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Vol |
Year |
Subjects |
v1
p30
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1853
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Summary of early discoveries, with
list of sources for reference
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from Edinburgh New Philosophical
Journal - 1839.
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v1
p116
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1853
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Letter
from F Maxwell Lyte
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v1
p139
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8/11/1853
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Letter from Henry Brown,
Edinburgh - Dark Tent
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v1
p164
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21/1/54
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Letter,
26/12/1853,
from Mr McCraw, 90 Princes
Street, Edinburgh -
collodion processing
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v1
p172
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6/2/1854
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EW Dallas writes from 31
India Street, Edinburgh
- On the recovery of Waste Silver
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v1
p177 |
21/3/1854 |
From Edinburgh we hear of a Photographic Exhibition.
Among the pictures, the calotype portraits and proofs executed many
years since by Mr DO Hill, and the late Mr R
Adamson, are spoken of highly
for artistic effect. The
collection contains about 300 pictures.
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v1
p210 |
2/3/1854 |
CGH Kinnear wrote from Edinburgh
concerning
marbling in the waxed paper process
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v2
p55 |
24/9/1854 |
Letter from F Maxwell Lyte, Luz, Hautes Pyrenees
- on restoring collodion.
F
Maxwell Lyte went on to become a regular exhibitor in PSS Exhibitions.]
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v2
p95 |
3/12/1854 |
Letter from F Maxwell Lyte at Hôtel de France Argèles, Hautes Pyrénées
He spoke in favour of the collodion process, in response to Mr
Shadwell’s earlier letter to Journal.
“I
must still entertain my old opinion that paper is the process for views,
albumen for copying paintings, sculptures &c., also for small
stereoscopic subjects - and
that to these two should be granted an entire monopoly of inanimate
subjects; whilst on the other hand, the Daguerreotype and the collodion
process we should hand over (as in fact we are compelled
to do), all such work as may require quickness of action; - the
comparative merits of these two processes for portraiture remaining, as it
ever must be, pure matter of taste."
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v2
p191 |
31/5/1855 |
John Patrick writes from Leven - Collodion Blunders.
John
Patrick became a professional photographer in Edinburgh.
“The phenomenon that Mr Notcutt “thinks might be called
fogging”, is not caused by an alkaline bath, but simply by too much
light in the dark room or slide. His
statements are strictly and truly put forth, to my own experience, because
in every town or village I travel to I am visited by the same annoyance,
until I get every hole made impervious to our best friend and worst enemy;
and by using a candle with a sheet or two of yellow paper round it, all
troublesome deposits will vanish."
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v3
p17 |
21/4/1856 |
Several important events in Photographic History deserve
chronicling this month. The
first is the establishment of the
Photographic Society of Scotland, under the
sanction of the honoured name of Sir David Brewster as President.
Under such auspices, and with the number of men distinguished in
science and art in Edinburgh who take an interest in the subject,
important additions may be expected to be made through their means to our
knowledge of Photography.
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v3
p48 |
21/4/1856 |
The
It
was announced that the number of members at that date amounted to 75
Sir
David Brewster gave an Address:
“Photography is pre-eminently a
scientific art: it requires
no particular genius in its cultivators.
The painter and the sculptor may bring into the works those high
gifts which qualify them for the practice of their divine art.
There is no poetry in the pencil of the sun. The photographer cannot separate what is beautiful from
what is common. ..."
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v3
p239 |
21/3/1857 |
Report of the first AGM of PSS - held on 10/3/1857
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v3
p257 |
21/3/1857
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Report of the meeting on 10/3/1857 at which Thomas Rodger of St
Andrews read his paper The
Collodion Process
Thomas
Rodger went on to become a professional photographer in Edinburgh.
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v3
p304 |
1857
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Report of the meeting, 12/5/1857 at which Mr
Tunny explained
his new mode of printing Stereoscopic Transparencies on Glass Plate with
Wet Collodion.
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v4
p2 |
1857
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PSS
meeting, 9/6/1857
Paper by James Ross to on Stereoscopic
Photography
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v4
p15 |
1857
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PSS
meeting 14/7/1857
Papers by Cosmo Innes and Colin Sinclair
Exhibition of pictures by Mr Tunny and Mr McCraw.
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v4
p48 |
1857
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21/9/57
edition - letter from Mr McCraw at 90 Princes Street, and letter from
James Ross supporting Mr
McCraw.
Mr McCraw claims to be the patentee and inventor of the New Porcelain
Process - despite claims by Mr Tunny.
Mr McCraw also accuses Mr Tunny of falsely claiming to be the
inventor of the collodion process, giving a slice of the credit to Le
Gray.
William McCraw claims to have taught the collodion process to Mr Tunny,
using Mr Archer’s mode and Mr Archer’s materials in 1851.
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v4
p65 |
1857
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Mr
Tunny’s long reply to Mr McCraw’s letter - disputing Mr
McCraw’s assertions.
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v4
p74 |
1857
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Announcement of PSS
2nd exhibition.
Very wisely, the white margin to the pictures is limited in width
to about 2 ½ inches.
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v4
p83 |
11/10/1857
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PSS Meeting
- Mr
Brewster’s Paper
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v4
p116 |
15/12/1857
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PSS Meeting
- Mr Kinnear’s Paper
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v4
p138 |
12/1/1858
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PSS
Special General
Meeting + Mr Sang’s Paper
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v4
p159 |
1858
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PSS Meeting
- Professor Klelland’s Paper
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v4
p175 |
22/3/1858
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PSS AGM
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v4
p198 |
1858
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PSS
Meeting, 13/4/1858
including Exhibition of Equipment
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v4
p214 |
1858
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PSS Meeting,
11/5/1858
Mr Orange’s Paper
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v4
p230 |
1858
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PSS Meeting,
8/6/1858
Mr Colin Sinclair’s Paper
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v5
p73 |
1858
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PSS
Meeting, 9/11/1858
Items exhibited by John
Sang and Mr Moffat
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v5
p104 |
1858
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PSS
Meeting, 14/12/1858
Mr Raven’s Paper
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