The History and Practice of the Art of Photography

by Henry Hunt Snelling

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. A Brief History of the Art
4. The Theory on Light.--the Photographic Principle
5. Synopsis of Mr. Hunt's Treatise on "the Influence of the Solar Rays on Compound Bodies, with Especial Reference to Their Photographic Application."
6. A Few Hints and Suggestions to Daguerreotypists
7. Daguerreotype Apparatus
8. The Daguerreotype Process
9. Paper Daguerreotypes.--Etching Daguerreotypes
10. Photogenic Drawing on Paper
11. Calotype and Chrysotype
12. Positive Calotype
13. The Chrysotype
14. Cyanotype--Energiatype--Chromatype--Anthotype--Amphitype and "Crayon Daguerreotype."
15. I. Cyanotype
16. II. Energiatype
17. III. Chromatype
18. IV. Anthotype
19. V. Amphitype
20. VI. "Crayon Daguerreotype."
21. On the Probability of Producing Colored Pictures by the Solar Radiations--Photographic Deviations--Lunar Pictures--Drummond Light
22. Photographic Deviations
23. Lunar Pictures--Drummond Light
24. On Coloring Daguerreotypes
25. The Photographometer

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