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Silhouettes
Wedgewood & Davy succeed in making images of silhouettes -
First permanent photograph
Joseph Niépce creates the first permanent photograph, "View from the Window at Le Gras" -
Negative-Positive Process
Henry Fox Talbot creates the negative-positive process -
Trail of Tears
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First photographic process
Daguerre invents the first photographic process in collaboration with Niépce -
Daguerrotype
Daguerre announces the daguerrotype and it becomes widely known -
Photogenic Drawing
Talbot introduces the photogenic drawing, which is not as clear as the daguerreotype -
First glass negative & hyposulfite of soda
Introduced by John Herschel -
The Haystack
Talbot studies the affects of light in photography, creating a photo series showing haystacks in detail -
Calotype
Talbot introduces the calotype -
Burning of Oswego Mills
George Eastman photographs the ruins of the great fire in Hamburg, an attempt at recording events -
Mexican American War
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California Goldrush
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Collodion Process
Frederick Scott Archer introduces the collodion process which was used to make tintypes and glass negatives -
Abraham Lincoln Elected President
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American Civil War
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The Harvest of Death
Timothy O'Sullivan photographs the aftermath of Gettysburg -
Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
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Ulysses S. Grant elected president
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Gelatin Emulsion
Introduced by Richard Maddox -
First Telephone
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Pictorialism
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Kodak Camera
The Kodak camera is introduced -
Roll Film
The first celluloid roll film becomes commercially available by the Eastman company
