Technology of Photographic Imaging
The Museum of the History of Science has a small but fine collection of cameras, early photographic lenses and accessories, and darkroom equipment. In all there are about eight hundred items covering a wide spectrum of photographic history

Ted's Photographics - Camera Designs
some history on early photographers and camera design

The American Daguerreotype
A Great Article on the daguerreotype written as a thesis, entitled "The Social Construction of the American Daguerreotype Portrait 1839-1860" by Ben Mattison

The Correspondence of William Henry Fox
The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project has prepared a comprehensive edition of the nearly 10,000 letters to and from Talbot (1800-1877), the Wiltshire polymath best known for his invention of photography. Draft transcriptions of nearly all the letters were posted by September 2003 and these are now being further edited and annotated.

The History and Evolution of the Camera
Antique and classic cameras, vintage photographs, and the history of photography.

The magic lantern Society
The site contains a History of the Lantern, membership details, society publications, lantern events, ABC of the Lantern, animations, links and lots of lantern images