A compilation of 19th century magazine articles documenting the people, progress and history of photography. Contains rare articles about Daguerre's discovery of photography written in 1839. About Talbots pursuit to develop modern photography and his talbotype. This compilation provides a great reference of rare journals articles from the The United States Magazine & Democratic Review, The American Journal of Science and Art, The Knickerbocker, The Saturday Magazine, Littell's Living Age, The Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, The Century Magazine, and McClures Magazine.