Louis Daguerre took this photograph of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris in 1838. Daguerre was the inventor of the Daguerrotype (the image in a Daguerreotype is formed by an alloy of mercury and

The story behind Nicéphore Niépce's 'View from the Window at Le Gras', the first photo known to have been made using a camera.

Centuries of colonialism had spread Europeans around the world, and 20th century developments in transportation were shrinking the globe. World War I pitted diverse nations and cultures against each other in a way no other conflict ever had.

The daguerreotype was the process of development of photography which entered use in 1839 and quickly gained massive popularity in Europe. Invented by a

Other than one or two of the world's supercentenarians, nobody remembers New York in 1911. Plenty of living historians and enthusiasts of the city have paid intensive attention to that booming time period when the city's population fast approached five million, but none experienced it first-hand. Open Culture, openculture.com

Frenchman Louis Daguerre’s improvements in photography reached America in the 1840s. Personal portraits were soon the craze, and ‘daguerreotype’ studios sprang up in every city, while traveling daguerreotypists served the countryside. This picture presents the controlled environment of the early studios. It took so long to properly expose a photographic plate that the subject needed a head brace to hold a pose.

Here's a photograph of Jessie Tarbox Beals, America's first female photojournalist, with her camera on a street a century ago. While most female