The American Annual of Photography was the longest-running and most significant photographic yearly published in the United States. It first appeared in 1887 and by the time of its demise in 1953 covered over half of the lifespan of the photographic medium. It remains today a rich resouce on three generations of photographers. Included were such early figures as Edward Bierstadt and Napoleon Satony, pictorialists Gertrude Kàsebier and Clarence H. White, and twentieth-century masters like Minor White.