View from the Window at Le Gras

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

1827

heliograph

Oriel Window, Lacock

William Henry Fox Talbot

1835

photogenic drawing

James Linton—Newhaven

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

1843

salt print from calotype negative

The Haystack

William Henry Fox Talbot

1844

salt print from calotype negative

Articles of China

William Henry Fox Talbot

1844

salt print from calotype negative

Edinburgh Ale

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

1845

salt print from calotype negative

Portrait of Albert Southworth

Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Hawes

1848

daguerrotype

Thomas H. Proctor, died August 31 1850, Age 16

maker unknown

1850

daguerrotype

Le Stryge

Charles Négre

1851

salt print from calotype negative

Organ Grinder

Charles Négre

1852

salt print from calotype negative

Amien

Édouard-Denis Baldus

1855

salt print from calotype negative

The Hardships of Camp

Roger Fenton

1855

salt print from collodion negative

Valley of the Shadow of Death

Roger Fenton

1855

salt print from collodion negative

Brig on the Water

Gustave Le Gray

1856

albumen print from collodion negative

Tree Study—Fountainbleau

Gustave Le Gray

1856

salt print from calotype negative

The Two Ways of Life

Oscar Gustav Rejlander

1857

albumen (composite) print from collodion negatives

Fading Away

Henry Peach Robinson

1858

albumen (combination) print from collodion negatives

Westminster, from the Waterloo Bridge

Roger Fenton

1858

salt print from collodion negative

The Beggarmaid

Charles Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll")

1859

albumen print from collodion negative

Tankard and Fruit

Roger Fenton

1860

albumen print from collodion negative

A Harvest of Death

Timothy O'Sullivan

1863

albumen print from collodion negative

Grace Through Love

Julia Margaret Cameron

1865

albumen print from collodion negative

Isabella Grace and Florence Elizabeth Maud

Lady Hawarden Clementina 

1865

albumen print from collodion negative

Sarah Bernhardt

Gaspard-Felix Tournachon Nadar

1865

salt print from collodion negative

Cape Horn, Columbia River

Carleton Watkins

1867

albumen print (mammoth plate) from collodion negative

John Herschel

Julia Margaret Cameron

1867

albumen print from collodion negative

Sulphur Hot Spring, near Ruby Lake, Nevada

Timothy O'Sullivan

1868

albumen print from collodion negative

Joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads

Andrew J Russell

1869

albumen print from collodion negative

Mary Todd Lincoln with the Spirit of her Husband, President Abraham Lincoln

William H. Mumler

1870-75

albumen print, carte-de-visite format

Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelley, New Mexico

Timothy O'Sullivan

1873

albumen print from collodion negative

The Crawlers—Street Life of London

John Thomson

1877

woodburytype

Chronophotograph of a Soldier Walking

Étienne-Jules Marey

1883

gelatin silver print from dry plate negative

Elephant Walking—Almost One Stride

Eadward Muybridge

1884-87

collotype from Animal Locomotion

Composite Photograph of Criminal Type

Francis Galton

1885

photomechanical reproduction

Gunner Working Up To The Fowl

Peter Henry Emerson

1887

platinum print

Home of an Italian Ragpicker

Jacob Riis

1890

gelatin silver print from dry plate negative

Winter–Fifth Avenue

Alfred Stieglitz

1893

photogravure

The Fetters of Winter

Peter Henry Emerson

1895

photogravure

In Memoriam

Edward Steichen

1902

gum over platinum print