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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to events |
| Events as portrayed by different processes |
| 2 | Daguerreotypes: Events |
| 3 | Salt prints: Events |
| 4 | Albumen prints: Events |
| 5 | Cartes de visite: Events |
| 6 | Cabinet cards: Events |
| 7 | Stereoviews: Events |
| 8 | Gelatin silver prints: Events |
| Periodic events |
| 9 | Introduction to naval reviews |
| Examples of events |
| 10 | City of Hamburg fire (1842) |
| 11 | Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855) |
| 12 | George N. Barnard: Oswego Mills (1853) |
| 13 | Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853) |
| 14 | Philip Henry Delamotte: Visit of the Emperor and Empress of France with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to the Crystal Palace (20 April 1855) |
| 15 | Alexander Gardner: The Battle of Antietam (September-October 1862) |
| 16 | First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862) |
| 17 | Ghémar Frères: The Engagement of the future Queen Alexandra and Edward VII, Brussels, Belgium (September 1862) |
| 18 | Second Japanese Embassy to Europe - Ikeda Nagaoki's Japanese Mission to Europe (1864) |
| 19 | Timothy O'Sullivan: A council of war at Massaponax Church, VA (21 May 1864) |
| 20 | Alexander Gardner: Execution of the conspirators who assassinated Abraham Lincoln (7 July 1865) |
| 21 | A.J. Russell: Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Point, Utah (10 May 1869) |
| 22 | China: Typhoon (September 1874) |
| 23 | Sumner & Son (Northfield): The Aftermath of the Northfield Raid (1876) |
| 24 | Greece: The Dilessi Murders (1870) |
| 25 | Death of the Prince Imperial (Prince Louis-Napoléon) - Killed 1st June, 1879, on the Hyotoyozi river. South Africa |
| 26 | The collision of the steamship Arizona with an iceberg (7 November 1879) |
| 27 | A.A. Hughes & Bro. (Blanchard, Iowa): [Jesse James dead; in coffin; body half covered with sheet; 4 men standing by] (1882) |
| 28 | Ivan Boldyrev: Night illumination at Peterhof (1893) |
| 29 | Victims of the Khodinsky Plain panic, Coronation Week, Moscow, Russia (1896) |
| 30 | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (25 March 1911) |
| 31 | The execution of Ruth Synder (1929) |
| 32 | Hindenburg disaster (6 May 1937) |
| 33 | A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938) |
| 34 | SSgt Louis R. Lowery: First Flag Raising on Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) |
| 35 | Joe Rosenthal: Flag raising at Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) |
| 36 | Yevgeny Khaldei: Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin (2 May 1945) |
| 37 | Hugh van Es: Fleeing Americans during the fall of Saigon (29 April 1975) |
| 38 | Mikhail Kudish: Nick Ut and Kim Phuc (2012) |
| 39 | World Trade Center (September 11, 2001) |