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Title: Portrait
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Ansco Company
Subjects: Photography
Publisher: (Binghamton, N.Y. : Ansco Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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decided to investthe above amount in a massive silver pitcher of ap-propriate design to be awarded as a prize for the fourbest daguerreotypes that shall be offered for competitionprevious to November 1, 1853. It is quite evident that the fathers of photography inthis country, Edw. Anthony and W. Irving Adams,both founders of the Ansco Company, were fully aliveto the fact that prize incentives would do much toaccelerate the development and growth of the art ofphotography. The prizes offered then by them wereof considerably more value intrinsically and otherwisethan those given at photographic conventions nowadays. The Photographic Dealers AssociationConvention The convention of the P. D. A. of A. will be heldin Rochester, N. Y., March 24, 25 and 26. A com-prehensive program is being prepared and a furtherannouncement will be made through the photographicpress. All interested dealers are invited to communi-cate with the secretary, Wm. Hartman, 1442 ThirdAvenue, New York City. 2 Portrait
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The stimulus of Ansco in the last century Portrait How to Manage Very Small Habies FELIX RAYMER WE are asked frequently for a way to managevery small babies who are not old enough toknow what is doing. We all know that thefirst baby is brought to the studio at a very early dateafter his arrival on this planet; the second does notmake his appearance quite so soon, and the third is stillslower about getting in, and so on until after a time thebabys picture is not made until he is no longer a baby.But it is the first baby that the parents are more par-ticular about and it is up to the operator to do his bestto please. It has been our experience that an ordinary high-chair, such as is used for the baby when he is firstbrought to the table, is about the best accessory for theholding of the baby in position. The arms of thechair gives his back a support, and the chair being highgets him up high enough so that the camera does nothave to be lowered so much as to make it impossiblefor the oper

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