The ambrotype manual : a practical treatise on the art of taking positive photographs on glass, commonly known as ambrotypes : containing all the various recipes for making collodions; preparation and use of the nitrate bath; developing solutions; varnishes, etc., etc., as practiced by the most successful operators in the United States : to which is added the practice of the negative process and positive photographs on paper / by N.G. Burgess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, N. G. (Nathan G.)

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Photography: The World through the Lens.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Photography: The World through the Lens

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ambrotype.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8-184 pages, 2 unnumbered pages).

Manufacture:

Fulton, N.Y. : R.C. Valentine, stereotyper and electrotypist.

Other Title:

Photography

Place of Publication:

New York : D. Burgess & Co., 1856.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Later editions have title: The photograph manual.

"R.C. Valentine, stereotyper and electrotypist, 17 Dutch-St., cor. Fulton, N.Y."--verso of title page.

Includes index.

Includes advertising matter: [2] p., 2nd count.

Reproduction of the original from the George Eastman House Library.

Local Notes:

Scanned copy has ms. notes on 2 blank leaves following p. [2], 2nd count.

OCLC:

866986505

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.