Edward M. Estabrooke

Edward M. Estabrooke was a 19th-century photographer and photography writer. Reliable catalog and edition records for his work identify him as the author of The Ferrotype and How to Make It and Photography in the Studio and in the Field, a practical manual published in 1887 for both professional and amateur photographers.

His writing is especially interesting because it sits at a turning point in photographic history. Photography in the Studio and in the Field covers studio practice, field work, lenses, cameras, printing, and darkroom processes, showing how photographers were working as older wet-plate methods overlapped with newer dry-plate techniques.

Wikimedia Commons authority data also describes Estabrooke as a photographer active in the United States, with a studio location at Union Square in New York in 1871. Clear biographical details beyond his photographic work are hard to confirm from the sources reviewed here, so the safest picture is of a hands-on practitioner whose books helped explain the craft in plain, usable terms.