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Title: The First Photograph Published in a Newspaper —1848
Post by: rcjordan on May 06, 2026, 01:02:09 AM

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Title: Re: The First Photograph Published in a Newspaper —1848
Post by: ergophobe on May 06, 2026, 01:54:57 AM
Neat. You can see the cobblestones have been torn up to make the barricades.

I used to use a lot of 19th century reference books and they are *full* of engravings, usually made from a photo. I'm not sure whether it was a quality issue or whether it was actually cheaper to hire and engraver to make the engraving from a photo than to pay a printer to print at high enough quality to reproduce a photo well.

But even 50 years on, reference books tended to be engravings.