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Selected American Albumen Prints
from the
Oakland Museum of California

Contributed by Drew Johnson, Curator of Photography, Oakland Museum of California

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1. Henry William Bradley (1813-1891) and William Herman Rulofson (1826-1878)
Bradley & Rulofson's Photograph Gallery, c. 1870
Albumen print
l9 X 16 1/4 in.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Dudley P. Bell
A72.105
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2. Thomas Houseworth (1828-1915) & Co., publishers
Launch of the Monarch, San Francisco, 1875
Mammoth plate albumen print
15 7/8 X 20 1/4 in,
The Oakland Museum Founders' Fund
A68.158
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3. Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), (Bradley & Rulofson, publishers)
Untitled (Lighthouse,), 1868
Mammoth plate albumen print
16 l/2 X 21 1/4 in.
The Oakland Museum Founders' Fund
A72.224
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4. Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
California Street Rail Road, April 10, 1878
Albumen print
7 l/l6 X 9 in.
Museum Purchase
H4522.10
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5. Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), (George D. Morse, publisher)
The Horse in Motion, 1878
Albumen print
5 l/4 X 8 in,
Museum collection
A98.0.3
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6. Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)
Alpine Lake, in the Sierra Nevada, California, c. 1871
Albumen print
8 X 10 13/16 in.
Timken Fund
A83.22
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7. Andrew J. Russell (1830-1902)
Supply Trains at End of Tracks, Last Siding, c. 1868, from The Great West
Illustrated In a Series of Views Across the Continent
Albumen print
9 X 12 in.
Gift of George E. Arnott
H75.107.1
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8. Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916)
New Almaden Quicksilver Mine, 1863
Mammoth plate albumen print
15 l/4 X 20 in.
Gift of Paul S. Taylor by exchange through Oakland Public Library
A66.12.2
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9. Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916)
Panorama from California and Powell, San Francisco, c. 1879
Albumen print
8 l/l6 X 12 1/8 in.
Museum Donors' Acquisition Fund
A66.79.5
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10. Charles Leander Weed (1828-1903), (Thomas Houseworth & Co. publishers)
Yo-Semite Valley from the Mariposa Trail, 1864
Mammoth plate albumen print
15 3/4 X 20 1/4 in.
Gift of the Oakland Museum Women's Board
A79.87.26
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11. George S. Lawrence (?-?) & Thomas Houseworth (1828-1915), publishers
Teams Passing Through the Snow, on the Road Leading Down into Lake Valley,
from Summit of Sierra Nevada, 1865
Albumen stereograph
3 l/4 X 6 3/4 in.
Museum Purchase
H70.26.4A
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