By Michael Perlman

Percy Loomis Sperr, Eugene Armbruster, Jacob Riis, and among the most influential photographers… Brown Brothers! Founded in New York City in 1904 by brothers Charles H.S. Brown and Arthur R. Brown, the preeminent firm would be recognized for its production of several million stock photos and negatives, ranging from Forest Hills Gardens to The Kew-Forest School to the Queensboro Bridge undergoing development to New York at large. The collection continues with the American landscape and even worldwide. Sports and building interiors were also captured, and nearly all subjects. Today, Brown Brothers is acclaimed as America’s oldest stock photo syndicate, which brought news and commercial photography into the spotlight with their gelatin silver and albumen silver prints, and

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