Wet-plate photography


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Video resources
1	The Collodion Process
Introduction
2	The wet plate collodion process
3	Wet-plate photography
4	Panotypes / Pannotypes
Original publication
5	Frederick Scott Archer: On The Use of Collodion in Photography (March 1851)
Supplies
6	Collodion
7	William Henry Jackson: Equipment required for wet-plate photography (1869)
Photographers at work
8	Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
9	William Henry Jackson: Photographing in High Places
10	Wet-plate photographers at work
11	Mr James Mudd encounters a photographic van in Wales (1860)
Dark tents and dark boxes
12	Dark tents and dark boxes
13	Photographs of dark tents, dark boxes and photographers in the field
14	Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents

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