Gelatin silver prints
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to photographic prints having gelatin as the binder, holding silver as the final image material; always black-and-white, though they may be toned to a monochrome hue.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
William Palmer Kodak views of the Pribylov Islands, Bering Sea, Alaska
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 1065
Overview:
194 photographs taken by William Palmer--with a Kodak Brownie Number 2--for the United States National Museum depicting the Pribilof Islands (formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands), a group of volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, 1890 June-August. The collection's title card suggests that Palmer organized the photographs into 5 categories: scenery, seals, sealing, birds, and miscellaneous. Images are chiefly of seals and sea lions, but also include...
Dates:
1890 June-August
Joseph Elam Stimson Photographs
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 1072
Overview:
Photographs chiefly of Wyoming and Utah as well as California, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Yellowstone National Park, 1889-1921, and related primarily to the Union Pacific Railroad as well as natural and agricultural sites along its routes.
Dates:
1889-1921