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Cased images of Australian aborigines are few and far between so the discovery of six images, three daguerreotypes and three ambrotypes in the Mill Cottage Museum in Port Lincoln, South Australia is particularly exciting news.

https://open.abc.net.au/posts/rare-daguerreotypes-found-97xr2kf…

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Graphics Atlas is a new online resounce that brings sophisticated print identification and characteristic exploration tools to archivists, curators, historians, collectors, conservators, educators and the general pubic. http://www.graphicsatlas.org/

Ruth Wilcock has ju st published her book "Whitby Photographers, their lives and their photographs from the 1840s" that can be purchased via her website http://towlard.com. It has 218 pages A4 containing over 260 photos and 170 illustrations, many never published before that help tell…

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In Australia in the late 1860s and early 1870s the American and Australasian Photographic Company with their team of photographers headed by Henry Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss undertook travels starting in Melbourne to progressively photograph every building in a given town, progressing moving through Victoria and then New South Wales. A large cache of their negatives of the Hill End and Tambaroora region have survived and are currently being digitised at the State Library of New South… Continue

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A new website was launched last year but it is still being refined that contains probably the largest database in existence of British and Irish photographers http://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/.



Although specific content requires payment to help cover the costs of setting up and maintaining the site (and collection used to produce it) there is an increasing amount of free content such as the biographies of British… Continue