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	A History of Photography URL: http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/ ODP description: Contains an extensive history, from earliest times to the 1920s. Includes biographical information on all significant photographers. Page description: A hypertext history of photography from earliest times to the 1920s
	Early Visual Media URL: http://www.visual-media.be/ ODP description: History of visual Media, photography pre-cinema prestidigitation danse macabre optical illusions.
	Albumen Photographs URL: http://albumen.stanford.edu/ ODP description: Presents the art and science of albumen printing, contemporary research, conservation and treatment of images. Page title: Albumen
	Arab Foundation for Images URL: http://www.fai.org.lb/ ODP description: A non-profit association located in Lebanon, aiming to promote photography in the Middle East and the North Africa by locating, collecting and preserving the photographic heritage of that region. Includes a profile, exhibitions, publications and films. Page title: Arab Image Foundation
	Pinhole Photography URL: http://www.photo.net/photo/pinhole/pinhole ODP description: History of pinhole photography, including theory and construction details.
	The Magic Mirror of Life: An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura URL: http://brightbytes.com/cosite/cohome.html ODP description: Many facets of the camera obscura (dark room); the origin of the photographic camera, its place in art, culture and education,vintage instruments,images, photographs, and working camera obscuras are included. Page description: A site devoted to the history and appreciation of the camera obscura.
	Central Pacific Railroad URL: http://cprr.org/ ODP description: Has a photographic history museum; also stereoviews of the first transcontinental railroad. Page title: Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - Transcontinental Railroad Page description: Central Pacific Railroad construction in the 1860's. Stereoviews, engravings, maps, and documents are treasures of western Americana that illustrate the history of the first transcontinental railroad, built from Sacramento, California over the Sierra Nevada mountains, the to end of track at the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory, Utah where the rails were joined on May 10, 1869 with the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha, Nebraska. CPRR ste...
	City-Gallery.com URL: http://www.city-gallery.com/ ODP description: Information on photography, family photographs and images, and genealogy. Focus is on 19th century photography. Page title: City Gallery
	Midley History of Photography URL: http://www.midley.co.uk/ ODP description: Presents essays by R. Derek Wood on the history of early photography, the daguerreotype and diorama. Page title: Midley History of early Photography Page description: Essays by R. Derek Wood on the way Photography began in the 1830s and 1840s, the Daguerreotype, and Diorama.
	Historic Photo Archive URL: http://www.historicphotoarchive.com/f2/kodachrome.html ODP description: Kodachrome dating guide for vintage slides. Page title: KODACHROME SLIDE DATING GUIDE
	Lafayette Negative Archive URL: http://lafayette.150m.com/ ODP description: Catalogue of vintage photographs made by the Lafayette studio of London, containing images made between 1887 and the 1930s, categorized by subject. Has explanatory articles.
	Photographer Nicephore Niepce URL: http://www.niepce.com/home-us.html ODP description: French scientist and inventor who discovered the process known as Heliography. Presents a biography, other inventions, the home, events, documents, and contact information. Located in Saint-Loup de Varennes, France. Page title: Photographer Nicephore Niepce - History of Photography - Point de Vue du Gras Page description: Photo Students and Educators can Learn about The History of Photography, from the first photograph, 'Point de Vue du Gras' by scientist and inventor Nicephore Niepce. An educational photo site about Niepce, the process called Heliography and his experiments with Daguerre.
	Cut & Paste - A History Of Photomontage URL: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/ ODP description: Covering the artists involved in photomontage in the Berlin Dada movement, 1980s politics, and the present day. Page title: Cut And Paste: A History of Photomontage Page description: Cut And Paste: A History of Photomontage
	Photographs: The Metropolitan Museum of Art URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=19 ODP description: Images, history, and technical information about their collection of photographs. Page title: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Photographs Page description: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection contains more than two million works of art ranging from medieval armor and european paintings to the world renowned Costume Institute.
	Index of UK photographers up to c1950 URL: http://www.users.waitrose.com/~rodliffe/ ODP description: Indexes and links for UK photographers, county by county, for the 19th and early 20th century. Page title: Waitrose.com Support
	Latin American Photography 1840-1920. M & M Cuarterolo's Collection URL: http://www.geocities.com/alloni1/home ODP description: Large selection of early images of Argentina and other Latin American countries and information on the photographers active in the region between 1840 and 1920. Page title: Anfy preview
	Photica Project URL: http://www.cwriley.com/photica/index.htm ODP description: Contains information and articles on historical photographers and groups. Page title: Photica Project Web Site
	Cuarterolo Archive URL: http://archivocuarterolo.8m.com ODP description: The Cuarterolo archive is an image bank focused on 19th century Argentine and Latin American photography that houses over 5000 historic photographs. Page title: Archivo Cuarterolo - Cuarterolo Archive
	History of Photography Timeline URL: http://photo.net/learn/history/timeline ODP description: Highlights major developments in timeline format. Page title: History of Photography Timeline - photo.net Page description: A capsule history of photography, from the camera obscura to the digital SLR
	Painting and Photography URL: http://art-photography.netfirms.com ODP description: Some notes on the history of photography, mostly concerning the relationship between painting and photography.