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A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Process Fundamentals
The building blocks of historical photography — the daguerreotype, ambrotype, tintype, and collodion processes, the chemistry and optics behind them, and how exposure and reciprocity actually work.
13 entriesPioneers & Inventors
The people who built photography — Daguerre and Niépce, Talbot and Archer, Eastman and Barnack, and the studio photographers who turned a chemical curiosity into a global medium.
13 entriesStudio & Formats
The formats that carried photography into ordinary homes — cartes de visite and cabinet cards, stereoscopy, photograph albums, and the studio conventions behind a Victorian portrait.
9 entriesCameras & Film
From roll film to 35mm — the box cameras, folding cameras, and rangefinders that followed the wet-plate era, and the celluloid film that made them possible.
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