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Photography

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Welcome to the CCSF Research Guide for Photography! 

Explore the history of photography from Daguerreotypes to Digital Photography

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Daguerreotype image of San Francisco, ca. 1850; collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Daguerreotype image of San Francisco, ca. 1850 (collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Creative Commons license)

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