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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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EARLY MORNING. JAMES THOMSON. 1^ 1I METOL AS AN INTENSIFIER By JAMES THOMSON. ETOL with sulphite of soda alone as an acceleratordoes excellent service as an intensifier of gas-light and bromide paper prints—a fact that forsome reason has never had adequate emphasis.It is one of the simplest, cleanest, and most effi-cient methods of strengthening the silver image where theblue-black qualities of the original metallic deposit one wouldfain retain. The omission of the customarily employed alkali, such as sodaor potash, reduces danger of blisters developing in the subse-quent washing should operations be conducted in hot summerweather. This I deem a great point gained, in view of the factthat many a valued print has thus been in an instant sacrificedthrough softening of the film due to the presence of the alkaliin the developing solution with whidi blackening has beeneffected, when attempt has been made to strengthen the image.Most any mercury black will answer, the followmg, how-ever,

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