Photography History 1800-1920

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  • Silhouettes

    Wedgewood & Davy succeed in making images of silhouettes
  • First permanent photograph

    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

  • 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

    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

    Burning of Oswego Mills

    George Eastman photographs the ruins of the great fire in Hamburg, an attempt at recording events

  • Mexican American War

  • California Goldrush

  • Collodion Process

    Frederick Scott Archer introduces the collodion process which was used to make tintypes and glass negatives

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected President

  • Period: to

    American Civil War

  • The Harvest of Death

    The Harvest of Death

    Timothy O'Sullivan photographs the aftermath of Gettysburg

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

  • Ulysses S. Grant elected president

  • Gelatin Emulsion

    Introduced by Richard Maddox

  • First Telephone

  • Period: to

    Pictorialism

  • Kodak Camera

    Kodak Camera

    The Kodak camera is introduced

  • Roll Film

    The first celluloid roll film becomes commercially available by the Eastman company