Photography

Nicéphore Niépce's earliest surviving photograph, c. 1826

Daguerreotype Daguerre Atelier 1837

Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre 1838

Robert Cornelius, self-portraitOct. or Nov. 1839The back reads, "The first light picture ever taken."

William Henry Fox Talbot “The Open Door,” 1844 Calotype

Roger Fenton - Shadow of the Valley of Death (1855)

Confederate Dead behind the Stone Wall at Mayre's Height's Fredericksburg VA May 3, 1863