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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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History of Photography
Beginnings of the Camera
History of Photography: Beginnings of the Camera
Earliest Photography
Beginnings of the Camera
Books in the UML Library
Library Research
Related Sites
Photography Industry
Major Figures
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Gordon Parks
Dorothea Lange
Berenice Abbott
Walker Evans
Ansel Adams
Articles on Early Camera Photography
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography
The Pencil Of Nature, William Henry Fox Talbot
Frederick Scott Archer, The Collodion Process
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Louis Daguerre
Nicephore Niepce
Frederick Scott Archer
William Henry Fox Talbot
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