George Eastman Museum

  • 1,010 photos
  • 27.3M views
  • Member since 2008
  • Last upload was
    April 2011
  • 🇺🇸
The George Eastman Museum is located in Rochester, New York, on the estate of George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography and motion picture film. Founded in 1947 as an independent nonprofit institution, it is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the oldest film archives. The museum holds unparalleled collections—encompassing several million objects—in the fields of photography, cinema, and photographic and cinematographic technology, and photographically illustrated books. The institution is also a longtime leader in film preservation and photographic conservation. There is always something new and different to engage, educate, or entertain you at the Eastman Museum:

When were these photos taken?

99
1
1972

 

Where were these photos taken?

<1% of these photos are geotagged.

These links will take you to Flickr.com. For now.

Photos of interest

These photos have had lots of views, comments, and favourites.

Recent uploads

The last upload was April 2011.

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos::

Two women

from George Eastman Museum

  • Cynthia Mitchel said:
    Mother and daughter? From their body language and similarity of face, I'd guess so. But it's hard to tell the difference in their ages from this photo.

Woman seated, holding full plate daguerreotype portrait of a man

from George Eastman Museum

  • A.Temmink-Smith said:
    good colour for its age.
  • Mitch Young said:
    A wonderful image!
  • lyndell23 said:
    I wonder - was she a widow - and the portrait she holds is of her husband?? You find this in old paintings - from the 1600s and 1700s in particular - family portraits including a member of the family who had recently died via a portrait being held by someone - or on a table ...
  • DeannaSt said:
    Widow. He died.
  • Cynthia Mitchel said:
    lyndell23 I wondered the same thing when I saw this image.

Georges Sand

from George Eastman Museum

  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    "Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and feminist." —Wikipedia

    "...people think it very natural and pardonable to trifle with what is most sacred when dealing with women: women do not count in the social or moral order. I solemnly vow—and this is the first glimmer of courage and ambition in my life!—that I shall raise woman from her abject position, both through my self and my writing, God will help me!...let female slavery also have its Spartacus. That shall I be, or perish in the attempt."

    —George Sand in a letter to Frederic Girerd, 1837  (Winegarten, 161)


    Nadar [photographer] was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist. —(more) Wikipedia

    "Felix Nadar" on Flickr Commons (Smithsonian)
  • Envious Things said:
    thank you for making this wow..brilliant
  • Lauren said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Heroines, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    I made a purse from this image:
  • K Makhloufi said:
    I like it!

No comments. Yet.

Do you know anything about what’s in these photos?

🇺🇸 Other members from USA