The progress of photography since the year 1879 : a review of the more important discoveries in photography and photographic chemistry, within the last four years, with special consideration of emulsion photography, and an additional chapter on photography for amateurs
Published in Philadelphia in 1883 by Edward L. Wilson, this photography manual is a translation of Hermann Vogel's German textbook, written for working photographers and amateurs reviewing recent advances in emulsion methods and chemistry. Its pictures are plain line engravings of optical and camera apparatus, including lens sections, a sliding plate holder, a box camera with a lamp inside, and a stereoscope-style viewer, with clear labelled parts a designer could adapt as technical diagram motifs.
