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- Image Permanence Institute. Print identification and characteristic exploration tools. www.graphicsatlas.org
- George Eastman House. www.notesonphotographs.org
- Burns, Stanley B. Forgotten Marriage: The Painted Tintype & The Decorative Frame, 1860-1910. New York: The Burns Press, 1995.
- Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. The History of Photography, from the camera obscura to the beginning of the modern era. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969.
- Gustavson, Todd. Camera. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2009.
- Hannavy, John. Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.
- Henisch, Heinz K. and Bridget A. Henisch. The Painted Photograph 1839-1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations. The Pennsylvania State University Press: Pennsylvania, 1996.
- Newhall, Beaumont. The Daguerreotype in America. Rev. ed. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.
- Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography from 1839 to the present. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982.
- Reilly, James M. Care and Identification of 19th Century Photographic Prints. New York: Eastman Kodak Company, 1986.
- Severa, Joan L. Dressed for the Photographer, Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900. Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1995.
- Taft, Robert. Photography and the American Scene, A Social History, 1839-1889. New York: Macmillan Company, 1938.
- Taylor, Maureen A. Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840-1900. Picture Perfect Press, 2009.
- Trachtenberg, Alan, ed. Classic Essays on Photography. Connecticut: Leete’s Island Books, 1980.
- Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American Photographs, Images as History Mathew Brady to Walker Evans. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989.
- Willis, Deborah, ed. Picturing Us, African American Identity in Photography. New York: The New Press, 1994.
- Making of a Tintype by George Eastman House. Process Historian Mark Osterman demonstrates the making of a Civil War-era tintype.