The collection of over 600,000 images has given support for research, publications, and exhibits. The photographic collection traces the historical, technological, and artist developments of the medium. The collection includes daguerreotypes, salt prints, ambrotypes, tintypes, stereographs, cyanotypes, cabinet cards, gelatin-silver prints, and recently color-prints. The Museum also has an extensive collection of approximately 20,000 post cards depicting a wide variety of maritime related activities including life saving, harbors and towns, ships portraits and construction, naval ships and deck scenes.
A partial listing of the scope and significance of the collections includes:
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Edwin Levick Collection |
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A. Aubrey Bodine Collection |
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HRPE Collection |
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David Barry |
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Percy Loomis Sperr |
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Samuel Bourne |
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Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins |
For more information, e-mail collections@MarinersMuseum.org.