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Tin Can
19-Jun-2020, 05:18
Just got this one on FakeBook from a post by Dan Colucci in closed private group, Antique & Classic Camera and Lens Group

This is one reason I rejoined FB




1855 book, "Plain directions for obtaining photographic pictures..." by J.H. Croucher. This book is online to view for free https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100588452

paulbarden
19-Jun-2020, 06:45
The two most often cited historic Wet Plate Collodion manuals are Towler’s “The Silver Sunbeam” and Waldack & Neff’s “ Treatise of Photography On Collodion”, both of which can be found on the web. Both contain a great deal of useful information, though parsing the content requires some effort, as they are definitely written in the style of the period.

Towler, The Silver Sunbeam (https://archive.org/details/silversunbeampra00towluoft/mode/2up)

Waldack & Neff, Treatise of Photography On Collodion (https://ia600200.us.archive.org/3/items/treatiseofphotog00waldrich/treatiseofphotog00waldrich.pdf)

Tin Can
19-Jun-2020, 14:15
Obviously closed for the duration

Library of Congress

Prints & Photographs Reading Room

Albums of Photographs, 1850-present

https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/photoalbums.html

The Prints & Photographs Division (P&P) acquired its first photo album as early as 1869--a volume documenting the construction of the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington, DC. More albums are added each year

ghostcount
19-Jun-2020, 15:16
The two most often cited historic Wet Plate Collodion manuals are Towler’s “The Silver Sunbeam” and Waldack & Neff’s “ Treatise of Photography On Collodion”, both of which can be found on the web. Both contain a great deal of useful information, though parsing the content requires some effort, as they are definitely written in the style of the period.

Towler, The Silver Sunbeam (https://archive.org/details/silversunbeampra00towluoft/mode/2up)

Waldack & Neff, Treatise of Photography On Collodion (https://ia600200.us.archive.org/3/items/treatiseofphotog00waldrich/treatiseofphotog00waldrich.pdf)

Indeed, great books. Though, grains and drams still makes me stumble sometimes.:o

Tin Can
27-Jul-2020, 04:22
"The ‘wet collodion’ process became widely used in astronomical photography from 1851"

Source below

http://www.catchersofthelight.com/catchers/post/2012/06/05/Origins-of-Astrophotography#:~:text=The%20'wet%20collodion'%20process%20became,faint%20as%20the%20sixth%20magnitude.