Wilson, Edward L. (Edward Livingston), 1838-1903 -- Portraits; Detchon, Adelaide -- Portraits; Photomechanical processes
"2 Phototype illustrations, by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, a portrait of Wilson and a composite of portraits of Adelaide Detchon. The same portrait of Wilson was used for the Ives process half-tone in 1881. The text acknowledges that Gutekunst uses...
"Possibly a plate made by Placet ca. 1859. This print bears a very strong resemblance to Placet's first attempts and is a very early and unusual French example. The small size coupled with the coarseness of the grain and the emphasis on the...
"1 Woodburytype illustration from a photograph A Mountain-Dew Girl: Killarney, by H.P. Robinson. This is Woodbury's first published example, still considered experimental."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 30
"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...
"Single sheet...Advertisement for a series of 6 albertypes on 11 x 14 paper. Though not the plates themselves, this item, along with the other Hooper published items in this collection shows how much the railroad used photography as a sales...
"9 Albertypes from photographs and art by M'Glashon, Edinburgh. These extremely early Albertypes are some of the first produced anywhere outside of Germany. [This is] the only book so far to come to light illustrated by M'Glashon."--Hanson...
"One Baxter print from art [of 2 women and a baby beside a stream]. George Baxter invented and patented a process to print in color from a single engraving which was then overprinted from wood blocks in color. He eventually patented a method to use...
"...three of the earliest attempts at illustrating the principles and results of the photographic process. The [wood engraving] negative-positive example of April 13, is the first pictorial example of the concept. The facsimile of the photogenic...
Photomechanical processes; Lugano (Switzerland); Lugano, Lake (Switzerland and Italy)
"1 three-color half-tone, 1 three-color collotype...is of interest because of the two color prints that are present. The first is a three-color half-tone by Dr. R.D. Grey [sic], of New York, who was an antagonist of Frederick Ives because of his...
Photoengraving -- Halftone process; Photomechanical processes; Town Hall (Kempten, Germany); Immenstadt im Allgau (Germany); Oberstdorf (Germany)
"12 Half-tone plates from photographs and art. Excellent description with very clear explanation of the formation of the dot on the negative and the importance of the shape of the stop and its distance. Plates made by students at the Practical...
Photomechanical processes -- History -- 19th century; Photography -- History -- 19th century; Crystal Palace (London, England); Chateau de Fontainebleau (Fontainebleau, France); Musee du Louvre; Sculpture, Medieval -- France -- Reims; Notre-Dame de...
"...20 plates: 3 salt prints (La Parnasse, Raphael; Le Concert de Famille; La Kaire, planche 7), 1 heliogravure of Cardinal Amboise by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1 photolithograph of sculpture, Procede Poitevin, 2 photolithographs from art, Zurcher...
"1 Photolithograph (of 12) of a fiddler who turns his head and bows the violin. This motoscope is the only one this collector has ever seen or heard about. Only the ad for the device has ever been noted and no stereo history source has ever...
"The various methods [of printing represented] are Phototypie (collotype), Heliogravure, Photoglyptie (Woodburytype), Similgravure (Half-tone), Photogravure, Photo-Chromo-Typographie. This catalogue contains examples by most of the major French...
"Four Mezzotint engravings by John Sartain ... [are loose plates from] The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Vol. III of the United Series"--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 9
