Showing posts with label Photo History Timeline Collection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photo History Timeline Collection. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Photo History Timeline Collection

I just found this great website.

From the website:
"The Photo History Timeline Collection is a privately owned collection of original 19th and 20th century photographs and related artifacts that traces the technical and artistic development of photography and photo-mechanical printing from their origins in England and France in the early 19th century up through worldwide use in the mid-20th century."
It has a large collection of images hosted on Flickr and a photostream and slideshow; as well as links to other collections.

Maker: Seneca Ray Stoddard 1844-1917
Title/Year: Absorbed, 1888
Nationality: USA

Medium: albumen print

Size: 4 1/4 x 7 5/8 in

Location: USA

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