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...
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...
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...
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...
City and County Hall (Buffalo, N.Y.); St. Paul's Church (Buffalo, N.Y.); Board of Trade Building (Buffalo, N.Y.); Music Hall (Buffalo, N.Y.); Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- New York (State) -- Buffalo; Railroad bridges -- New York (State) --...
"14 collotypes from photographs of views around Buffalo. George Barker, Niagara Falls, N.Y. The unsigned collotypes in this souvenir publication are expertly produced. Some of Barker's pictures [commissioned] for this book are superb."--Hanson...
"1 mezzotint engraving from 'a Talbotype' of Hugh Miller. Photograph by Hill and Adamson (uncredited), engraved by John Sartain."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 15
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...
Springs -- New York (State); Saratoga Springs (N.Y.)
"1 collotype from a photograph 'South Broadway in 1872'...Bierstadt referred to his early work as photo-plates as did the Boston Albert-type Co."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 42
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...
"1 Dallas Photoelectric Engraving of 'The Moon' taken Sept. 1854 [by the photographers] Messrs. John Hart[n]up and J.A. Forrest. Duncan Dallas was the plant superintendent for the Photo-Galvano-Graphic company ... [who made] photoelectric...
"1 photolithograph, with tint, "Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt at home,"...is printed in black and tan. ...one of the earliest attempts to print a photograph in a large circulation magazine."--Hanson Collection catalogue, p. 55
"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...
