If you are interested in the early practitioners of photography, google Clonbrock house . Around 1890 the owners of this house (the Dillon family) started using box cameras,going so far as to build a photographic house,
An archive of over 2000 glass plates were donated to the national library of Ireland, who have digitised them . there is one excellent picture of the whole Dillon family with their cameras. The house became a ruin after a fire in the 1970's, Sad
