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Funding. NEH. Final report, 1987

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 6

Scope and Content Note

From the Sub-Series:

This exhibition, organized through a collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, explored the Victorian fasination with photography, from its earliest invention in 1839 through the end of the nineteenth century. Some 240 extraordinary 19th-century photographs by such photographers as William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, John Murray, Oscar G. Rejlander, and Julia Margaret Cameron were brought together by Michael E. Hoffman, Adjunct Curator, Alfred Stieglitz Center, and Martha Chahroudi, Associate Curator of Photographs. Following the show in Philadelphia, the exhibition then traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Pew Memorial Trust and the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities each supported "The Golden Age of British Photography" through generous grants.

Dates

  • 1987

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 62.5 linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives Repository

Contact:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
PO Box 7646
Philadelphia PA 19101-7646 United States