This project explores women’s contributions to the field of early photography through the case study of the pioneering chemist, Elizabeth Fulhame (fl. 1794). Fulhame undertook her protophotographic experiments in 1780s Edinburgh and published her chemical treatise with the support of Joseph Priestley in 1794. By 1798, she was elected a ‘corresponding’ member of the Chemical Society of Philadelphia, and in 1810 an American edition of her work was published in Philadelphia by James Humphreys. Although her contributions to the field of chemistry are well-established, her significance for early photography remains under-researched. This archival research project locates Fulhame in a network of protophotographers from Scotland to Philadelphia across a range of consortium holdings. In doing so, it not only proposes to disrupt the established narrative of the invention of photography and its association with individual (often male) ‘greats’ but places her work in a new context of proto-photography and proto-feminism.