By the way, she asked, did he know of a great collection of early American photography? One that included images of the Western landscape, everyday life, turn-of-the-century modernism, the gilded age.

A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, geographical and industrial change.

A sample of the L.J. West Collection of early photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Farrah Skeiky Largely forgotten today, Goodridge was one of the most important African American ...

Museum purchase made possible through the Franz H. and Luisita L. Denghausen Endowment. L. J. West Collection of Early African American Photography, Smithsonian American Art Museum. [TOP RIGHT] ...

when photographers documented American battlefields for the first time. Experimenting with ways to exhibit photographs, several inventors came up with a simple toy that made it possible for a ...

Stream and trees with mountains in background, Yosemite National Park, CA. Yosemite's Domes. Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, photographer, 1865. Library of Congress "Views of California," an ...

The New Art: American Photography ... the exhibition have never been published and offer fresh insights into early photography's role in the making of America. This, Rosenheim says, has proved ...