Photographs in the Visual Arts Collection

There a more than 50,000 photographs in the Visual Arts Collection at the Louisiana State Museum. 

The earliest photographs in the collection date to the early 1840s, and include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, vintage albumen prints, salt paper prints, hand-colored or enhanced photographs, tintypes, glass plate negatives, 16mm films, and contemporary digital inkjet prints. The Louisiana State Museum has major holdings of work by Samuel T. Blessing, George François Mugnier, Theodore Lilienthal, Robert W. Tebbs, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Joseph Woodson "Pops" Whitesell, Fonville Winans, and Achille Simon.