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Thomas Wedgwood thinks to invent photography
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Niépce produces first photograph with Camera Obscura
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Andrew Jackson sings Indian Removal Act into law
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Henry Fox Talbot creates first Calotype
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Louis-Jacques-Mande invents daguerreotype
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Henry Harrison wins the 1840 presidential election
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Anna Atkins produces the first photographic print book
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Henry Fox Talbot creates the first photographic book titled “The Pencil of Nature”
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The Great Flood of 1844 hits the Missouri River and Mississippi River
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Winfield Scott photographs the first war (Mexican American)
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The discovery of gold is the beginning of the California Gold Rush
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Frederick Scott Archer invented the wet-collodion process
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Roger Fenton photographs the Crimean War
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Lewis Carrol photographs Victorian England children and uses photographs artistically
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Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state
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Uncensored photos of the dead are photographed during the battle of Melegnano
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Abe Lincoln becomes President
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During the Civil War many photographers use the stereographic camera
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James Wallace captures first aerial photographs (of Boston)
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Silver Gelatin Process invented by José Martinez-Sanchez and Jean Laurent
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The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 is passed
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Telephone is invented
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The light bulb is invented
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The U.S. Congress passes the Immigration Act
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George Eastman invents the first Kodak camera, using film instead of glass plates
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Kodak introduces the “Brownie Camera” which is made for children use