American Photographs: The First Century

In the nineteenth century, people from all walks of life embraced the new medium of photography with unparalleled enthusiasm. All of their aspirations and commonplace interests converge in the picture of nineteenth-century America vividly brought to life in American Photographs: The First Century. Seventy-nine colorplates are supplemented by over a hundred four-color images. More than two-thirds of these works are reproduced for the first time in this volume.