Written in 1899, here in everything you would need to know on how to take photos, and the rest of the processes involved as at the time.
Sections on apparatus, aims, plates and films, exposure, treatment of special subjects, developers, development, fixing, washing, and varnishing negatives, intensifies and reducers, preparing negatives for printing, printing papers, printing, mounting and framing, photography in hot climates, lantern slides and enlarging, etc.
Contains plates and illustrations, you get 155 pages plus 56 pages of fascinating illustrated advertisements. It is an ideal book if you want to learn more about an ancestor who was a photographer, and the processes involved.
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.