Resources

Wet Plate Collodion
The Wetplate Collodion Process — AlternativePhotography.com
https://www.alternativephotography.com/the-wetplate-collodion-process/
A clear, non-technical overview of how the process works from start to finish, written for people who've never coated a plate before.
The Wet Collodion Plate: 16 Steps to Making the Plates — AlternativePhotography.com
https://www.alternativephotography.com/wet-collodion-plate/
A practical, step-by-step walkthrough of an actual plate being coated, sensitized, exposed, and developed, with photos of each stage.
Collodion Process — Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collodion_process
The general reference entry: Frederick Scott Archer's original 1851 process, and how the ambrotype and tintype both branch off from it.

Alternative Photographic Processes
Alternative Photographic Processes A–Z — AlternativePhotography.com
https://www.alternativephotography.com/processes/
The single best index on the open web: a full A–Z of historical processes, cyanotype and gum bichromate through platinum and Van Dyke brown, each with its own page.
Definition of Alternative Photographic Processes — AlternativePhotography.com
https://www.alternativephotography.com/processes/definition-alternative-photographic-processes/
A short primer on what actually makes a process 'alternative' — useful to send to a student before their first workshop.
The Technical History and Chemistry of Platinum and Palladium Printing — Mike Ware
https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/CONSERVATIONUS/f79adbf7-4737-43c9-82a1-92e0d2cc3c1c/UploadedImages/Documents/Groups/PMG/Platinum_Palladium/46-83_Ware_TechnicalHistoryChemistry.pdf
A dense but authoritative academic paper for anyone who wants the full chemistry and history behind platinum printing, not just the workshop version.

History of Photography in Palestine, from 1839
Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection — Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/
Tens of thousands of freely browsable digitized images from the American Colony Photo Department in Jerusalem, spanning roughly 1898 to 1946.
Photography Collections — National Library of Israel
https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/photos/collectionsThe Library's own searchable photo collections, including the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, with material reaching back to the 19th century.
A Glimpse of 19th Century Jerusalem — National Library of Israel Blog
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/19th-century-jerusalem/
A short, readable essay by an NLI curator on the earliest photographs of the city, good as a quick introduction before diving into an archive.
Imaging and Imagining Palestine: Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens, 1918–1948
https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-49753
A full, free, open-access academic book covering the Mandate-era decades in depth — the natural next step after the shorter introductions above.

Jewish Photographers in Palestine, Pre-1948
Mendel Diness — Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendel_Diness
The Jerusalem watchmaker who became the city's first resident photographer in the 1850s, and whose story and photographs were only rediscovered generations later.
Ya'acov Ben-Dov — Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%27acov_Ben-Dov
A Kiev-trained photographer who settled in Jerusalem in 1907, taught at the Bezalel Academy, and went on to film Allenby's 1917 entry into the city.
Zoltan Kluger — Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoltan_Kluger
A Hungarian press photographer who fled to Palestine in 1933 and spent fifteen years documenting Jewish National Fund projects and daily life, leaving behind roughly 50,000 negatives now held in Israeli state archives.
Rudi Weissenstein — Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Weissenstein
Founder of Tel Aviv's Photo House Pri-Or and the sole official photographer at Israel's 1948 Declaration of Independence — his archive and studio are still open today.