Early photography in Canada.

Main entry:

Greenhill, Ralph.

Title & Author:

Early photography in Canada.

Publication:

Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1965.

Description:

173 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portraits 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 169).
1. The new art of Sun painting -- 2. The Daguerreotype era -- 3. The wet-plate process -- 4. Some early wet-plate photographers -- 5. Elevating the art -- 6. The West, the North, and British Columbia -- 7. Dry plate photography -- 8. Photography and the printed page.

Summary:

"In chapter 8, the discussion of Leggo is different from that in the second edition. It identifies the print of Prince Arthur in THE CANADIAN ILLUSTRATED NEWS of October 30, 1869 as being a photolithograph. Also, other details are treated differently."--Hanson Collection catalog

Subject:

Photography Canada History.
Photographie Canada Histoire.
Photography
Travel
Canada Description and travel.
Canada Pictorial works.
Canada Descriptions et voyages Vues
Canada Descriptions et voyages.
Canada
1839-1899

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 91581
Call No.: PO2788 CAN; ID:86-B18089
Status: Available

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