The American annual of photography . ing up to date. In this collection is a Panorama Daguerro-type. This consists of five plates, of the harbor of San Fran-cisco in 1852. The picture was taken at a time when therewere fourteen hundred vessels rotting in the harbor, becauseall the crews had deserted to go to the gold diggings. KiNETOSCOPE. This, the most wonderful accomplishment of modernphotography, was patented in America in 1896. Thousands ofpeople are constantly employed in their production, andmillions are instructed and amused by their life-like results. The Cameragraph. This is the late
The American annual of photography . ing up to date. In this collection is a Panorama Daguerro-type. This consists of five plates, of the harbor of San Fran-cisco in 1852. The picture was taken at a time when therewere fourteen hundred vessels rotting in the harbor, becauseall the crews had deserted to go to the gold diggings. KiNETOSCOPE. This, the most wonderful accomplishment of modernphotography, was patented in America in 1896. Thousands ofpeople are constantly employed in their production, andmillions are instructed and amused by their life-like results. The Cameragraph. This is the latest Photographic appliance, which instantlyproduces facsimiles of any written or printed page, photo-graph or medallion. It exposes, develops and fixes all theabove mentioned things, entirely within the machine, withoutthe use of a dark-room, plate or film. All the illustrations ofthis article were photographed by the Cameragraph withoutremoving the pictures from their frames. This bringsphotography into practical commercial use. 188. Figure 4. Illustrating article The Evolution of Photography During the Past Fifty Years, by Warren E. Comstock. 189
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