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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to the calotype |
| 2 | Early paper prints and their confusing terminology |
| 3 | Paper negatives and paper mills |
| Themes |
| 4 | Calotypes: Still life |
| 5 | Calotypes: Portraits |
| 6 | Calotypes: Exteriors |
| 7 | Calotypes: Art |
| Painted calotypes |
| 8 | Painted calotypes |
| Photographers |
| 9 | Henry Fox Talbot: The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey (1835 or 1839) |
| 10 | Henry Fox Talbot: The Pencil of Nature (1844-1846) |
| 11 | Henry Fox Talbot: Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) |
| 12 | Hill & Adamson: Calotypes (1843-1847) |
| 13 | Hill & Adamson: Disruption of the Church of Scotland (1843) |
| 14 | Hill & Adamson: A Series of Calotype Views - St. Andrews (1846) |
| 15 | Hill & Adamson: Newhaven |
| 16 | William Sterling: Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848) |
| 17 | Comte Frederic Flacheron: Rome |
| 18 | Giacomo Caneva: Rome |
| 19 | Victor Prevost: Paper negatives (ca 1853) |
| 20 | Julien Vallou de Villeneuve: Negatives |
| 21 | W. & F. Langenheim: Calotypes and salt prints |
| 22 | John Shaw Smith: Calotypes |
| 23 | Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia: Negatives |
| 24 | François Joseph Edouard de Campigneules: Calotypes (ca 1858) |
| 25 | Édouard Delessert: Ile de Sardaigne: Cagliari et Sassari, 40 Vues Photographiques (1854) |
| 26 | Richard Banner Oakeley: The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859) |
| 27 | Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut: Belgian cityscapes |
| 28 | Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut: Portraits |
| France |
| 29 | Introduction to calotypes in France |
| Compilations |
| 30 | Nicolaas Henneman: Talbotypes or Sun Pictures, Taken From The Actual Objects Which They Represent (1847) |
| Studios and printing works |
| 31 | Nicolaas Henneman: The Reading Establishment - Talbot House |
| Blanquart-Evrard process |
| 32 | Blanquart-Evrard process prints |
| Fading |
| 33 | Punch (1847) on fading photographs and fading love |
| 34 | Photographic Society of London: Fading Committee (1855) |
