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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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as one JohnWood. From the fact that his pay was the same as that ofthe draughtsmen, it is evident that his position was one ofimportance, resembling a profession rather than a craft. To the credit of Captain Meigs, it should be said that his interestin all of the branches of work under his control was more thanperfunctory, and his long communications with painters, sculp-tors, architects and engineers, reveal him as a man of pro-nounced ability, and possessed of a faculty of getting down to the elemen-al condition of the affairs under his charge. I am e-ending an extract from one of the many letters whichprove this quality. In the midst of his strenuous duties hehad found the time to dabble with photography, and had sentsamples of bis work to a friend residing in Philadelphia, Cole-man Sellers, who in a letter in reply under date of SeptemberII, 1859, sends a stereogram printed upon albumen paper, one-half of which is sent as an illustration. From this letter I amfurnishing extracts: 98
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TITO. Copyright, 1908, H. B. Cotigers.HARRY B. CONGERS. I have been experimenting with a new toning bath whichseems to me to work wonders with albumen prints. I amsending you one that you may judge of the tone produced.Process is thus: Print a good deal darker than usual, almostto the coppery stage of reduction. Throw the prints fromthe frame into a dish of water containing a little chloride ofammonium, let them lay in this until you are done prtntmg forthe day. Wash them in running water to take off the salt.Make a toning bath thus: 12 grains of chloride of lime in12 ounces of water, shake well and strain through cloth, add5 grains of chloride of gold in one ounce of water. Lay yourprints in one by one. By the time you have about thirty in youwill find that the first one is toned, which will be in less thanone minute. Turn the prints over and put them, one by one,in a plain hypo bath to clear. It is essential that all the freenitrate of silver be removed before toning. The photograph

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