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Photograph album collection, circa 1850-1964

About this Collection

Collection consists of thousands of photographs, some with descriptions and titled albums. California, Latin America, and the Middle East are well represented. Other subjects include railroad locomotives, photographs of British soldiers in the 1860s, South Africa, French actress Constant Coquelin, Australia, Egypt, Italy, Queen Victoria’s 1897 Diamond Jubilee, the Canadian Rockies, Texas oil fields, Mexican Revolution, Mathew Brady photographs of soldiers and civilians, Abraham Lincoln, China, France, photographs of architectural drawings, New Zealand, Fiji, Persia, Scotland, Burma, Athens, Philippines, St. Petersburg, Japan, Hawaii, Sakhalin snow crystals, Dutch East Indies, Hopi Indians, West Indies, Turkey, Vatican sculptures, World War I photographs from France and Belgium, U.S. Navy midshipmen in the 1860s, pictures of people involved in the French Commune of 1871, and photographs of London. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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