Painting showing the use of a camera obscura as an aid for drawing in the eighteenth century
Paul Sandby, 1731-1809, BritishView Full Item in Yale Center for British ArtInscribed in graphite, bottom center: "Lady Scott, Lady Elliott"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "Lady Elliott"; in graphite, verso, lower right: "L[...] Francis Doylan Not signed, not date…
Example of the camera obscura effect
Abelardo MorellView Full Item in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Photograph
Text with images created through the first photographic process, heliographie or photogravure, by Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor, 1858
View Full Item in Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute LibraryForms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction In: Histoire du duc de Wellington / par A. Brialmont. Paris : Tardieu & Tanera ; Bruxelles : E. Guyot et Sta…
Image created using the calotype process, the first photographic process to create images on paper, from 1842
William Henry Fox Talbot, Calvert Richard JonesView Full Item in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Photograph
Calotype print of the Orlean Cathedral by William Henry Fox Talbot, inventor of the process
William Henry Fox TalbotView Full Item in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Photograph
A negative created on wax paper to be printed as a positive on paper or card from 1843
David Octavius Hill, Robert AdamsonView Full Item in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Photograph
Photograph of the Salt Lake Tabernacle under construction created using the collodion process
Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909View Full Item in Brigham Young University - Harold B. Lee LibraryTwo men in front of the Salt Lake Tabernacle with the crossbeams exposed. Written on the back-8314 Tabernacle in Construction Salt Lake City Utah. Back label- C.R. Savage, Art Bazar...Medals...1893.
Wildlife photograph taken in 1896 using a camera and flash triggered by the approaching deer
Hughes, CharlesView Full Item in California State University, ChicoPhotograph shows Flashlight, taken at night by the Deer. This was reputedly the first picture taken of an animal at night in which the animal itself triggered the camera. It was written up in several…
An album designed to hold carte de visite photographs
Pleasants family, CollectorView Full Item in UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History CollectionThis carte-de-visite-album includes portraits of a number of Southern California pioneers, including members of the Carpenter and Wolfskill families
Stereograph portrait showing “Princess Bonita, Queen of the Leopards” and the Appalachian Exposition of 1910
C.A. Wayland, So. Knoxville, TNView Full Item in Knox County Public LibraryHist. Photo Copy Project 2011-012-097 [Princess Bonita, Queen of the leopards. “Big Otto’s” Trained Wild Animals]. Appalachian Exposition, Sept. 12-Oct. 12, 1910. No. 254. Stereo by C.A. Wayland, So.…
Staged scene on a stereograph, sold as novelty entertainment for the masses, circa 1860
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle from item. Part of series: Comic series. Groups from life. Date supplied by cataloger.
Souvenir paperweight of the Catskill Mountains with mounted albumen photograph
View Full Item in Albany Institute of History & ArtPhoto of Catskill Mountain House Souvenir Paperweight. Paperweight dates from 1865-1870.
Magic lantern slide showing a Berber water seller
Wilson, G. W. (George Washington), 1823-1893View Full Item in Getty Research InstituteSlide has printed title: “The Western Orient:” Morocco. G. W. W. Source of the title: Title from caption on mount. Signature/Stamp: Photographer’s credit on slide. #28. Dimensions: Magic lantern slide…
Box that held dry photographic plates, an advancement over previous wet plate technologies
Cromer, George C., 1869-1950View Full Item in The Filson Historical SocietyEarly photographs by Alfred Steiglitz printed using innovative halftone techniques in 1893
View Full Item in Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute LibraryForms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction In: The American amateur photographer, vol. 5, 1893 / editors : F.C. Beach and Catharine Weed Barnes. New Yo…
Carte de visite of unknown girl, hand-tinted to add color
View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by cataloger. C. Hawkins, Brighton School of Photography, 38 Preston Street and at 12 East Street
Hand-tinted tintype of a Union cavalryman
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesThis hand tinted tintype is of a Union cavalryman with either the last name of Vermillion or Bryant. Family story is that he was a teamster in an Iowa cavalry regiment from Greene County, Iowa. There…
Frederick Eugene Ives book introducing the Kromskop system for taking color photographs using a three color separation process in 1889
Ives, Frederic Eugene, 1856-1937View Full Item in Getty Research InstituteA book of color lithographs created from photographic images in 1902
View Full Item in Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute LibraryForms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction In: Color photography / by Sir William J. Herschel. -- Washington : [s.n.], 1902. -- p. 313-316, 3 col. plat…
Color photograph created using a three color separation process by Adolf Miethe in 1903
Miethe, Adolf, 1862-1927View Full Item in Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Libraryvon Prof. Dr. A. Miethe Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction In: Jahrbuch für photographie und reproductionstechnik für das jahr, 1903 / hrsg. vo…
Autochrome color postcard featuring photographs from an early motion picture
Bamforth & Co. (publisher, English, act. 1870-1990), EnglishView Full Item in Trinity CollegeBamforth & Co Ltd was started in 1870 by James Bamforth, a portrait photographer in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Although the Bamforth company was best known in the United Kingdom for producing a wide r…
