Early Photography: Daguerreotype, Calotype, Wet Collodion, Carte de Visite

OER Texts on this topic:

• Daguerre and the Invention of Photography

• Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs. Herbert Duckworth

• Niépce, Talbot, and Muybridge

• The Daguerreotype Archive

Photographic Archives on this topic:

• University of Washington, American Indians in the Northwest

• Archive Farms, History of Photography Collection

Open Access Images freely available to use on this topic:

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Photographer Unknown, ca. 1844, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, 2005.100.611

[Young Girl Wearing Gingham Shawl, Resting on Pillow], Beckers & Piard, 1853–56,  2015.400.3, Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 20

Articles of China, William Henry Fox Talbot, before January 1844, 1994.197.1 (3), Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994

Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879), photographer, Henry Taylor, October 10, 1867, Albumen silver print, 34.1 × 28.1 cm (13 7/16 × 11 1/16 in.), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XM.349.1

Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879), photographer, Queen Esther before King Ahasuerus, 1865, Albumen silver print, Image: 33.8 × 26.7 cm (13 5/16 × 10 1/2 in.), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XM.349.10

Disdéri & Cie., photographer, [Empress Eugenie], 1860, Albumen silver print, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XD.379.18