In 1947 it became the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.

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In 1955 Mr Rosenblum gave nearly 4, 000 negatives and 6, 000 prints to America's first photographic museum, the George Eastman House in Rochester.

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The Magnum photo collective and the George Eastman House have been collaborating of late on a small model for such a project in Rochester, N.

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Even more impressive is Eastman House's staggering collection of 400, 000 prints and negatives, the largest collection in the world, including works by Eugne Atget, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, as well as much contemporary photography.

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In the kitchen of his widowed mother's boarding house Eastman tried various experiments, eventually developing a gelatin dry plate that could be processed later.

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