| 1868 | Asia • China
| John Thomson begins work on his magnum opus Illustrations of China and its People. The book, illustrated by Woodbury-type reproductions from his original photographs, is published four volumes in 1873-74 (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle) |
| 1868 | North America • USA
| Alexander Gardner completes Union Pacific Railroad portfolio, Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad and it is among the first of the major landscape photographic studies of the American west. |
| 1868 | North America • USA
| Carleton E. Watkins photographs the destruction of the San Francisco earthquake that ruptured the Hayward fault at 7:53 AM local time. (21 October 1868) |
| 1869 | Europe • France
| The first issue of Revue Photographique des Hopitaux de Paris appears. Edited by Dr. A. de Montmeja, a Parisian ophthalmologist and pioneering medical photographer, it is the first medical journal to contain photographs. [Read about] |
| 1869 | Europe • France
| Louis Ducos du Hauron publishes Les Couleurs en Photographie, Solution du Probleme that proposes the subtractive color process. |
| 1870 | North America • USA
| Henry R. Heyl of Philadelphia patents the Magic lantern projector. |
| 1871 | North America • USA
| 1st Lt. Geo.M. Wheeler of the War Department Corp. of Engineers leads the Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian with Timothy H. O'Sullivan as the photographer. |
| 1872 | Europe • France
| Louis Ducos du Hauron takes the first color photograph showing the town of Angouleme in France. |
| 1872 | North America • USA
| Alexander Gardner photographs a delegation of Sioux Native Americans to Washington DC headed by Red Cloud. (May 1872)
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| 1877 | North America • USA
| Eadweard Muybridge experiments with multiple cameras to take successive photographs of horses in motion. The experiments over multiple years result in an improved understanding of human and animal locomotion.
Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: New Volume 1 (Reprint of original volumes 1-4)
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