Gilman Paper Company collection

The Gilman Paper Company collection is an archive of original photographic prints and negatives, and it was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A bound folio of the collection was published as Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company [1] by The White Oak Press, 1985.

The images were curated by Pierre Apraxine and the plates were made by master printer and photographer Richard Benson.

The curated images in Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company consist of iconic images from the era of daguerreotypes to 1960's images by Robert Frank and Diane Arbus.

[citation needed] Richard Benson's print work for the publication is described as "the magisterial Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company (1985), are the apex of black-and-white, offset lithography presswork.