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Focusing on the history of 19th century photography, this narrative moves from a close-up look at several selected events between 1847 and 1900, from the six industrial fairs of the 1840s - 1860s to the looming presence of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in the mid 1870s. The last two chapters deal with the exhibition work of the Smithsonian Institution's US National Museum in the 1880's and finally the collecting and displays of public libraries in the 1890's. The evolution of the increasingly complex social function of photography is clearly demonstrated. Photography had moved from being an object of commerce to an applied tool of specialized knowledge, a museum artifact of social culture, and finally, a visual resource of information.
