Five-Minute Museum
Postcards from the dawn of photography
Glimpse 19th-century ghosts through the lenses of pioneering photo artists -- including Lewis Carroll
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Frank B. Bemis Fund, Barbara M. Marshall Fund, Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund, Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund, Otis Norcross Fund, Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, and William E. Nickerson Fund/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lewis Carroll (English, 1832–1898), "Xie Kitchin Asleep on Sofa," July 14, 1873.
Photograph, albumen print from wet collodion negative.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Charles Amos Cummings Fund/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Charles Marville (French, 1816–about 1879), "Au Siège de Sebastopol (Rue de la Monnaie from the Rue de Rivoli)," 1865–68.
Photograph, albumen print.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Michael and Gail Mazur/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (Scottish, 19th century), "James Linton. Newhaven Fisherman," 1840–50.
Photograph, salt print from paper negative.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Charles W. Millard III in honor of Clifford S. Ackley/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1882), "Cloudy Sky -- The Mediterranean with Mount Agde," 1856–59.
Photograph, albumen print from wet collodion glass plate negative.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Jessie H. Wilkinson—Jessie H. Wilkinson Fund/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jean Baptiste Frénet (French, 1814–1889), "Young Student in Uniform," 1855–60.
Photograph, salt print.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ernest Wadsorth Longfellow Fund/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Joseph Cundall (English, 1818–1895), "Two Military Musicians," 1856.
Photograph, lightly coated albumenized silver print.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gaspard Félix Tournachon Nadar (French, 1820–1910), "The Apostle Preacher Jean Journet," 1857.
Photograph, salt print.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Jessie H. Wilkinson—Jessie H. Wilkinson Fund/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lt. Colonel Henry Stuart Wortley (English, 1832–1890), "Beached by the Tide," about 1869.
Photograph, albumen print from a wet collodion negative.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. John H. and Ernistine A. Payne Fund/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Auguste Rosalie Bisson (French, 1826–1900), "Le Crevasse (Savoie)," 1861.
Photograph, albumen print from collodion negative.
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Promised gift of Charles W. Millard III/Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Édouard Denis Baldus (French, 1813–1889), "Group at the Château de La Faloise," 1856.
Photograph, salted paper print from a wet collodion on glass negative.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Abbott Lawrence Fund/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Louis Rémy Robert (French, 1811–1882), "Still Life of Sèvres Porcelain," 1865.
Photograph, albumenized carbon print.
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