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Media History Digital Library: Technical Journals Collection (1916 1965)

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of original journals that focus on the technology behind motion pictures, covering cinematography, photography, projection engineering, etc.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Every Picture Has a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Smithsonian Education presents "Every Picture Has a Story". Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students examine some of the millions of photographs in the Smithsonian. This amazing teaching package comes...
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Nez Perce Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
A site that follows the history of the Nez Perce, from the late nineteenth century to the present, using historical photographs of Chief Joseph, battlegrounds, and the Nez Perce people.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: William Henry Fox Talbot

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on William Henry Fox Talbot(1800-1877)and the invention of photography. With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.
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National Park Service: Atlanta: National Register of Historic Places

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Atlanta by visiting a number of historic sites in this fascinating city. Each highlighted site features commentary on historic significance and eye catching photography. At the bottom of each page you see links to four essays...
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: The First Photograph

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of how Joseph Nicephore Niepce was able to use pewter plates to invent the first permanent photographic image in 1827.

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