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  2. Historical method - Wikipedia

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    Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...

  3. Wikipedia:Historical portraits and pictures - Wikipedia

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    "Portrait" as a term should be reserved for images intended to accurately depict a real person. Images which are used to illustrate later opinions about a person should be carefully placed in the discussion about those views, lest anyone think the image is an accurate image of the person. Infoboxes do not need images. If no authentic and useful ...

  4. Daguerreotype - Wikipedia

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    Niépce's aim originally had been to find a method to reproduce prints and drawings for lithography. He had started out experimenting with light-sensitive materials and had made a contact print from a drawing and then went on to successfully make the first photomechanical record of an image in a camera obscura – the world's first photograph.

  5. Forensic science reveals how Jesus really looked - AOL

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    The discovery came after researchers evaluated drawings found in various archaeological sites in Israel. Thus the dark skin, eyes and traditional Jewish beard with short, curly hair.

  6. Archaeological illustration - Wikipedia

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    Surveying: To produce an accurate record of sites and buildings and to record accurately where the sites and buildings lie within the landscape. Surveyors use a range of equipment including tapes, plane tables , total stations , 3D scanners , GPS and GIS to produce illustrations including plans , sections and elevations as well as isometric and ...

  7. Art methodology - Wikipedia

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    An art methodology differs from a science methodology, perhaps mainly insofar as the artist is not always after the same goal as the scientist.In art it is not necessarily all about establishing the exact truth so much as making the most effective form (painting, drawing, poem, novel, performance, sculpture, video, etc.) through which ideas, feelings, perceptions can be communicated to a public.

  8. Hand-colouring of photographs - Wikipedia

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    Parallel efforts to produce coloured photographic images affected the popularity of hand-colouring. In 1842 Daniel Davis Jr. patented a method for colouring daguerreotypes through electroplating, [4] and his work was refined by Warren Thompson the following year. The results of the work of Davis and Thompson were only partially successful in ...

  9. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    Image credits: Photoglob Zürich As evident from Niépce's and Maxwell's experiments, and as photographic process historian Mark Osterman told Bored Panda, the processes behind colored photographs ...