Antique photos find a new home

One of the most famous collections of early photographs has a new home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The Met said this week that it had acquired more than 8,500 photographs in the Gilman Paper Co. Collection, put together over two decades by Howard Gilman and Pierre Apraxine. The collection focuses on the origins of photography, covering the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th.

Among the notable works in the collection, which emphasizes British, American and French photos, as well as travel shots, are images from Lewis Carroll, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, a photograph marking the execution of those connected to Lincoln’s assassination and pictures by such notable photographers as Man Ray and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Works from the collection will go on display at the museum on April 17.