Roeming Collection . A large collection of 35 mm slides taken by George C. Roeming in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States, spans the years 1958 through 1984 . Sedgwick Collection . Approximately 200 prints, several glass plate negatives, and stereoscopic slides taken by Andrew Joseph Russell, official photographer for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1868-69. These record the construction of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
Many views also depict daily life and western landscapes.
Yosemite Valley from the Best General View. Carleton E. Watkins , ca. 1866. Western Photograph Collection . This collection consists of albumen prints and stereoscopic slides by the photographers of the four great western surveys. Also included in this collection are 54 mammoth size prints of Yosemite by Eadweard J. Muybridge and 76 prints by Carleton E. Watkins.