Author: Reilly, James M.
Title: Care and Identification of Nineteenth Century Photographic Prints
Description: Rochester, NY, Eastman Kodak Company, 1986. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wrap. xii, 116 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm + 1 folded leaf. The history of photographic printing in the 19th century. The earliest photographic prints: Photogenic drawings ; Salted paper prints: 1840-1855 ; The albumen print: 1850-1895 ; Non-silver papers: 1860-1900 ; Technical advances in silver printing papers: 1880-1900 ; Bromide developing-out paper: 1885-1900 ; Emulsion-type printing-out papers: 1885-1900 ; Contact-speed developing-out papers: late 1890s. -- The component materials of 19th-century prints and their forms of deterioration. Final image materials ; Binders ; Paper supports ; Secondary supports ; Surface treatments and adhesives ; Preservation problems related to the laminate structure of photographic prints. -- Stability of specific print materials. Salted paper prints ; Albumen prints ; Platinotypes ; Cyanotypes ; Carbon prints, woodburytypes, and gum bichromate prints ; Collodion printing-out papers ; Gelatin printing-out papers ; Gelatin developing-out papers. Inscribed by Reilly. VG. Light bumping at fore edge corners.

Keywords: Photography ; Conservation / Identification ; ;


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