Nelson Atkins

Signs

Photographs by Jim Dow

Contributions by Jim Dow and April M. Watson

Golden Prospects

Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush

by Jane L. Aspinwall

Contributions by Keith F. Davis

The Photographs of Ralston Crawford

by Keith F. Davis

Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art

by Leesa Fanning

Contributions by Ladan Akbarnia, Stephen Gilchrist, Eleanor Heartney, Mary Jane Jacob, Karen Kramer Russell and Elizabeth Milbourne

Eugene Richards

The Run-On of Time

by Lisa Hostetler and April M. Watson

Preface by Keith F. Davis

Alexander Gardner

The Western Photographs, 1867–1868

by Jane L. Aspinwall

Preface by Keith F. Davis

Other primary creator Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Timothy H. O'Sullivan

The King Survey Photographs

by Keith F. Davis and Jane L. Aspinwall

The Photographs of Homer Page

The Guggenheim Year: New York, 1949-50

by Keith F. Davis

The Origins of American Photography

From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

by Keith F. Davis

Contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall