Unidentified photographer / artist 1870s Photographic equipment
Engraving 11 x 14 ins
Provided by the artist - Mark Osterman The source of this engraving is unknown and we would like to learn more about it. The original volume had at least 12 charts each 11 x 14 ins.
Comments from Mark Osterman (pers. Comm. 29 March 2010) on portable darkrooms:
Some years ago France [Scully] and I acquired an encyclopedic set of line art charts showing all photographic related apparatus used during the collodion and very early gelatin era. These have evidently been gleaned from many other sources by the original publisher in the 1870s. It includes 12 [maybe more] 11x14" engravings, each on a different photographic topic showing dozens of line art representations of equipment on each page. It includes hundreds of pieces of equipment .. From trays to collodion pouring bottles, studios, cameras, lenses, tripods to portable darkrooms etc. We hope to have a facsimile folio for sale by the middle of the summer. I think most people will see this as a Rosetta stone resource.
