The earliest paper photographs. Characterized by a matte finish where the image is embedded within the fibers of the paper rather than on top, salt prints offer an organic, historic aesthetic that defined the mid-19th century.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Early paper prints and their confusing terminology |
| Examples |
| 2 | Painted salt prints |
| 3 | Blanquart-Evrard process prints |
| 4 | Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard: reproductions of works of art |
| 5 | Salt prints: Stereo |
| Photographers |
| 6 | Henry Fox Talbot: The Pencil of Nature (1844-1846) |
| 7 | Henry Fox Talbot: Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) |
| 8 | Henry Fox Talbot: The Bertoloni Album |
| 9 | Henry Fox Talbot: Paper negatives, waxed paper negatives, calotypes |
| 10 | Hill & Adamson: Portraits |
| 11 | Hill & Adamson: Scottish presbyterians |
| 12 | Hill & Adamson: Disruption of the Church of Scotland (1843) |
| 13 | Hill & Adamson: Newhaven |
| 14 | Hill & Adamson: A Series of Calotype Views - St. Andrews (1846) |
| 15 | Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem |
| 16 | John Beasly Greene: Le Nil (1854) |
| 17 | John Stewart: Pyrenees (1850s) |
| 18 | Vicomte Joseph Vigier: Pyrenees |
| 19 | Edmond Bacot: Christian architecture and cultural heritage in France |
| 20 | Pompeo Bondini: Italy |
| 21 | Roger Fenton: Russia (1852) |
| 22 | George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857) |
| 23 | Julien Vallou de Villeneuve: Artist studies - Académies |
| 24 | Louis-Camille d'Olivier: Nudes |
| 25 | Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 (1852) |
| Themes |
| 26 | Salt prints: Backgrounds |
| 27 | Salt prints: Exteriors |
| 28 | Salt prints: Portraits |
| 29 | Salt prints: Occupations and roles |
| 30 | Salt prints: Military |
| 31 | Salt prints: Landscapes |
| 32 | Salt prints: Panoramas |
| 33 | Salt prints: Scientific |
| 34 | Salt prints: Still life |
| 35 | Salt prints: Objects |
| 36 | Salt prints: Events |
| Regional |
| 37 | Salt prints: Germany |
| The fading of salt prints |
| 38 | Photographic Society of London: Fading Committee (1855) |
