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Rare Books & Archival Collections Reference Guide

Identifying Images

Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes (Getty Center)

Graphics Atlas How to identify print processes.

How to Identify Prints : A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Ink Jet. By Bamber Gascoigne, 1986. London: Thames and Hudson. Find a copy in the Library.

The Print in the Western World : An Introductory History. By Linda C. Hults, 1996. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press. Find a copy in the Library

Timeline of Printmaking Techniques (Relief / Intaglio / Planographic): A brief history of historical book illustration techniques produced for the Anatomia online exhibit by the University of Toronto.

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