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PHOTOGRAPHY

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• Bassett Family Photographic Collection, 1880-1900 [HCLA]
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  Johnstown, Pennsylvania, family photographs from across the country.
  
  
• William C. Darrah Collection of Cartes-de-visite, 1860-1900 [HCLA]
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  62,608 cartes-de-visite photographs collected to document, through examination of actual imprinted images, the existence of as many nineteenth-century photographers as possible in the U.S. and the world.
  
  
• Heinz K. and Bridget A. Henisch Collection of the History of Photography, 1842-1995 [RB&M]
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  Includes virtually every type of photograph ever made: albumen prints, ambrotypes, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, daguerreotypes (going back to 1842), gelatin silver prints, ivorytypes, opalotypes, panotypes (on leather), prints on canvas and silk, salted paper prints, stereo cards, and tintypes.
  
  
• Fay S. Lincoln Photograph Collection [HCLA]
  
  
• Pennsylvania Bridges Collection, 1884-1915 [HCLA]
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  Photographs and lantern slides of railroad bridges in Pennsylvania, mostly in the Pittsburgh area, and photographs of technical drawings depicting structural details and complete designs of modern railroad bridges.
  
  
• Pennsylvania Cartes-de-visite Collection, circa 1860 [HCLA]
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  The bulk of the subjects are unidentified individuals of European ancestry photographed by central Pennsylvania photograph studios.
  
  
• Jay Ruby Collection on the Photographic Representation of Death, 1840-1993 [HCLA]
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  Photographs and memorabilia primarily collected by Temple University professor of anthropology to trace the history of how people use photographic images of loved ones to alleviate or hasten the grieving process.

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