Through Shen-Kan is the account of a 1908-09 expedition to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China. The expedition was funded by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark was joined by the...
Indians of North America -- Dwellings; Indians of North America -- Social life and customs; Architectural photography -- New Mexico; Pueblo architecture -- New Mexico; Pueblos -- New Mexico; Pueblo Indians -- New Mexico; Taos Pueblo (N.M.); Wolpi...
"4 Heliotype illustrations from photographs of Pueblos. [This is] another example of the Heliotype Company's dominance in government printing. These four views of Indian pueblos are fine examples of the various photographers' work."--Hanson...
Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus; Guild, Curtis, 1860-1915 -- Portraits; Riddle, George -- Portraits; Opdycke, L. E. -- Portraits; Norman, Henry, 1858-1939 -- Portraits; Lane, G. M. -- Portraits; Manning, W. H. -- Portraits; Wendell, E. J. -- Portraits;...
"15 Heliotype plates of photographs of the cast and the play in rehearsal. 'The groups were photographed on the stage of the Sanders theater with electric light;...are believed to constitute the most extensive piece of photography of this kind...
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...
Porter, John A. (John Addison), 1822-1866 -- Portraits; Portrait photography -- United States; Portraits
"1 Carbon print portrait of Addison from a photograph [frontispiece]. [This is] a very early use of carbon printing in the United States, predating The American Carbon Manual by Edward Wilson, 1868, and the 1870 examples by Allen and Rowell of...
Sands, Edward; Landscape photography -- Maine; Portrait photography -- United States; Mount Desert Island (Me.) -- Description and travel; Maine
Includes "21 autoglyph illustrations [by W.P. Allen] from photographs at Mount Desert, Maine, and a portrait. W.P. Allen, of West Gardner, purchased Artotype patent rights [in] 1879...Chandler identifies the Autoglyph with the Indotype...
Photography -- Early works to 1850; Photography -- Scientific applications
"1 facsimile of a photogenic drawing of ferns (done on the block) as a plate [to illustrate an article serialized by Dr. Golding Bird "A Treatise on Photogenic Drawing" reprinted from the Magazine of Natural History, p. 234-44]...printed in rust to...
War photography -- Egypt; Egypt -- History -- British occupation, 1882-1936; Great Britain -- History, Military -- 19th century; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Buildings, structures, etc
"32 collotypes from photographs of ravages of bombardment. The type style for plate identification here is identical to those in the edition published in 1883 where the plates are...by the Heliotype Printing Co., Boston. The collotype method,...
"20 collotype plates from photographs of New Zealand, South Sea Natives, photomicrographs, and two portraits of the author. The Lewis Co., Boston, did the collotype prints. This is the only book by this company thus far identified. The book notes...
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...
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...
Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.); Fortification -- Florida -- St. Augustine; Architectural photography -- Florida -- St. Augustine; St. Augustine (Fla.) -- History; St. Augustine (Fla.) -- Buildings, structures, etc; Florida -- History
"1 Artotype of a photograph of coquina (a matrix of shells) over the boards to make the cover. 12 Artotype plates with 13 photographs of St. Augustine. E. Bierstadt [firm] did the plates from negatives by E. Bierstadt for the coquina; W.A. Cox and...
Lick Observatory; Wells, Fargo & Company; Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.); Palace Hotel (San Francisco, Calif.); California State Capitol (Sacramento, Calif.); Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel, Calif.); Mission San Xavier del Bac (Tucson,...
Includes "49 half-tone illustrations of coastal scenery on 30 plates with two litho tints. Half-tones produced by Forbes Co., Boston; the photographers represented are Watkins, Taber, Tibbit[t]s, [Fiske]...This little book of photolithographic...
Architectural photography -- Great Britain; Fakenham (England)
Contains "12 Woodburytype illustrations of photographs around Fakenham, England...This kind of simple souvenir production in Woodburytype is not at all common in England."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 106
Yellowstone National Park; Wyoming;Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (Wyo.); Yellowstone River (Wyo.); Old Faithful Geyser (Wyo.); Landscape photography -- Wyoming; Geysers -- Yellowstone National Park; Waterfalls -- Yellowstone National Park;...
"25 Photogravure plates with 32 illustrations, by the Photo-Gravure Co., New York, from photographs of Yellowstone scenery by F. Jay Haynes, Fargo. These photogravures, from Haynes negatives, are much moodier and deeper in tone than the subsequent...
