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May 14, 2020 · 19th Century Photographic Processes and Formats. May 14, 2020 by wwade, posted in 19th Century Photographic Prints, Cabinet Card, Carte-de-visite, Civil War, Conservation, Gettysburg, Glass Plate Negatives, Lantern Slides, Lighthouses, Military, NOAA, Photographs, Preservation, Stereograph, U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard.
An online 19th-century photo library for picture editors, publishers, researchers, curators and authors, the website provides high-resolution scans of 19th-century photographs for use in books, magazines, newspapers, exhibitions, on television and on other websites.
Explore the early experiments and debates of photography in the 19th century at the National Gallery of Art. See how photographers mastered new processes, explored aesthetic issues, and depicted various subjects in monochrome.
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Jun 20, 2017 · See how people lived, worked, and played in the 1860s, from New England to the West. These early photographs capture the rural, urban, and industrial scenes of a turbulent era in US history.
Nineteenth-Century Photographs. Among the earliest works in the collection is a choice group of photographs by one of the inventors of the medium, the Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot, a remarkably talented individual with exceptionally broad interests.
October 2004. The daguerreotype, the first photographic process, was invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851) and spread rapidly around the world after its presentation to the public in Paris in 1839. Exposed in a camera obscura and developed in mercury vapors, each highly polished silvered copper plate is a unique photograph ...
Apr 12, 2022 · Explore the history and culture of 19th-century America through 50 photographs from various sources. See images of the Civil War, the Capitol dome, the first boardwalk, and more.