (heavily retouched), 3 chromolithographs. The photographs are by T.H. O'Sullivan and William Bell. These views, typical of the toned photolithographs published in Government reports, are striking scenes of the Western landscape, translated to this medium with a great deal of graphic richness. This title is also of prime importance because it lists every photographer for every one of the Government's surveys"--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 100.

The largest collection in print of Muybridge's famous high-speed action photos. 4789 photographs in more than 500 action-strip-sequences (at shutter speeds up to 1/6000th of a second) illustrate men, women, children—mostly undraped—performing such actions as walking, running, getting up, lying down, carrying objects, throwing, etc. "An unparalleled dictionary of action for all artists," AMERICAN ARTIST.

Photographs from two ethnographic surveys of Indian tribes in the southern Mexican states of Michoacan and Mexico conducted by Frederick Starr from 1897-1898 and in early 1899. Included are front and profile portraits of men and women, group portraits, and scenes of daily life illustrating traditional costume and activities; also, views of dwellings, granaries, towns, and landscapes. Aztec, Tlaxcalan, Otomi, Tarascan, Cuicatec, Mixtec, Zapotec, Juave, Triqui, and other tribes are represented.

In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

"Catalogue arranged by Alfred Stieglitz, cover designed by Eduard J. Steichen"--p. .

Includes "28 Heliotype illustrations from a number of methods, each designed to highlight various applications of the process ... This book was prepared in conjunction with Osgood's display at the Centennial in Philadelphia. All of the plates are from prior publications and Edwards wrote the description of the process. This is one of the most lavish presentations executed by a printing firm as a form of advertisement and only Osgood would have such funds available. This book is one of the most significant photomechanical display books in the United States in the nineteenth-century."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 55.

Describes the history and scenic wonders of California's Yosemite Valley.

A photographic collection exposing social conditions and daily life in the slums of late 19th century New York City. The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer and philosopher François Rabelais, who famously wrote in his Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l'autre vit").