Book timeline

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A Revised Timeline of the Photographic Book

  • Henry Fox Talbot— The Pencil of Nature 1844-6 (salted paper Prints)

  • Matthew Brady— Gallery of Illustrious Americans 1850 (lithographs)

  • Alexander Hesler— Harper’s Travelers Guide 1854 (prospectus only— not completed)

  • Victor Prevost— Architectural Catalogue of New York 1854 (not completed)

  • G.R. Fardon— San Francisco Album 1856 (wet colloidon)

  • Alexander Gardner— Sketchbook of the Civil War 1866 (albumen)

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