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Photography -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Michael Caporale Collection, William Preston Mayfield Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS-269
Scope and Contents The Michael Caporale Photograph Collection consists of 356 photographs collected by Michael Caporale. The collection is close in provenance to MS 271, the Peerless Mayfield Collection. Many of the images in both collections are similar subjects and clearly come from the same sources. Users may wish to consult both collections to obtain a more complete overview of Mayfield’s photographic legacy. Series 1 of this collection consists of photographs taken by Dayton photographer...
Dates: 1880-1979

Richard Fullerton Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-213
Abstract This collection consists of over 2,000 photographs and negatives collected, and in some cases taken by Richard Fullerton, who spent his career in the photography laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The portrait photography in the collection represents predominant photographic processes, portraiture styles, and formats from the second half of the 19th century. The collection contains tintypes, cartes-de-visites, cabinet cards, albumen prints, platinum prints, matte collodion...
Dates: Circa 1850-1989; Majority of material found within Bulk 1860-1930