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...
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]...
Printing -- Periodicals; Printing industry -- Periodicals; International Printing Pressmen's Union of North America; Boston Typographical Union, No. 13 (now Local 13)
"Four specimen Half-tones by various companies, [plus] others in the text and 1 in an ad. Prints by J.E. Mangan Printing Co., Blomgren Brothers & Co., Chicago, J. Manz & Co., Chicago, Crosscup & West, Phila., Moss Eng., NY. These trade publications...
