Thirty-two pages with photographs of Holy Land sites are paired with dried flower arrangements.

This photographic album of 45 visiting cards contains portraits of French and Mexican political and military figures—including Napoleon III and Benito Juárez—indigenous people, Mexican street vendors, and images of pre-Columbian statuary.

This album of 139 heavily annotated photographic prints contains 109 views of Canton, Hong Kong, Macao, and Shanghai; 11 images of a Chinese theater group; and 19 hand-colored photographs of Japan. An additional 21 loose photographs show sites in Rhone Valley and Canton, and a theater troop in Asia.

Photographs depict objects from industrialist and poet Auguste Génin's collection of archaeological, cultural, and natural objects found in Mexico, including pre-Columbian archaeological items from the Huichol, Tarahumara, and Zapotec civilizations.

Fifty photographic views of the city of Lucknow in India with a large plan of the city.

Over 560 19th- and early-20th-century photographs record ancient Greek and Roman architecture, focusing on Greece, Asia Minor, the Aegean Islands, Cyprus, south Italy, and Sicily. Most photographs depict Athens, particularly the Acropolis.

Taken by the Munich-born photographer Johannes Felbermeyer, more than 1100 prints and negatives record the repatriation of art after World War II, depicting those involved in the process and approximately 500 European paintings and sculptures.

Drawn from the 1997–98 J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition, selected prints, photographs, and books from Getty Research Institute special collections examine the role played by ruins as symbols of decay and emblems of continuity.

Nearly 70 photographs attributed to this British photographer record ancient monuments in Athens, Corinth, Sounion, Aegina, Constantinople, and Cairo.

Over 600 images record examples of the modern movement in architecture in Southern California, including the Case Study houses.

More than 4,500 images, including stereo views, photograph albums, illustrated books, and printed ephemera of the Middle East and North Africa taken by 164 photographers and photographic studios.

A 168-page album with photographs, sketches, and manuscript notes assembled by Louis Falconnet, an officer in the French army, while on his tour of duty in Mexico (1864–66) at the time of the French intervention.

Over 200 lantern slides taken by the Franciscan missionary Maynard in China document Chinese culture and missionary activity during the final days of the Qing dynasty, the Revolution of 1911, and the birth of the Chinese republic, notably in Shaanxi province.

Over 600 images by Mexican, European, American, and unknown photographers, spanning from the beginning of the French intervention to the Mexican Revolution and including albumen, collodion, and gelatin silver prints, cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, photo albums, and postcards.

Taken by an unknown photographer, the 102 images in this album include views of well-known sites in Beijing, including the Forbidden City, Hataman Gate, the Winter Palace, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, the Confucius Temple, a lama temple or lamasery, views of the city from the pavilions on Coal Hill (Jingshan), and from the Great Wall.

Five cartes-de-visite with portraits of Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlota; a group portrait of Maximilian's supporters in Querétaro; a composition photograph of portraits of Maximilian, his generals, and Carlota; and another of Benito Juárez and his Republican generals, including a young Porfirio Díaz.

A comprehensive visual resource for the study of tapestry. Over 5,000 study photographs reproduce examples from the late 15th to the late 18th century, including works from southern Netherlands, Flanders, Holland, and France.

Forty-one salt prints depict the siege of Rome and its defense by Giuseppe Garibaldi, key battles in the movement for national unification (Risorgimento), and ancient Roman monuments.

These 1,500 images document the diverse cultures of China and Southeast Asia, including city views and rural landscapes, trades, and commercial pursuits. Features works by 60 Chinese and European photographers, including Thomas Child, W.P. Floyd, Tung Hing, John Hing-Qua, Afong Lai, Milton Miller, William Saunders, and See Tay.

One hundred captioned stereographic views, including 31 exterior views of architecture and antiquities in Rome, Venice, Florence, and Naples.

An album of 154 photographs collected by a sailor during his tour of duty aboard the famous German gunboat Iltis with views of port cities and other naval vessels.

One hundred photographs of Algeria, publications, and albums, including C. Portier, Algérie Pittoresque (1870), A. Le Roux, Views of Algeria (1880), Jean Geiser, Souvenir d'Algérie (1880), and Neurdein Fréres, Vues d'Oran (1900–1914).

Forty-two cabinet card views taken by archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife, journalist Alice D. Le Plongeon, during their archaeological campaigns in the Yucatán Peninsula.

Nearly 70 photographs feature the home of art critic and historian Ugo Ojetti, focusing on the library and including portraits of Lionello Venturi, Ojetti's family, and other friends. Exterior views document gardens and statuary and include views of Florence and the surrounding countryside.