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A daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln

A Daguerreotype was the first successful commercial photography process. Its surface had the resemblance of a mirror, and was the predecessor to the photography process of heliography.

The albumen print was the first method to print a photograph on paper commercially. It's process used the albumen of egg whites to develop the photo to the paper, and eventually the process died out during the early 19th century.

An albumen print of the Hypaethral Temple

A stereoscope of the Charles Street Mall in Boston

A stereograph is an image that uses binocular vision to create the illusion of depth. It was very popular in the 1860s.


A Carte de Visite was a style of small photograph that was popular in the 1860s. It started a huge widespread of "Cardomania",
and was used by soldiers and the rich to send
small pictures fast.

Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner were photographers of the

photojournalists, for they were well-known for their documentation and photography during the civil war. 

Picture of Abraham Lincoln, taken
by Brady

A Carte de Visite of Napoleon III 

Execution of the Lincoln conspirators,
taken by Gardner