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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to poetry related to photography |
| Poems related to photography |
| 2 | Photographic Phenomena, or the new school of portrait painting (1842) |
| 3 | Lillian E. Curtis: The Lost Photograph (1874) |
| 4 | To My Sweetheart's Kodak (1890) |
| 5 | Joel Benton: The Kodak Fiend |
| 6 | Joseph C. Lincoln: The Old Daguerreotypes |
| 7 | Ernest Knoll: Homer with a Camera |
| 8 | Thomas Hardy: The Photograph |
| 9 | Shirley Toulson: A Photograph |
| 10 | Philip Larkin: Lines On A Young Lady's Photograph Album |
| 11 | George Oppen: From a Photograph (1962) |
| 12 | Margaret Atwood: This is a Photograph of Me |
| 13 | Wislawa Szymborska: Photograph from September 11 |
| 14 | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Camera |
| Poems as a marketing tool |
| 15 | Marketing: Root's Daguerrean Gallery (1853) |
| 16 | Stiles P. Armsbury (Adams, Jefferson County, N.Y.): Pro Bono Publico (10 June 1858) |
| 17 | John Day (Wayne Township, OH): A seated man holding a book {John W. See] |
| 18 | Introduction to the carte de visite album |
| 19 | C. G. Blatt's Photographic Emporium, Bernville, PA (1870s) |
| 20 | William D. Jackson, Sr.: Trade card from Waco, Texas (1880-1900) |
| 21 | Garfield's Electric Light Studio, 329 Broad St. (1896) |
| Photographers |
| 22 | William Morris Grundy: Sunshine in the Country: A Book of Rural Poetry (1861) |
| 23 | Adelaide Hanscom Leeson: Sonnets from the Portuguese (ca. 1916) |
| 24 | Martin Chambi: Peru - Macchu Picchu |
