Cities and sites collection. ca. 1850-ca. 1949.

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Cities and sites collection. ca. 1850-ca. 1949.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83459000

This is an open, growing collection of views of cities, sites, and monuments from around the world. Many views are by early photographers such as Robert Macpherson, James Anderson, Carlo Naya, and Giorgio Sommer, and a number of sites are represented by photographers from various time periods, showing the changes in the site over time. The collection contains examples of most types of nineteenth and early twentieth century photographic media including albumen, salt, carbon, collotype, cyanotype, and gelatin silver prints, as well as some handcolored prints.

516 photographic prints + ephemera.

Getty Research Institute

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SNAC Resource ID: 8301702

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Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914

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German-born photographer Giorgio Sommer opened his photographic studio in Naples in 1857, and published Naples and Surroundings that same year. While his views and genre scenes catered to the tourist trade, Sommer was also keenly interested in documenting archaeological subjects. He photographed Pompeii in 1863, and won a bronze medal for his photographs at the 1867 Exposition universelle, Paris. From the description of [Two views of Pompeii]. [ca. 1863] (Getty Research Institute). W...

Naya, Carlo

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Macpherson, Robert, 1815 or 1816-1872

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Robert Macpherson was a surgeon from Edinburgh, Scotland who moved to Italy to become a painter in the early 1840s; from 1851 onward, he became an innovator in architectural photography, producing mammoth plate photographs of Rome and Tivoli. He also produced art reproduction photographs of sculpture. From the description of Robert Macpherson Collection. [1856]-1863. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 191957051 ...

Anderson, James, 1813-1877

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James Anderson (born Isaac Atkinson in Blencarn, Cumberland, England) studied painting and sculpture before turning to photography in the 1840s. He is known for his architectural views of Rome and reproductions of art, exhibiting extensively and selling through Joseph Spithover. His son, Domenico took over the photography firm after James' death in 1877 in Rome....