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Develop Negatives on Flying Train
1901, April
Book illustration
Internet Archive
LL/55565
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, April 1901, Book of the Royal Blue, (Baltimore), vol. IV, no. 7, p. 15
From New York Herald, 5 March 1901 [On the 4th March inauguration of President William McKinley.]
The New York Herald's photographer developing negatives of photographs taken of the inauguration, in baggage car of the "Royal Limited" between Washington and New York, at rate of a mile a minute on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
At the rate of a mile a minute on the Royal Limited of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, leaving Washington yesterday afternoon, photographs of scenes of the inauguration taken especially for the Herald were successfully developed and printed.
The smooth roadbed "made it possible for the photographers to work without danger or damage to the negatives. In the baggage car a black cloth tent thrown over a tripod served as a dark room.
The plates were developed, washed and dried, and the prints made long before the train reached the city, and were in the engravers' hands without retouching on the arrival of the photographers in the Herald office.
Extra negatives, made to provide against failure, were not needed, and the experiment of developing the large and fragile plates was in every sense a success, as is proven by the reproductions appearing in the Herald.
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