Well, things started with Nicéphore Niépce in the 1820's, but that's too early. Hippolyte Bayard announced his process about the same time as Talbot and Daguerre, and in the early 1840's, Sir John Herschel created Cyanotypes, Chrysotypes (a gold-based process), Phytotypes (based on light sensitive vegetable oils), and an early version of platinum printing. Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor (nephew of Nicéphore Niépce) created albumen-on-glass negatives (Niépceotypes) in 1847...
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