Where do photographs in the Eastman House Collection come from?
Many of the best-known photographs in the Collection are from three sources: The Gabriel Cromer Collection of early French photography was acquired in 1939 by the Eastman Kodak Company, and was the core of the holdings of the museum when it opened ten years later. The Alden Scott Boyer Collection was added in 1951. This contained some important 19th Century British photographs, as well as a very large collection of daguerreotypes by the Boston studio of Southworth and Hawes. The last of the three large components was the 1977 addition of the Lewis Walton Sipley American Museum of Photography Collection. When the Philadelphia museum closed, the contents went to the 3M Company in Minnesota, who later gave it to Eastman House. This collection complemented the Eastman House holdings with advertising photography, many family albums and stereo views, and glass negatives and lantern slides. Throughout the 50 years of the museums existence, its curators have actively sought new items to bring
