Early Photography Archive

Name: Early Photography Archive
Creator: Analog Photo Today
License: Open-access data is CC0; public-domain images are served via IIIF links without redistribution.

The Early Photography Archive presents public-domain photographs from the Art Institute of Chicago photography and media collection, with artist, process and dating context, drawn from the CC0 API and refreshed monthly. Every record links the museum page and adds technique family, origin region and era labels from our pipeline.

Records: 4,070
Last changed: 09/02/2026
Update schedule: 27 5 2 * * UTC
Coverage: 03/03/2026–09/02/2026
Method: Methodology

Photograph	Artist	Date	Technique	Origin	On view
Rebecca Salsbury Strand	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Gable and Apples	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Rebecca Salsbury Strand	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Rebecca Salsbury Strand	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Rebecca Salsbury Strand	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Rebecca Salsbury Strand	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Georgia O'Keeffe	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Lake George	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Music - A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. II	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Barn—Lake George	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Rebecca Salsbury Strand	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
Rebecca Salsbury Strand	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
Katharine Dudley	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
Georgia O'Keeffe	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
Georgia O'Keeffe	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
The Dancing Trees	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1922	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
Drilling For A Shot: Old-Fashioned Way Of Mining Coal	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1921	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
English Coal Miner	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1921	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
At the Trysting Place	Edward S. Curtis American, 1868–1952	1921	other	Americas	false
A Hopi Mother	Edward S. Curtis American, 1868–1952	1921	other	Americas	false
John Marin	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1921/22	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Hedwig Stieglitz	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1921/22	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Georgia O'Keeffe—Neck	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1921	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Boss in Power House	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1921	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Brakeman on Coal Train, Pennsylvania	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Breaker Boys in Pennsylvania Coal Mine	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Untitled (A Fairly Modern Coal Mine, Electrified, In East Pennsylvania)	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Eastern Pennsylvania Coal Miner	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Wife, Child, and Home of Pennsylvania Coal Miner	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Slavic Miner's Wife, New Dubois, Pennsylvania	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
A Miner's Daughter	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Childhood Days In A Coal District, Pennsylvania	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
An English Miner, Pennsylvania	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Young Miner, Pennsylvania	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Slavic Foreman in Pennsylvania Coal Mine	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
This Man, Scotch, Was Called The Poet Of The Mines, Eastern Pennsylvania Coal Mine	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
The Turbine, Power-House, New York City	Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Rainbow	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1920	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Georgia Engelhard	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1920	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
Waldo Frank	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1920	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1920/22	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Thimble	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1919	printing_dyeing photography	Americas	false
Dorothy True	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1919	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Tree Set 3	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	c. 1924	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
The Dying Chestnut	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1919	printing_dyeing metalwork photography	Americas	false
Georgia O'Keeffe	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1919/21	printing_dyeing photography	Americas	false
Georgia O'Keeffe	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1919/21	printing_dyeing	Americas	false
Georgia O'Keeffe	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1919/20	printing_dyeing photography	Americas	false
Cover for Untitled (83 World War I photographs)	Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) assembled by Major Edward J. Steichen, A.S.A. (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)	1919	other	—	false
Georgia O'Keeffe	Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946	1918	printing_dyeing	Americas	false