A source for supplies, information, and workshops on alternative photographic processes

This is a good source of supplies for predigital photographic processes. Photographers’ Formulary also offers workshops in alternative and traditional darkroom processes.

In Columbus.

In Columbus.

Provider of digital media worldwide, creating and distributing a range of assets – from royalty-free stock photography and editorial images to footage, music and multimedia.

Royalty-free stock images, media, and design elements

Great source to locate free stock images. Users can sign up for an account to download and contribute images.

ections are devoted to primary source literature, the science and technology of albumen prints and implications for preservation. A gallery of albumen prints, a video demonstrating the albumen photographic process, and a discussion forum are included as well.

This site has extensive information on the role of the photgravure in the history of photography. It includes information about key photographers, a detailed description of the photogravure process, a search-able database of early and contemporary photogravures, information about collecting photogravures, and a glossary of terms.

The site includes a daguerreotype FAQ, a searchable image database, browsable image galleries organized by subject (including contemporary Daguerreotypes), and resources for research (articles, bibliographies, a brief history of daguerreotypes, illustrations of the daguerreian process, and links to additional resources).

Part of a larger site of Victorian photograph exhibit catalogs, this page provides overviews of more than 50 terms related to photographic processing.

By Jeff Curto, Professor Emeritus of Photography at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he taught from 1984 to 2014.

Books available on the history of photography, on photographic processes and identification. You can purchase them, or refer to them or check them out of a library. Also find free and inexpensive e-books available online to help with 19th and early 20th century photographic processes, formats, and various passing styles.

A source for purchasing and researching fine art photography.

Images and documents relating to one of the originators of photography.

Biographical data describing photographers, studios, manufacturers, and others involved in the production of photographic images; consisting of names, nationalities, dates, locations and more.

An amazing collection of visual entertainments, mostly from before 1900, including magic lanterns, peepshows, shadows, transparencies, thaumatropes, phenakistascopes and a variety of other optical toys. This is the archived page for the collection, which is now housed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy's site does not include images). Some images may not load.