Anyone know history?

[bruce501]

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Found with box of glass negatives.........DuPont, maybe?

[Jim Noel]

Why do you think DuPont? They did make film before and during WWII, but I don't remember them ever being involved with cyanotype.
This information sheet is obviously for cyanotype and very likely not associated with the glass plates at all. The directions are almost exactly as I gave my students learning this part of the craft.

[IanG]

Azuro was sold for contact printing off glass plates, usually to make cheap postcards, as you only needed sunlight and water - no chemicals. It appears to have been sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co who sold dry plates under the Roebuck brand name.

Ian

[bruce501]

Thanks Jim,
Certianly enlightens me. DuPont just jumped into my head. Could be any manufacturer...I'll keep searching.
Best,
Bruce

[bruce501]

Thanks Ian,
Sears sold everything under the sun at one time or another!!
Best
Bruce

[IanG]

It's pre-WWI probably 1910-12.

Sears 1912 catalogue:

Azuro Blue Print Paper.

Blue Print Paper affords the simplest process known for producing a photographic print, as it requires no chemicals of any kind. It It is simply printed by sunlight in the ordinary manner and then washed in clear water which completes the process of making a finished blue print photograph.

The prints are a brilliant blue and white color, and the extreme simplicity, low cost and beautiful results make this paper well worthy of the popularity it has always possessed. Azuro Blue Print Paper is an unusually high grade paper, coated on the very best quality of imported stock, and the prints possess a brilliancy, depth and clearness that is unequalled by other blue print papers

This Paper is available in hermetically sealed cans, twenty-four sheets to a can

No. 20H1755 Azurol Blue Print Paper

Size
3½ x 3½
3¼ x 4¼
4 x 5
3¼ x 5½
5 x 7
8½ x 8½
8 x 10


Azuro Blue Print Post Cards.

No. 20H1749 Blue Print Post Cards afford a very economical and simple method of making souvenir postcards from your own negatives, They are printed by sunlight and finished by washing in water, just the same as any other style of blue paper. No chemicals of any kind are required.
Put up in hermetically scaled tin cans, each can containing twenty-four cards. Price, per can . . . . . . . 19c

Ian

[Jac@stafford.net]

Thank you Ian for the most informative post!

Others might enjoy the work of Henry Peter Bosse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Peter_Bosse). Seeing his work on a wall (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26260138@N02/2465369948/) is rather enlightening in this particular gallery because one of his photos was taken from a location (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Wagon_Bridge_Winona_Minnesota_1892.JPG) one can see through the gallery window.

[bruce501]

Thank You, Ian
Interesting info.........The Glass negatives that I found this with are from 1886-1896. Would not be too far out of realm of somebody getting ready to print the treasure trove of images.
Thanks again!
Bruce