The American annual of photography . TOWNSEND HARRIS HALL, CITY COLLEGE NEW YORK, IN HEAVY SNOW-STORM. haswell c. jeffery. 203. WAR vs. DEVELOPING AGENTS By HENRY F. RAESS SITUATION unique in the history of photog-raphy was caused by the great European con-flict. Practically all of the agents used for pro-ducing an image on plates, films and paperafter exposure are (or were) made in , which was first used by Abney in 1880, wasat that time very expensive, costing several dollars per rapid growth of amateur photography in the UnitedStates, and the high price for thi
The American annual of photography . TOWNSEND HARRIS HALL, CITY COLLEGE NEW YORK, IN HEAVY SNOW-STORM. haswell c. jeffery. 203. WAR vs. DEVELOPING AGENTS By HENRY F. RAESS SITUATION unique in the history of photog-raphy was caused by the great European con-flict. Practically all of the agents used for pro-ducing an image on plates, films and paperafter exposure are (or were) made in , which was first used by Abney in 1880, wasat that time very expensive, costing several dollars per rapid growth of amateur photography in the UnitedStates, and the high price for this substance, induced chemicalmanufacturers to make it here and the price soon fell (to ninetycents per ounce in 1883). Meanwhile Germany built up anenormous organic chemical industry in which many millionsin money were invested. The crude organic products wereeasily converted into those bodies familiarly known as devel-opers. This, and the difference in the price of labor, enabledthem to undersell our home producers of hydroquinone andso killed the home industry. This industrial condition thus caused the whole photo-graph
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