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1 Black and White (Monochrome)

• Daguerreotype, 1839
• Calotype, 1841
• Cyanotype, 1842
• Albumen print, 1850
• Collodion process, 1851
• Carbon print , 1864
• Collotype , 1870
• Platinotype, 1873
• Gelatino-Bromide emulsions , 1875
• Bromoil ProcessThe Bromoil Process is an early photographic process that was very popular with the Picturalists during the first half of the twentieth century. The soft, paint-like qualities of the prints are very typical for this genre. It was based on the oilprint, wh, 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis
• PalladiotypeIn photography, palladiotype is a monochrome printing process, a rather obscure variant of the platinotype. The process was in use after World War I, because the platinum used in the fairly popular platinotype quickly became too expensive for use in photo, 1914Events January 4 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador January 5 Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor February 13 Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Compos
• Gum Dichromate
• AmbrotypeThe ambrotype process (from Greek ambrotos "immortal") is a photographic process invented in in the mid-1850s by Frederick Scott Archer. The process creates a glass negative, which appears as a positive when placed against a black background. One side of
• Chrysotype
• Woodburytype
• Tintype or Ferrotype
• Dry collodion negative
• Salt print
• PhotogravurePhotogravure is a type of intaglio printing process used for reproducing monochromatic (black and white) images. Yale University president Timothy Dwight V, from an 1899 book In the late 19th century and early 20th century photograuvure was frequently use
• Gelatin-silver processThe Gelatin-silver process is the photographic process used with currently available black and white films and printing papers. A suspension of silver salts in gelatin is coated onto acetate film or resin coated paper and allowed to dry (hence the term dr

2 Color

• Lippmann process , 1891
• Autochrome Lumière, 1903
• Agfacolor
• Cibachrome
• Dye transfer print
• Kodachrome
  • K-12 process
  • K-14 process
• Ektachrome
  • E-4 process
  • E-6 process
• C-41 process