Two Treatises on Photography (excerpts)

  • From Fancois Fauvel-Gourand, Description of the Daguerreotype Process, or A Summary of M. Gouraud's Public Lectures, According to the Principles of M. Daguerre. With a Description of a Provisory Method for Taking Human Portraits. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth's Print, 1840.
  • From S. D. Humphrey and M. Finley, A System of Photography. Containing an Explicit Detail of the Whole Process of Daguerreotype, According to the Most Approved Methods of Operating Including all the Late Valuable Improvements, as Practiced by the Most Successful Artists; with Receipts and Instructions for Manufacturing the Chemicals Used in the Art; to which is Added the Process of Galvanizing, Electrotype, and Calotype, also, M. Becquerel's Process for Producing Daguerreotypes with the Colors of Nature. Canandaigua, N.Y.: The Ontario Messenger, 1849.


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