The Amon Carter Museum houses one of the most significant collections of American photography in the country. This summer, an exhibition of 100 of the museum’s iconic works fills the museum’s Special Exhibition Galleries.

The exhibition covers the history of photography, ranging from one of the earliest daguerreotypes to an ink-jet print made just last year, revealing a medium that has never ceased to evolve. Major photographic movements emerge in the exhibition, and the photographers included are among the most recognized names in American art.

Important events in American history over the past 165 years unfold as well. A bearded California Forty-Niner poses in a daguerreotypist’s studio around 1850. President Abraham Lincoln stands among his commanders on the fields of Antietam in 1862. The aged Apache chief Geronimo sits for a photographer in 1898, and a youthful John F. Kennedy and his wife ride atop the back seat of their open-air limousine while campaigning in Boston.

Admission is free.