"4 albertype plates as extracted from Albertype view books scenery and portraits. Rear cover is an albertype collage of 12 Albertype view books. The Albertype Company, 67 & 69 Spring Street, New York. This very fine small catalogue by the Albertype...
Photoengraving; Chicago Auditorium Building (Chicago, Ill.)
"12 photo-engravings from art and photographs. 12 half-tone illustrations from photographs and art. Photo Engraving Co., 67 to 71 Park Place, New York. John Hastings, Pres., A.R. Hart, Man., Jos. Tripp, Vice Pres. [This is] an early published...
"Sales brochure, for half-tone and line work, states company was formed in 1867. Some instructions on inside of rear cover relate to art work for half-tone and line. J. Manz & Company, 183-5-7 Monroe Street, Chicago, Ill. A very fine sample...
Numismatics; Coinage; Money; Mint of the United States. Assay Office
"1 medal engraving from a daguerreotype, by Joseph Saxton, of the front of the Mint, using a medal ruling machine, to copy a relief executed by Christian Gobrecht from the daguerreotype...16 plates of coins ruled directly from electrotypes of...
"The illustration and explanation of the use of a shading machine, the "Skiagraph," is most interesting. [Includes] examples of photo-engraving as well as equipment."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 94
Company's sales brochure describing the services they offer for line engraving, half-tone engraving, three & four color half-tone processes, and embossing dies
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...
"1 plate with two engravings: the first is from the original engraved plate, the second from an electrotype made from it ... The electrotype process was important in photomechanical printing in that it was first used to copy daguerreotypes and was...
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Portraits; George, Saint, d. 303; Diogenes, d. ca. 323 B.C; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Portraits; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge; Raphael (Archangel);...
Includes "28 Heliotype illustrations from a number of methods, each designed to highlight various applications of the process...This book was prepared in conjunction with Osgood's display at the Centennial in Philadelphia. All of the plates are...
