Bearded, hatted man facing left

Samuel John Dixon

Identifier: americanannualof1892newy (find matches)

Title: The American annual of photography

Year: 1892 (1890s)

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Subjects: Photography

Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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o aWS aoo HOPC Cm H WJ H < AND PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES ALMANAC. 215 RAPID PHOTOGRAPHY. The American Annual of Photography must circulateeverywhere. During the past year I have been called upon,many times, for practical information in regard to my methodsof making rapid exposures, and, I am sorry to say, my timehas been so taken up that it has been impossible for me toreply to these numerous inquiries, which were, undoubtedly,addressed to me because of the article which I wrote for lastyears Annual. The description which I will now give, may,in part, atone for this seeming neglect. The photograph of Mr. S. J. Dixon walking on a wire ropestretched across the river below Niagara Falls, was madewith a plate that I had never before tried. What sort of aplate it proved to be will be determined by looking at thereproduction. While in Buffalo at the late P. A. of A. Con-vention, Mr. Carbutt gave me samples of his orthochromaticplates. I had exposed all of the plates which I took with meto Buffa

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