"2 leggotype half-tones (1st patent) from photographs of the moon. William Augustus Leggo, and The Graphic Co., produced the original cuts. One of the earliest uses of relief half-tone in the United States, this example may be preceded only by...
Hood, Caleb C. -- Portraits; Garret, Thomas -- Portraits; Lewis, James -- Portraits; Dannaker, James -- Portraits; Underground railroad -- Pennsylvania; African Americans -- Pennsylvania; Portrait photography -- United States; Chester County (Pa.)...
"...4 are half-tones from photographs...Below each half-tone is: 'Ives' Process, Pat'd Feb. 8, 1881, Crosscup & West, Phila.,' [which predates Pagoda Shadows (1884), long thought to be] the first book published with Ives half-tones..."--Hanson...
Caracalla, Emperor of Rome, 188-217 -- Portraits; Photography of sculpture; Sculpture, Roman; Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel; Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities
"3 half-tones from photographs of sculpture...Many early examples have the half-tones printed on sheets, separate from the text, which is not the case here...Half-tones printed best on smooth calendered paper that was glossy; since magazines prior...
"...2 three-color half-tones from art, 1 photolithograph with tints from scenery...3 color: The Heintsmann Press, Boston, "Phusochrome" by A.C. Austin Eng. Co., Albany. The sample of the Fine Art Printing Co. looks much like the souvenir books from...
The American amateur photographer "was the start of Alfred Stieglitz's editorial career: he joined this publication as an editor in July of this year. He began to change the direction of this magazine by becoming more "selective" in what would be...
Documentary photography -- France -- Paris -- 19th century; Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871; Place Vendome (Paris, France); Rue de Rivoli (Paris, France)
In: Paris' ruiner : med tre fotografiska gravyrer efter Carlemans system / C.G.W. Carleman. Stockholm : Iwar Hæggströms boktryckeri, 1871 -- Title supplied by cataloger
Natural history -- Outdoor books; Botanical illustration
"...The most startling half-tones are...where the photograph of eye glasses and a beetle are superimposed directly over the type as if they were directly on the page. The ability to cut text and image in this way was a radical step..."--Hanson...
Castillo de San Felipe del Morro (San Juan, P.R.); Palacio de Gobierno (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba); Palacio de Gobierno (Saint Croix, V.I.); West Indies -- Description and travel; Saint Croix (V.I.); Ponce (P.R.); Martinique; Saint-Pierre...
"27 half-tones of photographs of the West Indies, many with a supplemental border in a second ink color. This copy has plate 9 in facsimile."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 135
McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885; Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916; Hawley, Joseph W; Bolton, William, J., 1833-1906; Bosbyshell, Oliver Christian, b. 1839; Oliver, Robert Shaw; Boyle, John Richards;
Holman, Samuel H; Evans,...
"26 photolithograph half-tones with tint plate in both screen and random dot. Photographs of personages, scenery and statues. Photolithograph in screened and random dot half-tone by Julius Bien & Co., New York."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 138
Documentary photography -- Washington (D.C.); United States. Patent Office
"2 Half-tones (planographic) from photographs of the U.S. Patent Office Building. Clear dot pattern from a cross-line screen, or a single line crossed during exposure...Heliotype Printing Co., Boston (half-tones)."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 57
China -- Social life and customs; China; Ethnology -- China
"12 half-tone illustrations...from photographs of life in China. Crosscup and West, Philadelphia, did the half-tones using Ives' first patent. This publication is the first of the Ives process books to incorporate the half-tones with the text. The...
"...a modified photograph "The Rabbit Trap" by Gibson. Gibson identifies the engraving co. as Crosscup and West in an article quoted by Estelle Jussim in Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts...This again is one of the earliest Ives [patent]...
"1 three-color half-tone of a photograph of a stuffed bird by Coloritype Co., New York. The three-color half-tone by Kurtz' company was one of the first three that have so far been identified as having been produced in publications in...
One of "120 three-color Half-tone illustrations from photographs of stuffed birds. Plates by the Chicago Colortype Co., Chicago, Ill...This undertaking was the most ambitious three-color work to this date. These plates were also some of the most...
Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902 -- Portraits; Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902 -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Yosemite Valley; Phillips, Nathan B. -- Portraits; Portrait photography -- United States; Waterfalls --...
"1 phototype by Gutekunst, 1 heliotype by Heliotype Printing Co., 2 Artotypes by Bierstadt, 21 Photo-typos by Britton & Rey, S.F., 4 half-tones by Moss Engraving Co., 4 half-tones by Heliotype Printing Co., 3 unidentified half-tones...contains an...
"17 half-tone plates, the frontispiece, a portrait of the author, the remainder photographs of Mayan temples and bas-relief...[this copy] is one of the earliest half-tone books in the United States. John Moss's method of half-tone was a secret one...
Musée de Cluny; Art industries and trade; Decoration and ornament; Buffets. aat
"...Grained half-tones from photographs. These relief half-tones are claimed by Marbot to be by Garnier and Salmon's process."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 25
Grained halftone from photograph. "These relief half-tones are claimed by Marbot to be by Garnier and Salmon's process."--Hanson collection catalog, p. 25
Grained halftone from photograph. "These relief half-tones are claimed by Marbot to be by Garnier and Salmon's process."--Hanson collection catalog, p. 25