whole collection 737 items. | 732 photographs : prints on board mounts ; sheets 49 x 49 cm. | 5 volumes : illustrations ; 28 x 35 cm and smaller. | The Königliche Preussische Messbildanstalt (Royal Prussian Photogrammetric Institute) created architectural photographs as part of an early historic preservation program to document exteriors and interiors of cathedrals and churches, castles and palaces, town halls and half-timbered buildings, and other cultural heritage sites as they appeared around 1900. The buildings are primarily in Germany, with approximately 100 views in Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, France, Poland, and Russia. Institute director and architect Albrecht Meydenbauer developed the special camera and precise measurement system used to create these sharply focused, large-format, photogrammetric (measurement) images in order to provide for the study and restoration of landmark buildings.
1 drawing : graphite ; sheet 12 x 14 cm. | Drawing shows the gunboats Cincinnati, Essex, Carondolet and St. Louis on the Cumberland River, Nashville, Tennessee.
1 drawing : pen and ink. | Drawing shows a boundary marker post that reads "45 N.C. 1880." Beyond it, slightly uphill is a tent, "Ast. Sta.," and to the right Gedney points out the "Banks of the Little Mo. R." Gedney participated in the Montana Boundary Survey.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Myron T. Herrick (1854-1932), American ambassador to France from 1912-1914 and 1921-1929, and Jean Jules Jusserand (1855-1932), French author and diplomat and French ambassador to the United States during World War I. The men are in an automobile at the Lafayette Day celebration in front of City Hall, New York City on September 6, 1919. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Myron T. Herrick (1854-1932), American ambassador to France from 1912-1914 and 1921-1929, and Jean Jules Jusserand (1855-1932), French author and diplomat and French ambassador to the United States during World War I. The men are in an automobile at the Lafayette Day celebration in front of City Hall, New York City on September 6, 1919. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)