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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (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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venture I tried out with success the following: Hinged to the north wall of the dark room about six inchesbelow the ceiling, and when not in use lying flat against thewall, was a frame 30 inches wide and 10 feet long, twicecross-braced and corners reinforced. The whole was coveredfrom the top with two-inch mesh chicken wire. When readyfor use the frame was pulled up to its proper place againstthe ceiling, as the films taken afler being cleaned from the 202 wash tank were clipped. The hook in the dip was sHppedover the wire mesh and hung in its proper position withouttouching its neighbor. Care must be taken, however, to shutoff the ventilating fan and arrange against strong draughtfor its working success. The large frame or screen in the window was redesignedto take all the ruby, green and orange glass it would accom-modate. This enabled one to develop by daylight. (Westlight softened by large buildings loo feet distant.) The con-stant and insistent demand for enlargements on Cyko and
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FIG. 2. Showing Type of Lamp Box Used in Printing and Dark Rooms, Artura, which shows no grain, and the beautiful effects pro-duced in sepia on Cyko buff was sufficient to cause me to putin a daylight enlarging apparatus in this room. To theceiling was arranged a grooved carrier, made by RichardsonWilcox Company, used ordinarily for sliding doors. I utilizedthe idea given me by a friend and arranged a movable screenor easel, which when not in use can be readily stored. Havinga rule affecting the size of enlargements I make, not over20 X 24. The cost and arrangement need not be expensive,but is entirely practical and successful. Perhaps at a leisure 203 lime I will transfer this to my bromide room, which up tothis has been reserved for the making of bromides, lanternslides and transparencies, and which owing to the apparatusinstalled did not permit the new idea to yet become a perma-nent fixture. From the previous description given, the present enlargingapparatus did not differ to any

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