It featured work by notable photographers such as Elmer Chickering and Imogen Cunningham and articles about the photography industry.
Previously Wilson had produced a magazine called The Philadelphia Photographer which appeared from 1864 through December 1888.
That magazine often featured tipped in frontispiece photographic prints created by Philadelphia photographer John Moran.
[1] Wilson's Photographic continued this work for a wider audience.
In 1915 the magazine was renamed The Photographic Journal of America which ran until 1923.