The History of Photography

Abstract

I TRUST you will kindly allow me space for a few lines on the subject of some rare specimens connected with the History of Photography, now in the possession of Madame Niepce de St. Victor, whose husband it will be remembered was the first to employ glass, and a transparent medium (albumen) for the purposes of photography, thus discovering, to a great extent, the process of Photography as it exists at the present day. The first glass negative, or rather cliché, Madame Nièpce possesses, as likewise prints executed in 1848.