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Identifier: americanannualof1918newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1918 (1910s)

Clarence Hudson White  (1871–1925)
	Alternative names	Clarence White; Clarence Hudson White, Sr.; Clarence H. White
	Description	American photographer and university teacher
	Date of birth/death	8 April 1871	7 July 1925
	Location of birth/death	West Carlisle	Mexico City
	Work period	1898
	Authority file	: Q942472 VIAF: 8808149108633068780005 ISNI: 0000000081481539 ULAN: 500025892 LCCN: n77001705 Open Library: OL1806829A WorldCat

Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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illed the home industry. This industrial condition thus caused the whole photo-graphic world to depend upon Germany for developing agents and of course many other organic compounds. Of the many substances capable of developing an image only about seven-teen are in use. Among these hydroquinone and metol are used most generally, for a mixture of the two in proper pro-portions possesses such universal application, yielding at once good results with negatives on plates or films, prints on paper, motion picture films or lantern slides. As the motion picture industry consumes such huge amounts of hydro-metol the supplies of these substances were soon exhausted, and as shipments from Germany ceased the price rapidly mounted until hydroquinone, which was selling as low as fifty cents per pound, was quoted as high as $18.00,so it was said, and metol, which had been $4.50 per pound,was advertised at $6.00 per ounce and $80.00 per pound. The other developers did not rise with the same rapidity nor to 204
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STUDY OF A HEAD. CLARENCE H. WHITE. 205 the same degree, with a few exceptions, but the latter was only after the war had continued for two years. This condition, akin to panic, was entirely uncalled for.The photographers had gotten into a rut and thought good photography was impossible without hydroquinone and metol.The motion picture people especially thought so and were the cause of the abnormally high prices for metol, for their high-salaried laboratory experts failed utterly when put to the test. We know of instances where motion picture producers said that good positives were impossible without hydro-metol and refused to use anything else even when shown results with other well known developers. The painstaking investigations of the photo-chemists, and especially the workof von Huebl, had fallen upon barren ground. All developing substances in use can be made to give similar or identical results so far as negatives are concerned, and for positives, paper, film or glass this also holds tru

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