The history of some discoveries of photography / by Robert Hunt.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887.

Contributor:

Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Photography: The World through the Lens.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Photography: The World through the Lens

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--History.

Photography.

History.

Niépce de Saint-Victor, Claude-Félix-Abel, 1805-1870.

Niépce de Saint-Victor, Claude-Félix-Abel.

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.

Talbot, William Henry Fox.

Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.

Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé.

Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887.

Hunt, Robert.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, pages 287-308 leaves of plates, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[Washington] : [U.S. G.P.O.], [1904]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

A. Heliography: the process of Monsieur Niepce

B. Talbot's photogenic drawings

C. Daguerreotype: the discovery of M. Daguerre

D. The calotype.

Notes:

Caption title.

Originally published in the 1904 Annual report of the Board of Regents (Smithsonian Institution).

"Revised by T.W. Smillie, U.S. National Museum, from chapters II-IV of A Manual of Photography, by Robert Hunt. Fourth edition. London and Glasgow, 1854. Octavo, pp. 329"--P. 287.

Advertising: [2] p., 1st count.

Reproduction of the original from the Columbia University Libraries.

Contains:

Emmons, Samuel Franklin, 1841-1911. Theories of ore deposition historically considered.

Photographic work of Robert Hunt.

Researches on light.

Manual of photography.

The photographic work of Robert Hunt.

OCLC:

50506536

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Bound With:

With: Hunt's "Researches on light" (The amateur photographer and photography, Jan. 4, 1922, p. 19) and Hunt's "Manual of photography" (The amateur photographer and photography, Sept. 20, 1922, p. 245); and The photographic work of Robert Hunt (Photographic quarterly, vol. III, no. 11, p. 229-237 : ill.).

With: Theories of ore deposition historically considered / by S.F. Emmons.