Photography Toolkit

Web Sites

• Craig’s Daguerreian Registry
  www.daguerreotype.com
• Early St. Louis Photographers
  genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/photography.htm
• EdinPhoto—Professional Photographers 1840 to 1920
  www.edinphoto.org.uk: Click “Profess Photog.”
• Finding Photographers
  www.findingphotographers.com
• George Eastman House
  www.geh.org
• History of Kodak Roll Films
  members.aol.com/chuck02178/film.htm
• Index of Victorian, Edwardian and Early 20th-Century UK Photographers
  www.users.waitrose.com/~rodliffe
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
  lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
• Nineteenth Century Photography—A Timeline
  www.victorianweb.org/photos/chron.html

Books

• American Photographs: The First Century by Merry A. Foresta (Smithsonian Institution Press, $35)
• Biographies of Western Photographers 1840-1900 by Carl Mautz (Carl Mautz Publishing, $50)
• Black Photographers 1840-1940: An Illustrated Biobibliography by Deborah Willis-Thomas (Garland, out of print)
• Catching Shadows: A Directory of Nineteenth-Century Texas Photographers by David Haynes (Texas State Historical Association, $19.95)
• Collector’s Guide to Early Photographs by O. Henry Mace (Krause Publications, $19.95)
• Directory of Massachusetts Photographers, 1839-1900 by Chris Steele and Ron Polito (Picton Press, $75)
• Directory of Pennsylvania Photographers, 1839-1900 by Linda Ries and Jay W. Ruby (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, $29.95)
• Directory of Photographers in the United States 1888 & 1889 and Canada 1889 by Diane VanSkiver Gagel (Heritage Books, $31)
• International Guide to Nineteenth Century Photographers and Their Works: Based on Catalogues of Auction Houses and Dealers (Art) by Gary Edwards (G.K. Hall, $70)
• Ohio Photographers, 1839-1900 by Diane VanSkiver Gagel (Carl Mautz Publishing, $35)
• Photographers: A Sourcebook for Historical Research edited by Peter Palmquist (Carl Mautz Publishing, $25)
• Photography and Photographers to 1900: An Annotated Bibliography by Robert S. Sennet (Garland, out of print)

Organizations

• The Daguerreian Society
  3043 W. Liberty Ave.
  Pittsburgh, PA 15216
  (412) 343-5525
  www.daguerre.org
• Photographic Historical Society
  350 Whiting Road
  Webster, NY 14580
  www.rit.edu/~andpph/tphs.html