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  • Sebastopol with the Redan, Malakoff & Mamelon Summary Distant view of Sevastopolʹ and the principal Russian fortifications. Roger Fenton, 1855
  • Church at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, John Vachon, 1940
  • Robinson (American) falling into sea near Nice, Photo shows airplane of pilot and daredevil Hugh Armstrong Robinson making a crash landing on water near Nice, France, Bain News Service, 1912
  • Submarine mine explosion, unknown photographer, between 1908 and 1919
  • First Astronomical Photograph, Moon Daguerreotype. It was taken on March 26, 1840 from the rooftop observatory at New York University. John W. Draper.
  • Joseph Avery stranded on rocks in the Niagara River. Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths. The daguerreotype shows the third man, stranded on a log which had jammed between two rocks. He weathered the current for eighteen hours before succumbing to the river. The image is an early example of a news photograph. Platt D. Babbitt, 1853
  • School boys. Detroit Publishing Co., between 1900 and 1905
  • Rushing stream and Matterhorn, Alps. Detroit Publishing Co., between 1900 and 1910
  • John K. Hallowell and fifteen (15) other faces / S.W. Fallis, photographer, Chicago. Spirit photograph shows portrait of John K. Hallowell and super-imposed faces of fifteen deceased people including George Washington and Queen Victoria. S. W. Fallis, 1901
  • First Church, Salem, Mass. Detroit Publishing Co., between 1900 and 1906
  • Chinese woman and boy, William Henry Jackson, 1901.
  • Notre Dame, Paris, France. View from spire of roofs, statuary, and gable. Photograph showing the statuary decorating the gables, roofs, and spires of Notre Dame. Charles Marville, 1860
  • View of Niagara Falls, reversed view, Reversed view from prospect point on the American side, toward the Horseshoe, or Canadian falls, showing the Terrapin Tower in the background, and eight male figures standing, in the foreground. Gold-toned daguerreotype. Mathew B. Brady, between 1853 and 1860
  • Water tower, Ypsilanti, Mich., Detroit Publishing Co., ca. 1900
  • Office building, Detroit Publishing Co., between 1910 and 1920

Footnote2: Frank van der Stok

The Speculative Archive

August 6, 2021

1. The Other Side of the Valley of the Shadow of Death [unstaged]
2. We Were All Wounded by Wounded Knee
3. Aero Meets Hydro
4. Asparagus Becomes Mushroom
5. A Small Click for a Camera, a Giant Leap for Technology
6. From 18 Hours Before Death to a Split Second
7. Preparing for Nuclear War?
8. Ansel Adams Avant la Lettre
9. The Unfinished One-Dollar-Sitting
10. Gold-Toned View
11. Metropolis 1.0
12. A Church as a House as a Church
13. Only God Knows Why They Were Framed Against a White Backdrop
14. Long Before the Bechers
15. Charles Marville, the Early Atget

 

In the image gallery you can find the original titles as stated in the Library of Congress.