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  1. Henry Collen

    1797 – 1872

    Posted in 1856 - 60 Opium War #2.
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    Karl Baptiste von Szathmari

    1812 – 1887

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War.

  3. James Robertson

    1813 – 1888

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War.

    George Bernard

    1818 – 1902

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War.
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  5. Robert Christopher Tytler

    1818 – 1872

    Posted in 1839 - 42 Afghan-Anglo War #1, 1845 - 46 Anglo-Sikh War #1, 1857 Indian Rebellion, Afghanistan.

  6. George S. Cook

    1819 – 1902

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Virginia.
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  7. Roger Fenton

    1819 – 1869

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    De Montfort University site

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War, Fauxtography.
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    Charles J. Betts

    Born: 1820

    Posted in 1846 - 48 Mexican - American War.
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    Carol Popp de Szathmàri

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War.

    Ernest Edouard de Caranza

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War, Turkey.
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  11. Alexander Gardner

    1821 – 1882

    Websites
    Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War exhibition at Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Brule Sioux, Caddo, Delaware, Fauxtography, Heads of State, Kiowa, Mug Shots, Penateka Comanche, Rail.
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  12. Mathew Brady

    1822 – 1896

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War.
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  13. Richard Keene

    1825 – 1894

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.
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    William Bell

    1830 – 1910

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    Luminous Lint interview w descendent Barbara Wells

    Posted in 1846 - 48 Mexican - American War, 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Grand Canyon, Rail.
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    David Bachrach Jr

    Born: 1830

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War.

  16. Eadweard Muybridge

    1830 – 1904

    Posted in 1872 - 73 Modoc War, Biomechanics, Guatemala, Modoc, Motion, Paiute.
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    Robert M. Smith

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War.
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    William D. McPherson

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    article by Frank H. Goodyear, III at click! photography changes everything at the Smithsonian Photography Initiative

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Slaves.

  19. Robert Howlett

    1831 – 1858

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War, Shipping.
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  20. Felice Beato

    1833 – 1908

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    Beato's photo album of Japan at MIT Visualizing Cultures

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War, 1856 - 60 Opium War #2, 1857 Indian Rebellion, Istanbul, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Sudan.
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  21. Timothy O’Sullivan

    1840 – 1882

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Canyon de Chelly, El Morro, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Mohave, Navajo, Rail.
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    James Gibson

    Died: 1905

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War.

  23. John Burke

    Died: 1900

    Websites
    Interview with Matthew Butson of the Hulton Archive at NPR
    From Kashmir to Kabul: the photographs of John Burke and William Baker by Omar Khan

    Posted in 1848 - 49 Anglo-Sikh War #2, 1878 - 80 Afghan Anglo War #2, Afghanistan, India, India - Colonial.
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  24. William Herman Rau

    1855 – 1920

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    Caribbean Photo Archive at Flickr

    Posted in 1880 - 81 Boer War #1, 1898 Spanish American War, Egypt, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia.
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  25. Jimmy Hare

    1856 – 1946

    Posted in 1898 Spanish American War, 1904 - 05 Russo - Japanese War, 1910 Mexican Revolution, 1912 Balkan War, 1914 - 18 WWI.

    Fridtjof Nansen

    1861 – 1930

    Posted in Gulag.

  27. Burr McIntosh

    1862 – 1942

    Websites
    David S. Shields site

    Posted in 1898 Spanish American War, Philippines.
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  28. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

    1863 – 1944

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Color, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  29. Anders Beer Wilse

    1865 – 1949

    Posted in 1899 - 1902 Philippine–American War, Alaska, Fishing, Inuit, Klondike Gold Rush, Makah, Norway, Seattle, Shipping.
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    J.C. Hemment

    Born: 1870

    Websites
    Harvard

    Posted in 1898 Spanish American War, Columbian Exposition.

    James Burton

    Born: 1870

    Posted in 1898 Spanish American War.

  32. René Bull

    1872 – 1942

    Posted in 1880 - 81 Boer War #1, 1897 Greco-Turkish War.

  33. Lewis Hine

    1874 – 1940

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Child Labor, Drought, NYC 1930s, Pittsburgh, Steel.
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    Junius Wood

    Born: 1877

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, 1914 US occupation of Veracruz, 1917 Cuban Revolution, Chicago, Manchuria, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  35. Léon Gimpel

    1878 – 1948

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Paris.
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  36. Edward Steichen

    1879 – 1973

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Pacific Theater.
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    Dwight Elmendorf

    Born: 1880

    Websites
    Harvard Library

    Posted in 1898 Spanish American War, Palestine.

  38. Frank Hurley

    1885 – 1962

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Aboriginal Australians, New Guinea.
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  39. Armin T. Wegner

    1886 – 1978

    Posted in Armenian Genocide.

    William Rider-Rider

    Born: 1889

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.
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    Herbert Corey

    Born: 1890

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.

    Ira Gillette

    Born: 1890

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.
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    Joseph Timmons

    Born: 1890

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.

  44. Helen Johns Kirtland

    1890 – 1979

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.
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    John Warwick Brooke

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.

    Edwin Ralph Estep

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.

  47. Friedrich Wilhelm Zinn

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.
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  48. Basil Rathbone

    1892 – 1967

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Hollywood.
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  49. Roy Emerson Stryker

    1893 – 1975

    Websites
    Carnegie Library

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Pittsburgh.
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  50. M. Thérèse Bonney

    1894 – 1978

    Posted in Civilians, Russian-Finnish front.

  51. André Kertész

    1894 – 1985

    Websites
    The Getty

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Hungary, Paris.

  52. Dorothea Lange

    1895 – 1965

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, WWII Japanese American internment.
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  53. Tōyō Miyatake

    1896 – 1979

    Posted in WWII Japanese American internment.

  54. Josef Sudek

    1896 – 1976

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    Charles Sawyer article

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Prague.
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  55. Tina Modotti

    1896 – 1942

    Websites
    Riccardo Toffoletti's site

    Posted in 1936 - 39 Spanish Civil War.
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  56. Albert Renger-Patzsch

    1897 – 1966

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI.
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    Prentice Herman Polk

    1898 – 1984

    Websites
    University of Delaware exhibit

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Alabama, Tuskegee Airmen.
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  58. Alfred Eisenstaedt

    1898 – 1995

    Websites
    Digital Journalist

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Atomic Bombings, Heads of State, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.

    Mendel Grossman

    Born: 1900

    Posted in Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe.

  60. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    1900 – 1944

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  61. Dennis Gabor

    1900 – 1979

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Holography.

  62. Ansel Adams

    1902 – 1984

    Websites
    Center for Creative Photography

    Posted in Canyon de Chelly, Navajo, Paiute, Papago, Pueblo, WWII Japanese American internment, Yosemite.
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    Dmitri Kessel

    1902 – 1995

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, 1946 - 49 Greek Civil War, China, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling.

  64. Russell Lee

    1903 – 1986

    Websites
    U Texas

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, CB&Q Railroad, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Texas, WWII Japanese American internment.
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    Galina Sanko

    Born: 1904

    Posted in Russian-Finnish front.

    Ivan Shagin

    1904 – 1982

    Websites
    Alexander gallery

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Soviet Union / Russia.

  67. Bill Brandt

    1904 – 1983

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, London.
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  68. Margaret Bourke-White

    1904 – 1971

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, 1946 Great Calcutta Riot, Fauxtography, India, Nazi Concentration Camps, Pakistan, Steel.
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  69. Todd Webb

    1905 – 2000

    Posted in France, Oil, Pacific Theater.
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  70. Mary Marvin Breckinridge

    1905 – 2002

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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    John Gutmann

    1905 – 1998

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, San Fransisco.
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    Georgi Zelma

    1906 – 1984

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  73. Toni Frissel

    1907 – 1988

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Heads of State, Music, Tuskegee Airmen.
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  74. Lee Miller

    1907 – 1977

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Egypt, Nazi Concentration Camps.

  75. Carl Mydans

    1907 – 2004

    Websites
    Digital Journalist

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, 1939 - 45 WWII, Earthquakes, Japan, Philippines.
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    John Swope

    1908 – 1979

    Posted in Civilians, Hollywood, WWII - Aftermath.
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  77. Hans Ertl

    1908 – 2000

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  78. George Rodger

    1908 – 1995

    Posted in AFRICA, Nazi Concentration Camps.
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  79. Beaumont Newhall

    1908 – 1993

    Websites
    Interview with Joseph Trovato

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  80. Henri Cartier Bresson

    1908 – 2004

    Posted in 1927 Chinese Civil War, 1939 - 45 WWII, 1958 - 61 Great Leap Forward, Dutch East Indies.
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  81. Hansel Mieth

    1909 – 1998

    Websites
    Independent Lens doc

    Posted in Homeless, Labor Union, WWII Japanese American internment.

    Jack Richard

    1909 – 1992

    Websites
    Buffalo Bill Historical Center

    Posted in WWII Japanese American internment.

  83. Agustí Centelles

    1909 – 1985

    Posted in 1936 - 39 Spanish Civil War.

  84. Shigeru Tamura

    1909 – 1987

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, Japan.

  85. Humphrey Spender

    1910 – 2005

    Websites
    Mass Observation archive

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, England, Morocco.
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  86. Gerda Taro

    1910 – 1937

    Posted in 1936 - 39 Spanish Civil War.

    J.R. Eyerman

    Posted in Pacific Theater.

    Norman Hatch

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    Interview

    Posted in Pacific Theater.
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  89. William H Robinson

    Posted in Fiji, New Guinea, Pacific Theater, Solomon Islands.
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    Elmore "Bud" Martin

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  91. Hugo Jaeger

    Websites
    LIFE gallery

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  92. Ernst Hofmann

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  93. Bernhard Walter

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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    Charles Kerlee

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.

  95. Alfred T. Palmer

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Douglas Dam, Tennessee.
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  96. Eliot Elisofon

    1911 – 1973

    Websites
    Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art

    Posted in Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Canary Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Coal, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, New Jersey, Niger, Nigeria, North African Theater, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, soukous, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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    George Strock

    Born: 1911

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.

  98. Joe Rosenthall

    1911 – 2006

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Pacific Theater.

  99. David 'Chim' Seymour

    1911 – 1956

    Websites
    International Center of Photography

    Posted in 1936 - 39 Spanish Civil War, 1939 - 45 WWII, 1956 Suez War.
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  100. Karl Höcker

    1911 – 2000

    Websites
    New Yorker

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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