Vintage photography
Old Photograph Collection
From hand-colored Yokohama photographs to Florence, Paris, New York, and nineteenth-century Egypt—browse vintage photography by city.
ApLink Design publishes high-resolution scans of vintage and historic photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other archives. Explore city galleries on the Japanese site, or purchase curated digital photo books on SUZURI.
Old Photographs of Egypt
Vol.1 — Pyramids and Temples
65 pages
A digital photo book of nineteenth-century Egypt by Antonio Beato and Francis Frith—the pyramids, temples, and Nile landscapes. Delivered as a SUZURI download.
¥1,800 incl. tax
Bakumatsu–Meiji Japan
Hand-colored Yokohama photographs by Kusakabe Kimbei and Kazumasa Ogawa—the colors of bakumatsu–Meiji streets and people.
Old Photographs of Florence
The Arno, the Duomo, and Medici memory—Florence in vintage photographs and fine-art sources from the Met collection.
Italian Landscapes
Nineteenth-century Italy in albumen prints—starting with Carlo Naya and Carlo Ponti in Venice, expanding to Sommer, Brogi, Alinari, and Macpherson across the peninsula.
Old Photographs of Paris
Tuileries allées, boulevard perspectives, and Marville’s stonework—Paris as Atget and Kertész photographed it.
Old Photographs of New York
Central Park allées and Herald Square—old New York in Met holdings, with Lewis Hine, Jacob Riis, and more street-life photographs coming soon.