The Project Gutenberg E-text of American Handbook of the Daguerrotype

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Author

Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight), 1823-1883

Title

American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype

Credits

Produced by Gregory Walker, for the Digital Daguerreian Archive Project.

Language

English

LoC Class

TR: Technology: Photography

Subject

Daguerreotype

Category

Text

eBook-No.

167

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/167

Release Date

September 1, 1994

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AMERICAN HAND BOOK OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE — GIVING THE MOST APPROVED AND CONVENIENT METHODS FOR PREPARING THE CHEMICALS, AND THE COMBINATIONS USED IN THE ART. — CONTAINING THE DAGUERREOTYPE, ELECTROTYPE, AND VARIOUS OTHER PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN TAKING HELIOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS.
2. 2.BY S. D. HUMPHREY — FIFTH EDITION — NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY S. D. HUMPHREY 37 LISPENARD STREET 1858 — To J. GURNEY, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL SKILL, SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY, AND ENERGETIC PERSEVERANCE, HAVE WON FOR HIM UNIVERSAL ESTEEM, THIS WORK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS — AMERICAN HAND-BOOK of THE DAGUERREOTYPE.
5. 5.CHAPTER I.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. — MISCELLANEOUS.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. — CHEMICALS. — BROMINE. — IODINE. — CHLORINE. — CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM. — HYPOSULPHITE OF SODA. — ACCELERATING SUBSTANCES. — DRY SENSITIVES.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — LIGHT AND OPTICS.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. — TO MAKE PLATES FOR THE DAGUERREOTYPE. — M. SOLIEL’S PROCESS FOR DETERMINING THE TIME OF EXPOSURE IN THE CAMERA. — INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS FOR PROCURING DAGUERREOTYPES. — GALVANIZING THE DAGUERREOTYPE PLATE. — SILVERING SOLUTION. — DAGUERREOTYPES WITHOUT MERCURY. — MANAGEMENT OF CHEMICALS. — HINTS AND CAUTIONS. — ELECTROTYPING. — CRAYON DAGUERREOTYPES. — ILLUMINATED DAGUERREOTYPES. — NATURAL COLORS IN HELIOGRAPHY. — MULTIPLYING DAGUERREOTYPES ON ONE PLATE. — DEPOSIT IN GILDING. — PRACTICAL HINTS ON THE DAGUERREOTYPE. — THE CAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTY THAT SOMETIMES OCCURS TO PREVENT THE PRODUCTION OF A CLEAR IMPRESSION UPON A DAGUERREOTYPE PLATE. — CHOICE OF PLATES, ETC.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — HUMPHREY’S JOURNAL OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE & PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS. — TERMS. — THE PRACTICAL MANUAL OF THE COLLODION PROCESS. BY S. D. HUMPHREY. THIRD EDITION — A GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHY, — HOLMES, BOOTH & HAYDENS’ CAMERAS — SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO. — SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO. — HARDWICH’S PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMISTRY AMERICAN EDITION.

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