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...
"25 heliotype plates showing the ship, Sigsbee's sounding machines and various deck photographs of how to place it in operation. Plates are marked by The Heliotype Printing Co., 220 Devonshire St., Boston."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 72
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...
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...
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,...
De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881; Jeannette (Ship); Jeanette Expedition (1879-1881); Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions; Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel; Lena River Valley (Russia) -- Description and travel
Four collotypes from photographs of memorial wreaths, coffins, and the railroad car that transported the remains of those lost on the Jeanette expedition
Seaton, William Winston, 1785-1866 -- Portraits; Portraits. aat
"Plumbe made very few of these lithographic copies of daguerreotypes, he claimed that these prints were directly transferred from the pictures that he had taken: they appear to be relatively crude copies."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 11
"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...
Bradford, Lodowick Harrington, 1820-1885 -- Portraits; Lithographers -- United States -- Portraits; Portraits. aat
"1 photolithograph (chine collee) of a portrait of L.H. Bradford, the inventor of this photolithographic process. The portrait of Bradford is possibly a self-portrait and may have been one of his in-camera studies. This important image is the...
Book contains "sixteen indotype illustrations from art and photographs of town and environs. Photographs are duplicated in the later Plymouth book in photogravure. American Photo-L. Co., N.Y. blind stamped on two plates. The American...
"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 Woodburytype from an engraving [by] American Photo-Relief Printing Co., Philadelphia [and attributed to] John Carbutt, supt. Photo stated on mount to be by Bell."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 51
Geology -- Rocky Mountains; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Discoveries in geography -- United States
"The two engraved maps by F.W. Egloffstein are in a new manner for 1861...The maps were ruled by Samuel Sartain...These maps demonstrate the idea of lighting objects from the side and showing the variations of tone through the use of ruled...
"3 three-color half-tone prints, one from nature, one from nature tinted, and one from art. MacFarlane Anderson's "Phusochrome", "Afar in the forest" is one. 1 photogravure from Photo. Phusochrome printed by Albany Engraving Co., Albany, N.Y....
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 -- Homes and haunts; Baylis, Abraham Burtis, 1811-1882 -- Homes and haunts; Bedford (Westchester County, N.Y.); North Salem (N.Y.); Doane, A. Sidney (Augustus Sidney), 1808-1852 -- Homes and haunts; Putnam County...
"5 Plates with 14 engravings, 12 illustrations from art and 2 from photographs...These plates were created by Frederick W. von Egloffstein's Heliographic Eng. Co., 135 West 25th St., N.Y. George Rockwood, N.Y., is credited as the photographer on...
