The majority of this 10,000-plus piece collection is comprised of the Janos Scholz Collection of 19th-century European photographs, which includes some fine early prints by Henry Talbot Fox, David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, Gustave Le Gray, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert MacPherson, and other pioneers of the art form. Other specialty areas include the Civil War and the exploration of the American West.

The Museum continues to annually acquire prints thanks to the generosity of Milly and Fritz Kaeser, and other donors.

Recent acquisitions include images by Eugène Atget, Eadweard Muybridge, Timothy O'Sullivan, Doris Ulmann, Frederick Sommer and Lauren Greenfield.

	Robert MacPherson British, 1811-1872 THE FALLS NEAR TERNI, 1858-1860 Albumen print, on mount The Janos Scholz Collection of Nineteenth-Century European Photography 1979.122.001
	Jean Nicolas Truchelut French, Active 1850's-1870's MODEL DRESSED AS A NUN, (ARTIST'S STUDY) c. 1865 mounted albumen print The Janos Scholz Collection of Nineteenth-Century European Photography 1994.030.129
	Walker Evans American, 1903 - 1971 ALABAMA TENANT FARMER (FLOYD BURROUGHS), 1936, printed 1950's silver gelatin print Gfit of Milly Kaeser in honor of Fritz Kaeser 2000.044
	Frederick Sommer American, 1905-1999 PARACELSUS, 1957 silver gelatin print on board Gift of Milly Kaeser in Honor of Fritz Kaeser 2001.002.000