Albert Levy, "Architectural & Decorative Books", 77 University place New York. Image by New York Public Library.

Albert Levy is a French photographer active in the 1870s-1890's in the United States and in 1880-1920 in Europe. He was a pioneer on architectural photography mainly in the United States.

His catalogue, with 2500 titles until 1887, can be found in the Gallica web project of Bibliothèque nationale de France. Many of his works can be check online in the Art Institute of Chicago (HALIC) or the Centre Canadien d'Architecture.

Wikipedia references Albert Levy as an important architectural photographer in the 1870's.

This web is dedicated to him, as I consider him not only a pioneer, but a unique photographer specially in the United States. Nobody like him recorded how the United States looked like in the 1870's, when some of the greatest buildings of the world were shaping the cities of the United States. Rich people (i.e. The Vanderbilt's) comissioned their homes to the best architects in what was meant to be the world's most relevant locations in the years to come. Albert Levy recorded this history like no one else (in the United States). 

He still deserves a great retropective and deeper studies. His work is yet to be discovered.