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Tuesday, June 2016

Royal photo fans: Expand your knowledge with these ten facts about 19th century photography

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Yesterday we saw a really cool video shot in a Mexican underwater cave using a Sony A7S, but did you know that the first underwater photograph was created way back in 1856 by William Thompson? This is but one of the fun facts included in The Telegraph's list of ten "useless but exceedingly interesting facts about 19th...

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Monday, November 2015

American history preserved as photographer captured the railroad expansion in the 1860s

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Born in 1829, Andrew J. Russell worked a variety of jobs throughout his life. He was first a portrait and landscape painter. In 1862, he helped to organize a militia for the Union Army. While serving for the Union, Russell learned wet-plate collodion photography from photographer Egbert Guy Fowx for a fee of $300 (which...

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